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A Student's Take on Designing an Electric Drill for Non-Professional Users
This stylish power tool improves the user experience and product semantics for non-professional users. The drill is designed by Yu-Chung Chang for Electrolux in Birmingham City University.
Design Team
Yu-Chung Chang
Yu-Chung Chang
Electrolux Drill
Yu-Chung Chang
Unlock trigger
Yu-Chung Chang
Drills straight, collects dust, shows depth
Yu-Chung Chang
Working with LED
Yu-Chung Chang
Screw holder
Yu-Chung Chang
Standing on table
Yu-Chung Chang
Charger
Yu-Chung Chang
Luxury packaging
Yu-Chung Chang
Luxury packaging
This electric drill is designed for non-professional users. The drill's stylish form is meant to improve user experience and emotion.
The product is designed for maintaining, repairing, hand crafting, and other working activities. The plastic shells of the product are made out of moulded Polypropylene (PP).
The user is a non-professional power tool user who needs to overcome the fear of using traditional power tools. The drill is designed for home use and to appeal to people with a desire to own attractive and quality appliances.
The drill has several special features that make it both intuitive and enjoyable to use. The lock of the trigger works as a dustpan and ruler for dust collecting, and it also shows how deep you're drilling. The stylish knob of the electric drill provides users a wonderful experience when changing the speed or direction of the rotation of the drill bit. With the addition of an outer casing, a matte layer was added to the surface for user comfort, anti-slipping and overall aesthetic.
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But will it chooch?
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I like this design overall. I would buy it. The one thing I would reconsider is the packaging. While your design does seem to elevate it to a more "luxury" market compared to what is out there, it lacks a sustainability that could last for longer period of time. I would like to see it have some type of clam shell packaging that doesn't get separated and holds up better after years of use.
Two primary issues: guide interferes with access to chuck, and moving parts made of plastic. There are drill guides on the market. This does not entirely eliminate drilling debris. Recommend redesign with detachable guide which has metal sliding parts. Has to withstand tool drops of 6 ft. without breaking or going out of adjustment.
As a power tool designer with 20+ years experience, I see this as an excellent feature concept - while it needs more refinement in the handle and trigger forms, access to the chuck and clamshell materials, those are easy mods to make - the real magic here are the benefits to the user. Too many designs don't take the user and his/her tasks into consideration but the designer did just that in this instance - the intimidation factor is addressed by pre-setting the depth gauge and by using the screw holder if needed and the mess factor is addressed with the integrated dust-catch. Well done for any designer at a student level.
No obvious to me how one changes drill bit in this design. If this is an auto-chuck, the user needs to grip the chuck which would be difficult with the holder blocking half the chuck. Drill bits also come in different sizes and lengths and the depth gauge needs to be able to "zero" the depth based on the drill bit length and then retracts to set the depth. Adding a movable pointer should do the job.
I'm the designer of this project. Many thanks, your opinion matters, I will improve and modify it.
I so want one. What i love best is the charging stand. Every hand drill I've ever owned has lost it's charger. And this is cute. SO important to us fem weekend fixer uppers.
Thanks for your interest.
i have seen many of these drill ideas for non professional drill uses come and go. A few of the issues I see with this is the price tag for the materials and complicated injection molding. DIY home owners are not going to want to pay MPP prices for their tools. Secondly as mentioned before dust collection is a good idea but there seems to be an issue with the interface of drill bits and different size fastners. The iPod jog dial on the back is an interesting idea although the ux requires the user to rely on numbers for the clutch which new users have a hard time with on existing products. To make the drill more approachable for new users I would stay away from all the parting lines and keep simple ergonomic forms. Visa via Festool
Many thanks for your suggestion, that's really helpful.
This will sound harsh - the packaging is lacking in my opinion. So much attention given to the drill, and so little to the packaging. For the desire to create a luxury drill, the packaging is reminiscent of a boxed board game.
I should have added that a worthy solution for packaging would have been to re-think the storage case. Right now, most are well-engineered roto-molded cases, that with a little more thought, could really have been brought forward and re-imagined for this concept. People need to store tools in fairly abrasive environments - I feel a case is a minimum for a tool of this nature.
It's true, the quality may improve if the packaging goes better. Thanks for your points.
I assume the point of this would be to try and sell people proprietary bits that are exactly the same length as the ineffective dust pan that's going to tell them how far they've drilled into the thing whose dimensions they know nothing about after they remembered to use the superfluous on/off switch on their terrifying GI Joe ray gun that barely fits in their hand. This is how people end up driving for Uber.
Great work!
Excellent!!!