Project 2 Reflection

This project is about pss, i personal feel very interesting and challenge. The being i through this pss system is very interesting and fun but after many times try i feel very tired, i start feeling of very difficult, because the pss not only design a product also have to design a useful, workable system. The challenge is the system, how it going to work, help the environnent and meet the people’s need.

My understanding of product service system is a business model that offers service and product to address sustainability in production and consumption. this product service system have to reduce environmental impact that meet human’s need and change/increase benefit of target behaviour.

Our product service system is to reduce bottle water wast. We design a water station to encourage more people to use reusable water containers for daily use. We are trying to change their behaviour of using disposal water bottles because the research shows that disposal water bottles have great impact on the earth. With our pss people can refill their water bottle when they walk out for work, school or outdoor sports activities. Our pss product locate at the lobby which is beneficial to inform people to bring water with them every day an avoid buying bottle water. Our pss also design a rang of reusable bottle for user, the bottle have 3 type, one for adult, one for kids and one for whole family. they all come with different colour which is to meet different user’s preference.

The difficulty of this project is the linkage of product service system and product. Is very challenge that designing not just a pure product but product within a service system. The way that we find out is make sure the system is going to work and help the user first then we following the system to find out what product suit for the system. Frisly, we draw out a mind map see what kinds of opportunity we have to create a product service system. We want to focus on reduce bottle waste so we decide a system to tell user use less disposal water bottle and encourage them drink more pure water. Following that idea we design a water station to suit the system.

After this project i think industrial designers should consider product service system among their solution finding strategies because pss can reduce environmental impact and increase benefit for user. There for pss should consider more in the futures time.

The most that i like of designing a pss is the advantages that pss can help user and tell them what is right and valuable then change their bad consumption behaviors. The least i like about designing the pss is the disadvantage of pss that have to suit for every user and have to consider about the consumption, production and environnemental friendly. which is very difficult and challenge.

This project is a group work through this i learn how to work together with group members and we take the challenge and solve problems together. We discusses and analysais the pss opportunity and together design an suitable product for this pss. This exercise let me understand what is pss and the important of it for our society and we should use more pss on the future design to help environnent create a better life for users.