SCOTSMAN 2

The topic of this blog is going to be the project that I was given by Product design engineering course. It is called SCOTSMAN 2 and is based on the briefs made up from the previous project.

In SCOTSMAN 1 we were allocated groups and had to come up with a topic in which we were interested in and was a good cause to develop a product for, with insights into where a product could be developed. We needed to create a brief for the topic which would then be carried on to SCOTSMAN 2.

 SCOTSMAN stands for:
S-solution
C-competition
O-only me
T-timescale
S-size
M-money
A-authority
N-need

This definition was needed to be used to show that the topic which was chosen was viable. Once this had been achieved people chose one of the 8 topics for continuing onto SCOTSMAN 2.

The topics were Fishermen, food shortage, diabetes, flooding in the UK, smoking, drinking, dakar rally and grow your own food. From these topics I chose Diabetes, I felt it was the most interesting topic and one which I could develop a product which would be useful.

From the brief there were 3 different groups in which we could focus on, children, teenagers and the elderly all with their own different issues to do with dealing with diabetes.
The brief also states:
'In summary when redesigning diabetes testing, monitoring and administrating
equipment focus closely on what the specific user requires, how the whole
process can be streamlined, how it can be linked to appropriate data to aid the
experience and how best to integrate with emerging technology to enhance
usability.'

I decided to focus on all 3 different groups to start off with.

To start of my research I got in contact with Morag Ramsay from Diabetes Scotland, to see if I could get a meeting with her and talk to her about the different areas, that she as a diabetic and someone who has personal knowledge of the equipment, would know which needs developed on.