Blog Entry 2

 hi everyone! i'm here to update yall about what my group has learnt, as well as what we've done for our SCAMPER process, as well as our COWS decision matrix!

before our lesson on both SCAMPER, I was really confused on what it was supposed to stand for, but now i understand that the letters stand for

S - SUBSTITUTE

C - COMBINE

A - ADAPT

M - MODIFY

P - PUT TO ANOTHER USE

E - ELIMINATE

R - REVERSE

in terms of my group's SCAMPER process, we decided to focus mainly on the chemicals and materials that made up both the actual substance within the deodorant or the can.

I find the process of using SCAMPER useful as it makes me think about how we should try and improve our initial product based on the 7 letters, which also allows me to think about brand new ideas for our product.

During the idea screening process, we also used the feasibility table to see if our ideas could be realistically produced. The table also allows us to quickly decide which ideas that we came up with during the SCAMPER process should be discontinued as they would either be too expensive, too unsafe or just straight up illegal. Here are our final ideas that we decided on using the feasibility tables!

After deciding on our final 3 ideas out of the initial few that we had while using SCAMPER, we made use of the COWS decision matrix, which we learnt about during Materials for Design (MFD), which we studied in Year 1 Semester 1. We found it difficult when trying to decide which criteria should have a higher percentage than the other criteria. This is because there are times where we felt that all the criteria are equally important, but eventually we finally managed to settle on a percentage weightage that we found to make sense.

The table below shows the weightage of the criteria, as well as our reasonings

After deciding on the criteria, as well as considering our reasons for selecting said criteria, we made the following COWS decision matrix.

overall, this process of creating both the feasibility analysis table as well as the COWS decision matrix really helped us decide on what to do with out product 😃