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Andrew Bea
Gabriel ly
Henry Treloar
Aryetta Pazpinis
Rory Wilson

Project 2: PSS

Rational

The aim of this project for me was to design a community based product where the community members with the same interests can meet to socialise and enjoy a healthy lifestyle.

The ‘Game On’ sports hire PSS is exactly what the name describes, sporting goods hire machine where by a user can sign up at www.gameon.com and enjoy the service that is provided. The machine provides a service of rugby, soccer balls and cones for game set out. The product contains 4 soccer balls, 3 rugby balls and 20 cones. The cones are accessed from the rear of the product near to the ball return doors. The cones are dispensed by a spring-loaded system where when a cone is removed another is pushed forward to replace it. When removing and returning the cones a push button on the end of the holding area stops the cones from all just falling out.

Another feature of this product is the compressor unit that is used to fill up the balls when collecting. This is operated by the user and has a pressure sensor in the nozzle to tell how much pressure is in the ball and the fills the ball automatically to the predetermined PSI level for the sports equipment.

This keeps the steps of using the product down to a minimum and makes it easier for the user to interact with the product. This eliminates the chance of damage from over inflation.

The system component of the PSS is the website/app where users visit to sign up and use the system. Consisting of a main page where you can sign up look at locations of product placement, about the product icon, and the sign in icon.

Once signed in users can search via a postcode for the closest ‘Game On’ product to that location and see what games are too play or book a time to hire.

I set out to solve the problem of too much hassle joining community sports based on the barrier of long term commitments and set days for training and games.

This system moulds around your lifestyle so users can chose the days that they would like to play, instead of fitting lifestyle around fitness through sport.

The product although incredibly complex in design, is simple and sleek from the outside. It gives reliable visual cues to the users on how to use the product.  This makes the product an easy to use and hassle free for users

With this product I feel I have accomplished my aims and fully met the studio 3B brief assigned.