We had the distinct pleasure to interview award winning designer Siyang Xu about their original and creative Conceptual design work. Siyang Xu is an award-winning creative designer, that makes our world a better place with their original conceptual works.
Siyang Xu ("SX") answered Design Interview ("DI") questions about their award-winning work Acoustic Cable Deicing Robot Conceptual. Interview questions prepared by Frank Scott.
SX : In countries and cities with severe snow accumulation all year round due to the special environment, heavy snow has brought too much human and financial resources consumption.
SX : In the case of unmanned operation, IoT applications can better solve the work in some special environments
SX : The product still needs to be upgraded to bring more complete applications
SX : About a year
SX : At the beginning of designing this product, as a designer, I observed the power damage caused by heavy snow in surrounding cities, and used this as a design requirement to bring a new design concept.
SX : A company contacted me before, but the product is still in the concept part, and the detailed functions will continue to be improved in the future
SX : As a designer, I play more of an observer of life and propose better optimization methods for existing problems
SX : Long-term work in an electric power company in an extremely cold region
SX : I prefer to use the better IoT or satellite system to improve the workflow
SX : When naming this product, I hope that users will know what kind of robot product this is when they see the name
SX : Rhino and Keyshot
SX : Bionic robotic arms replace workers' repetitive work
SX : This is my personal independent work
SX : This is a core issue. As an industrial designer, we should not only think about appearance and function. Even for conceptual design, we often have to rely on the existing level of technology to quickly gain market recognition.
SX : When you have an idea, you have to obtain some market demand information and information about companies that can produce it. These key information can prompt you to design a more perfect product.
SX : In the early stage of AI's booming development, we hope that robots can replace us to complete some more challenging tasks. It is a huge challenge to achieve the perfect integration of AI and robots.
SX : I have participated in many design competitions and have some experience in this area.
SX : I think we should observe life, the surrounding environment and the developing technology more.
SX : No more for now
