K-flip is a coffee maker that aims to solve a problem for airplane travelers: having a clean and efficient way of drinking coffee both on the go and during hotel stays.
Bringing your own coffee maker instead of buying coffee can save travelers a lot of money - not to mention safety from the germs and grime many hotel coffeemakers hold. However, most preexisting coffeemakers are heavy, require being plugged in, or are mainly built for camping.
In summary, K-Flip is a coffeemaker for travelers that is portable, light, and multi-flavor.
The duration of this project was around ten weeks and consisted of research, product pitching, ideation and iteration, prototyping, and finally modeling of the final rendering on Solidworks. In the first and longest stage, we interviewed users and presented those findings, as well as created a user persona with those findings. We also analyzed the market and compiled a benchmarking table with the data.
In the second stage of the project, we finalized our how-might-we statements, as well as studied the product from the user, business, and technology perspective. We also initialized design concepts for its physical design.
In the iteration and ideation phase, we sketched out, implemented, modeled our ideas, and finally modeled our ideas in Solidworks.
