Cereal Maker

Discovery Phase

The first step of the design thinking process is to interview people you want your project to be focused on and to get answers that will make things easier, this is called the Discovery Phase.

Interpretation Phase

The second step is to create your drivers and constraints. Drivers are what the users want on the project. For example, my users wanted my project to be easy to use, durable and fast. Constraints are the challenges that you need to face in your project. For example, My challenges are how do I make the cereal maker durable, How do I make the users satisfied, how much time would it be satisfying for the cereal maker to take. This is called the Interpretation Phase.

Ideation Phase

The third step is to make sketches with your users' requests, your drivers, and constraints. In the beginning quantity matters, not quality so just make as many sketches as possible this time, the more sketches you do, the better! after that you seek feedback from someone and rate your sketches and what sketches will be helpful for the next step which is instead of quantity this time, it is quality. Then your users can rate your drawings and tell you how to improve until the users are satisfied with your design. This is called the Ideation Phase.

Prototype Phase

The last step is to make your design just like your final sketch in many ways. For example, you could do it on an online 3D site like tinkercad and do it there or you can do it manually until you finish the design you can just turn it into a place where you can post it or you can just give it to your users and see what they think, it is really simple.

anything to sustain a cereal box, for example, a really strong string

Cereal

Cereal Bowl

Cereal Box

Paper tubes (prefer the toilet paper type)

Tinfoil (so it doesn't get dirty)

Building materials like KEVA planks, wood, cardboard

Tape (to tape the tinfoil with the building materials)

The best location for this cereal maker is a flat place where it isn't bumpy, places this could work are the floor or a large table because those places are some of the thinnest and less rocky or bumpy places you can find.

When you reach the location that the cereal maker will be located, focus on the bottom part. I am going to use KEVA planks, tinfoil, cardboard, and tape for the entire project, but the supplies for your cereal maker are your choice. You need to make a similar thing to a straight staircase if you are using the same ingredients as I do, which will cost you at least 100 KEVA planks. Until you use them all start placing tinfoil and tape them on the KEVA planks. After you do that, tape toilet paper tubes you can find in your house and tape them on top of the tinfoil you placed before and continue building a staircase until you either run out of KEVA planks or you are satisfied with the height.

This is the last step before the cereal maker is done, it is recommended if you still have KEVA planks and tinfoil because if not, you will have a harder time in this step. First, make a platform that is long so the cereal box will fall on the platform, not the ramp. Second, get some durable string and tape it on the cereal box, a way to know this works is to grab the string and bounce it in the air about two times. Then, get another box and paste it on the end of the platform and make sure it is heavy because if not the box will fall with the cereal box. Lastly, paste the string with the heavy box, the heavy box should also be taped because if not, how will it be able to hold itself?

that is the 3 steps to how to make this cereal maker.