Weekly Blogs on Creativity and Innovation

  (Kashyap, n.d.)   As we are going into week 4, and progressing toward the Design Challenge, it is crucial to have a plan or a consistent daily schedule to follow. Gantt chart can be a great planning tool and is helpful in planning and scheduling tasks and projects. History of Gantt Chart Gantt charts have an interesting history. This management tool was originated in the 1800s when a Polish engineer Karol Adamiecki invented a graph called harmonograph. The harmonograph was invented to systematically display the production schedules of the factory workers throughout the day. But at that time, these findings were only published in Polish and Russian language.   Thereafter, in 1910, Henry Laurence Gantt, a management consultant, and an engineer, was also working on a similar concept. He designed a chart to help manufacturing managers plan a consistent schedule for their work. With time, it evolved into Gantt charts and therefore named after Henry Gantt, t...

In this semester, we are given the topic to design (solution and process) something which is helpful and plays a vital role in the health and wellness of a world in need. The design may include any type of design that helps people stay safe, connect with others, and face the challenges ahead. There were three sub-topics to choose from. I choose Human-Centric Principle: Product/Industrial/Furniture design. I decided to design furniture that is comforting and embraces social distancing. The worldwide spread of COVID-19 has affected our daily lives and has changed our way of living. Being safe is now the fundamental need of the hour. Our whole idea of living, working, and going out is now distinct and social distancing, isolation, and being self-sufficient is now the new normal. The world is now slowly adapting to life amidst the pandemic and designers are rethinking ways to provide designs and innovations that fits the new world. To design furniture for the covid-19 pandemic, I needed to...

  Hello and welcome to my very first blog post.   I am Anushka Puniyani, a Product Design student at Asia Pacific University, Malaysia. I am originally from India and I am a creative, imaginative, and intuitive person.    It’s indeed my very first time writing a blog and I started writing this as an assignment for one of my modules- Creativity and Innovation. I am quite intrigued to write my thoughts and views on a professional platform and I desire to learn and make the best out of it.    I feel that expressing your thoughts through either writing or speaking can both be very different experiences on their own. When you speak it’s more of a rapid thinking process, you pick keywords and speak what comes to your mind. On the other hand, writing about the same thing is a more detailed thinking process where you think while you write, and as you are writing you imagine the scenario in your head and these whole different perspectives come to your mind. I e...