Product+Redesign

=Product Analysis : User Trips=

The solid fuel camping stove is a simple but effective means of brewing up or cooking a simple meal when outdoors. It was designed primarily for a focus group that includes backpackers, cycle campers and climbers, for whom lightness and compactness are important qualities.The design has changed little in the 25 years or so since it was first introduced and the boom in outdoor pursuits over the last ten years has not resulted in the corresponding increase in sales one might have expected for this product.
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 * Context:**
 * Context:**

= = Perceiving a new marketing opportunity, an expanding outdoor pursuits company, “TrailMates” has commissioned your design consultancy to develop a proposal for a contemporary version of the solid fuel stove
 * Tasks :**

Carry out a user trip on the current product in order to identify its strengths and weaknesses. Produce a design brief and preliminary product design specification for an improved version of the product Using sketching and modelling techniques, generate a range of initial concepts for an improved 'Trailmates' stove Select one of the concepts for further development. Give your new product a brand/product name.

As your development work progresses start to add relevant information to the pages below.
 * Recording your work :**
 * Exploring Ideas and the Task
 * Generating Ideas
 * Developing & Modelling Ideas
 * Planning
 * Evaluating