The concept was to create a product that had some personality. One that was fun, had curves that were easy to hold, in fact that wanted to be held. The features of safety and ergonomics and those that Standards imposed, were to drive the look and feel of the product, not be tacked on. A selection of the hand-drawn conceptual sketches initially presented to the client. Any designer knows that hand sketches can fudge reality quite conveniently, making the impossible look fantastic.
Sketches are a quick way of generating ideas.
They give a broad outline to how the product could look, but omit specifics. For this SolidWorks and PhotoWorks were used. SolidWorks and PhotoWorks allowed us to build the products, check they conformed to Standards and had a family image without leaving the computer. Modelling of the adaptor base shape. Before starting to model any of the products, careful analysis of the common features was assessed.