Interested in working in UX, but no idea what roles are available to you as a trained Industrial Designer? We chatted with 3 designers with experience for ideas
"I don't see what the equivalent psi to an air-filled tire is. Which is important, because people and bikes weigh different amounts!Also don't see a promo video of anyone riding their product on a bike the way bikes are actually ridden. 5mph in a conference hall doesn't constitute real-world. How well does it corner downhill?"
"Looks impressive and certainly handy. How the bolts that connect the handle to the main body will hold up to twisting without loosening over time, is my nitpick. "
""Build locally" sounds wonderful at first, until considering the premium cost for domestic manufacturing, so that your clever gadget will be undercut immediately by new overseas sourcing. More to the article's point if your gadget is complicated you are probably duplicating in parallel the kind of factory infrastructure that already exists somewhere else in the world, making any carbon-savings irrelevant. Local manufacture is like a meme from 2020, at least for any designed goods that 'move the needle'. "
"Yes to the 'house drill' ^. Mine has a pivoting handle so it takes up less space in a kitchen junk drawer. We don't have to resort to 'tool snobbery' to see how poorly functioning this concept would be. All formal exercise, minimal function. "