Services
Do you need someone with design skills, engineering knowledge, project experience, broad IT and CAD literacy, and a passion and drive for sustainable innovation to contribute to your design, architectural or community project?
Zero-waste can offer all this. Zero-waste is a new design engineering initiative committed to pursuing research, speculative or commercial projects with an emphasis on sustainable thinking.
In addition to its in-house projects, Zero-waste is always interested in collaborating with businesses or individuals, on small or large projects.
Primary interests:
- Sustainable product and systems design
- Appropriate/intermediate technologies
- Man-machine interaction, tangible computer interfaces
- Open source product design - investigating the dialogue between user and designer & re-thinking their traditional roles.
Tools:
- Sketching - [thumbnail drawings, rendered presentation drawings, developmental sketches]
- Physical Modelling - [proof of concept & exploratory]
- CAD - [Solidworks, Inventor, Solid Edge, 3DS Max, Rhinoceros, Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, Flash, Dreamweaver]
- Rapid prototyping/manufacture if required
Methods:
- User-centred inclusive design - [extensive user research, usability testing, co-design, stakeholder analysis]
- Problem led, convergent design process - [problem definition, idea generation, concepting, design development, refinement, production]
- Iterative prototyping, testing and improvement
- Divergent research & experimentation
