Chindogu Designs
Chindogu
Chindogu is a design practice where you create useless products. They literally can’t have any real use. It helps you think out of the box – big time.
Our design was a water bottle with openings in both ends. We also made a pretty useless fashion bag for the bottle.
The Process
The reason Chindogu is relevant is because of its affordances for you as a designer. It is not so much the product as the process. All you do is brainstorm, and there are no boundaries. There are ten basic rules though (read them here).
So it was more of a lesson of thinking out of the box with your brainstorming and doing rapid design.
There was another lesson in this: That stupid and crazy ideas can spark the imagination for many useful ones. Hence it was hard picking the one idea which was truly useless (the first rule of Chindogu).
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Chindogu
Chindogu is a design practice where you create useless products. They literally can’t have any real use. It helps you think out of the box – big time.
Our design was a water bottle with openings in both ends. We also made a pretty useless fashion bag for the bottle.
The Process
The reason Chindogu is relevant is because of its affordances for you as a designer. It is not so much the product as the process. All you do is brainstorm, and there are no boundaries. There are ten basic rules though (read them here).
So it was more of a lesson of thinking out of the box with your brainstorming and doing rapid design.
There was another lesson in this: That stupid and crazy ideas can spark the imagination for many useful ones. Hence it was hard picking the one idea which was truly useless (the first rule of Chindogu).
Gallery
