Comments 4

  • First of all, thank you for your ideas, your designs, and the different perspectives you brought to the brief. Each of you reflected your own interpretation, and this diversity truly enriches the process. However, we have a few points of feedback to help align the concepts more closely with the brief:

    1. First idea
    Your concept aims to stabilize tea glasses with magnets on the tray and coasters, making carrying easier. You frame the product around Turkish tea culture and transform ‘Kilim’ patterns into a mosaic applied to the tray and glasses.

    However:

    Older adults are not expected to carry tea trays in our context, younger people do it. Our problem space begins after the tea has already been served to them.

    If you want to use ‘Kilim’ patterns, the motifs on your glasses do not match this aesthetic. We can share authentic Turkish kilim pattern examples to support you.

    The tulip-shaped extra cup is visually nice, but in Turkish tea culture we do not drink anything alongside tea. This idea would actually fit a coffee ritual much better.

  • 2. Second idea
    Your concept seems to make holding the tea glass easier by changing the way it is gripped.

    However:
    This alters a deeply established drinking habit, and people generally do not like to change their tea-drinking rituals.
    Because of that, it may be difficult for users to integrate this into everyday life, which conflicts with the “blend into daily life easily” requirement in our brief.

    Still, your use of çini (Iznik tile) patterns is cute and culturally meaningful.

  • 3. Third idea
    Very cute, but unfortunately out of scope for our brief.

    We really enjoyed your presentation , thank you so much for the effort you put into it! We especially loved the logo, it’s such a thoughtful and beautiful touch 🤍 Elinize sağlık!

    About the feedback: we wanted to emphasize a few key points that stood out.
    Our main goal is for the product to be inclusive, not something made only for elderly people. This way, older users won’t feel separated or different from others.
    Ease of grip and simple usability are very important factors for us.

    Also, it’s essential that the product adapts to Turkish rituals and habits without changing or disrupting them ,it should feel natural and familiar in use.

    Thanks again for your great work!

  • Hello,

    My name is Filiz, and I am a member of Team 10. While reviewing the other groups’ projects on the blog, I encountered your design.

    It is my understanding that your project aims to utilize and make reference to traditional Turkish kilim patterns. I find this to be a very thoughtful approach.

    It occurred to me that I have a resource in my possession that explains these traditional patterns. I just wanted to offer to share it with you, as it might be helpful for your project.
    https://cdn.sanity.io/files/cctd4ker/production/fcdaf22d2d3c182ad03ceed7b67db9331f5d8977.pdf

Leave a Reply

➤