Timothy Kraulis
My name is Timothy and I love design. What drew me to industrial design was mixing problem solving with research and human centered design to create amazing products. With every new project I strive to learn new skills and explore new methods of manufacturing. From sketching to model making industrial design always has something new to explore.
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The Four Essential Pillars for Design Excellence
The four essential pillars encompass human-centric design approach and the understanding of full-bodied, three dimensional physical interaction of user, product and environment. The projects generate innovative solutions using research-driven, evidence-based designs which focus on the user experience.
Enhancement of Human Lifestyle
Lifestyle enhancement comes through three elements that aim to help the user keep a healthier diet.
Access, transportation, and education all contribute to the Flavour Fleet’s impact on residents. Making sure residents have access to healthy ingredients, having easy transport to get to good food and the knowledge of how to use the ingredients once they have been purchased. Removing barriers to healthy meals makes it as easy as possible to support a healthy lifestyle.
Human-Interaction & User-Centric Design
Education is at the forefront of the Flavour Fleet System. Providing information through the menu screen with additional resources online.
Large and easy to read text on the screen and the labels with QR codes for further learning. The Flavour Fleet system also assists the sponsoring supermarket with a custom cart to keep the produce bins organized within their stores. Reducing organizational challenges while being a comfortable way to move produce bins to the trailers.
Ergonomics & Human Factors Design
Flavour Fleet trailers take comfort and safety into account when creating the shopping environment, protecting the users from the sun is key to a safe shopping experience.
While the produce bins are sized to be easy to carry, they can sometimes be heavy. To help with this strain a soft touch handle has been included that can adjust to the needs of the users in a swiveling motion.
Sustainability & Social Responsibility
The materials used in the Flavour Fleet system are produced and coated to be long lasting requiring little repairs.
A strong, recyclable steel frame holds up an anodized aluminum shell to protect the food from the environment while staying non-toxic throughout manufacturing and use.
FLAVOUR FLEET - Food Supply to Lower Income Communities
Project Summary
The Flavour Fleet trailer system offers support to lower income communities where it is desperately needed. Food deserts are an increasing problem throughout the world and lower the quality of life of the surrounding area. Lack of local access to healthy and affordable food has wide impacts on the life of a resident and can increase the cost of transportation and increase their grocery bill. Without access to proper nutritious food sources, a resident often turns to convenience stores or fast food chains which become a challenge when maintaining a healthy diet. The Flavour Fleet system assists with these challenges by deploying to food deserts with food from a sponsoring grocery store, then assisting to educate the residence with food preparation.
Thesis Summary Motion Presentation
The Flavour Fleet trailer system is a mobile food station designed to improve the economic and health of a food desert.
Thesis Visual Presentation
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Thesis Development Process
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3D Design Development & Modeling
CAD Modeling Video
The CAD models were made using Solidworks 2022 and KeyShot 2023 with decals made in Adobe Illustrator.
Physical Model Video
A look into the 1:12 scale model of the Flavour Fleet trailer. Constructed with many 3D prints, printed decals and spray paint.
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