Portfolio Review

Hi Fiena, nice to see your work here.

You are a strong industrial designer with good concepting abilities. In some of your projects, especially with the stool design, I see a tendency that you stick to one idea or line of thought too much without especially explaining why you did this. As a designer you need to have this urge of finding just that right solution that fits the specific aspects of the context, and research this very thoroughly. Some of your ideas are not very original or realistic, while others are great and quite decently researched. I also want to see proof of your ideas’ functioning and desirability, you can do this with a test at the end of your projects providing both qualitative and quantitative results. In terms of storytelling you could go deeper by designing not just for practical value but focusing more on higher biopsychosocial needs. See for example Maslow’s pyramid. You start designing social behavior, human interactions and experiences enabled by your product rather than the product as the core of your projects.