Mindful dustbuster — NINAD SHITOOT

Mindful Dustbuster - Memetic Product Design

This product is designed as a part of memetic product design study wherein the complete design process takes inspiration from the users lifestyle and their emotions. These memetic aspects guide the design process and creation of the product.

This is a dustbuster that I designed for the mindful female. To relate to the mindful female user, I started the design process by making collages about their lifestyle, their emotions and the memetic aspects of products that they commonly use. These collages were referred for inspiration throughout the design process.

Lifestyle Collage

A collection visually depicting the aspects that define the lifestyle of a mindful person like house interiors, work, appearance and environment.

Emotions Collage

A collection showing emotive aspects of a mindful person like their expressions, their feelings and their actions.

Product Memetic Collage

A visual collection of memetic aspects of products commonly used by a mindful person. Memetic aspects can be the colour, shape, size or materials of the product.

To select a basic form for the dustbuster, random rotational shapes were created. A shape that most closely relates to a dustbuster and the collages was selected.

A physical form of the selected shape was created in the right scale and was then used for making assemblies. A number of random assemblies were made by combining the shape with different objects to get inspiration for the form of the dustbuster.