Project 1 - Peer Comments

YuShin Cori Eom
Christopher Hui
Stanley Darmawan
Fanru Wang
Lucinda Waters

Project 1: Experience Enrichment

Think about this - you work at a restaurant/bar and the orders are coming in. Your stress level is rising and your starting to forget orders and all you want is one second to calm down. What do you do?

I designed the Pebble Pop to give bar/waitstaff that one second to calm down. Being shaped like a river stone that looks like it could belong in a zen garden [albeit a stone with a flat bottom]. Ideally this bottle opener would be made of stainless steel so it would be cool to touch giving a calming effect. Although it's not the ideal tool to have behind the bar, the way in which you can use the bottle opener vary allowing you to release the urge to rip off that annoying customers head or imagine your punching that rowdy customer that's disrespecting you.

The flat surface is done on purpose so it sits on a bench easily and can be picked up straight away, and there are no parts that can hurt you. My target market being bar/waitstaff I purposely designed the bottle opener in such a manner that it would force them to slow down just that fraction to clear their heads but it can be used at home as much as it can be used at work.

On a whole this product enhances the experience of opening a bottle because the feel of the opener in your hand is smooth and fits the users grip easily.