Project #2: PRODUCT REDESIGN

The object that I chose is a standard travel pillow. I think it's a good idea, but doesn't always work how it's supposed to and could definitely be improved. I interviewed 5 people to see what they thought of it, and this is what I got:
















QUESTIONS:
1. How would you use it?
2. How often would it be used if you owned it?
3. Do you think it would be worth the money spent on it($2.50)?
4. What do you not like about it?
5. What would you change about it?
6. What are the most important properties about it that you would want to keep?
7. Where would you use it the most?


Interview 1: TRAVIS YOUNG
1. To relax with, maybe as a stress reliever, but definitely not to sleep on.
2. Probably whenever I'm bored, so a lot, all the time, probably strange hours of the night.
3. No, I probably wouldn't buy it.
4. It wants to be soft but it isn't, it's unpleasant, and the styrofoam's noisy.
5. I'd change the outer material, reduce the noise, and make it bigger because I wouldn't be using it as a pillow.
6. The feel of the general squishiness, and the color's not bad either.
7. I'd use it for travel. It's small so I could move around with it. I'd maybe use it at home with my dog.


Interview 2: RABIA BAJWA
1. I would probably use it for a headrest or armrest because it's soft enough and 'cloudy'.
2. Every single day, lol. When I'm reading books or watching TV, I'd use it to relax.
3. I think it would be, it's not so expensive and it would probably last a long time. It would definitely change my pillow at home.
4. When you hold it lightly it's like sand coming out of your hands, you can lose grip easily, the foam separates so if you put your head on it there's nothing there anymore, and it's noisy.
5. I'd use a different material inside because you can hear the noise and that would bother me if I heard it every time I moved the styrofoam. 
6. The shape, the outside material, and it's a convenient size. 
7. Trips. I'd use it in the car as a headrest or neck rest and I'd probably use it at home while relaxing. 


Interview 3: SHELBY FRYE
1.  I would lie on it and use it as a pillow. If I were on an airplane id use it as a neck rest or a cushion.
2. Probably quite a bit, like maybe a couple times a week.
3.  Yeah probably.
4. It’s a little small, and it’s not that rounded or formed to fit your neck. The material could be softer.
5. Change the shape, the material. Make it look a little better, and use a different fabric to make it more appealing. Add an outer slip that you could take off and wash.
6. I like the beads inside it.
7. Probably to sleep on during a trip the most.


Interview 4: AMY DOUGAN
1. I would use it to sleep with when I’m traveling or as a cushion at home.
2. Not very often, only when I’d travel.
3. Yes.
4. I don’t like the shape of it, it’s too full, and I don’t like the material.
5. I’d make it a U shape, I’d rather have cotton on the outside, make it less round, make it more oblong.
6. I like the inside material, and the fact that it’s a dark material
7. Wherever I was travelling; on a car, airplane, train, on long distance trips.


Interview 5: KATHLEEN IRELAND
1. I’d use it as a footrest and as a time waster.
2. Whenever I maybe had something more important to do but didn’t feel like doing it. Like right now.
3. Yes.
4. It’s too plain, and it doesn’t serve its purpose very well because it’s more entertaining as a procrastination tool than as a pillow.
5. Make it bigger, more comfy (different stuffing material), and more exciting with design and pattern.
6. It’s playfulness.
7. Anywhere and everywhere that I’d have it, if I had nothing more entertaining to fill my time with.