Project news – Decisions and more technology research

Last week we had the brainstorming session with the project group. We gathered a lot of nice ideas and chose the top ten ideas for technology study. In today’s meeting we compiled the results of the investigations together. It was time to decide what ideas really are respectable in coins and what ideas are possible, at least, essentially. After careful consideration we decided to discard some ideas, like Braille dot writing (small target group and being outdated), screen and sound in coins (proved too difficult with today’s technology and in this schedule). We will continue developing ideas of new coin materials, surface treatment with uncommon characteristics, electronics in coin, customization features and new additional applications for coins. Next week, we will decide what exactly we are beginning to develop – what is our suggestion for the coin of 2020.

-Simo

Project started

We are a group gathered for an innovative APD-project. The goal of the Advanced Project Design -course is to learn projectworking skills working with a real product development project. In this blog you will be able to follow how our project proceeds. The Mint of Finland has challenged us to create a prototype of a coin in 2020. The aim is to create fresh and new ideas for the professionals of the coin minting.

Our team members
Antti - Studying materials science and materials treatment and utilization
Ari - Industrial designer specialiced on usability and userstudy
Heikki - Studying material science and engineering materials
Jani - Studying metallurgy and work psychology and leadership.
Marko -
Mirva - Studying material sciende and recycling.
Pedro -
Simo - Studying materials processing and production