Product Study - 500 Words

My 500 Product Study Words:

The Watch:

A2 Coursework

A2 Product Deisgn Coursework

Setting the Scene Page:

Situation, Brief & Initial Spec: Research Page:Research Analysis:

Design Specification:

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Design/Development:

"I Should have never bought..."

I should have never have bought my Xbox.

I bought my Xbox to fill all my free time and cure my boredom problems, but looking back on that decision now, I regret making it. I used to be a big Sony fan, only buying Sony consoles such as the Playstation 2 (PS2), but against all my gut instinct the instant I came across a good bargain for an Xbox console, I went for it. I thought the Xbox has a range of different games than the PS2, I knew people that had one and had enjoyed it; and thought it was a nice looking console, black in the shape of a breeze block, with what looked to be comfortable chubby controls.


I regret buying this brick now I found the controls are really big almost like holding a rock they are heavy which made game play uncomfortable. The console itself may have looked stylish at the time, but now I find it looks outdated and doesn’t fit into its surroundings, and the console’s huge! It isn’t easy to put on cabinets due to its massive weight and size and along side the TV it stands out to much that was ok at the time.

After only a few weeks of use, the console started to die, thinking all my games were a DVD format and will not play them, just give me a poor message about how I need to purchase the DVD controller to play my games! And if by any slim chance I manage to play the game, it’s not worth it in the end after countless amounts of turning it on and off. If anything it makes life harder and more boring, also before I get round to saving the game it decides to pack up on me which is frustrating at the best of times, I don’t like Xbox’s, this was a waste of money, so many times it has come close to being hurled through the window or at the annoying next door neighbour I really do regret buying this awful thing.

Design History Poster

Here is my Design History poster representing the Barcelona chair desgned by Mies Van der Rohe: