Inspiring my team to innovate a 1000 year old tool,
with design-thinking

Clustering and discovering patterns

After clustering our personal and research insights and findings, we chose to focus on a few topics to ideate towards. These topics were found to be mostly direct and visually to solve, so it would stand out in a crowded online marketplace.

One of the topics also touched upon a deeper "prosumerism" trend, where certain aspiring cooks like to cook like a "主厨" or "the chef's way" .

Early sketches and concept ideation

then the ideation starts, thinking about options, solutions, materials... iterating with our product-management team.

Yes, these sketches are re-sketched for portfolio sake ;-). One day I might post the slightly more rough ones...

An anti-bacterial kitchen hanger, Gen-Z and Millenials don't buy full sets!

A soft ergonomic signifier how to operate, where to hold.

Anti scalding (melting) and does not slide in the pot or wok.

Same 360 anti sliding and scalding functionality.

360 optional gripping to easily use the back for scraping!