1JULIE POLASKIINDUSTRIAL DESIGNER

2I am Julie Polaski, 21 years old and finishing my final semester as an Industrial Design student from the University of Illinois. I am now looking for a job where I

can apply my skills and creativity.

Hello!

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3Reentel International Inc, Lead Product/ Graphic Intern

Corvae, Co-Founder, Industrial Designer

Finalist in Cozad New Venture Competition, Corvae

iVenture Student Start-Up Accelorator

ThinkChicago: Chicago Ideas Week 2015, Participant

Project Green Challenge, Finalist

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Julie PolaskiINDUSTRIAL DESIGNER

Table of Contents

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Lura Oceanic Solar Rise Corvae Furniturepg. 5 pg. 26 pg. 37 pg. 54 pg. 61

LuraThe Fruit Fly Trap

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1 in every 4 homes in the U.S. per year get infested with fruit flies.

Fruit flies carry bacteria which contaminate produce causing it to ripen and rot sooner.

Once infested, fruit flies quickly reproduce on fruit, sponges, drains, or trash containers.

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Occupation: Teacher Relationship: MarriedLocation: IllinoisHobbies: Baking, Craft-ing, Pinterest, Spending time with my daughter

Age: 58

Joan Gambla

How often do you get fruit flies?Once or twice a year. I usually have them in my kitch-en during the summer or fall seasons.

What is your experience with fruit flies?I hate them! Theyre annoying and gross, especially if they land on my produce. Its an unsettling feeling to have a fly harassing you in your kitchen.

What do you do when you have them?Unfortunately, I just end up throwing out all of my good produce in attempt to get rid of them. If that doesnt work I buy a bug killer trap, however I find it very unsettling to have bug poison next to my food. Not to mention it looks terrible and tacky.

What words come to mind when you hear the word fruit flies?Gross, Disgusting, nuisance, annoying, rotting,bacteria infested, and down right pesky!

Interview

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Emotional Journey

Buying fruit at grocery stores or farmers markets

Bringing home fruit and placing in fruit bowl

Eating a piece of fruit

Noticing fruit fly on a piece of fruit

Ignoring fruit fly

Thoughts& Feelings

Emotional Experience

Phases of the Journey

Getting Fruit Denial

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DenialMore fruit flies appear

Tiny Brown spots on fruit appear

Trying to kill themultiple fruit flies

Fruit rotting process gets accelerated because of all the fruit fly bites

Noticing that they are fast and very hard to kill

Throwing out all fruit to get rid of fruit flies

Anger Acceptance

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Emotional experience with fruit flies

Rational experience with fruit flies

Denial Anger Acceptance

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When interviewing people who get fruit flies 3 common solutions came up for their problem:

Solution 1: Solution 2: Solution 3:

Most people buy fly paper in attempt to kill the fruit flies. In most cases it does not work unless you buy large amounts of fly paper and place it all over your kitchen.

Another common solution is to take a jar or empty bottle and place a piece of fruit into it. You then take a piece of paper, roll it into a cone and place it into a jar. The fruit flies will crawl, in but will not crawl out. The big problem with this solution is that the fruit flies start to multiply. Once there are enough fruit flies gathered in the jar pushing on the papers edge they start to escape.

The third, and most common solu-tion is to simply throw all of your fruit away.

User Research

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User Research

$9.99

Fruit flies crawl in and eat poison

Disposable

Price

Placement

Pros

Cons

How it Works

Type

Simple and inexpensive

Have to constantly replace, looks tacky

In fruit bowl withfruit

$29.99

Fruit flies crawl in and get trapped

Refillable

Refillable

Expensive, tacky, gross

On kitchen counter

$5.99

Fruit flies are attracted to scent and get stuck on sticky surface

Disposable

Simple and inexpensive

Have to constantly replace, looks tacky

On kitchen counter

$12.99

Fruit flies are attract-ed to scent and get trapped inside

Refillable

Refillable

Looks tacky

Hung from win-dow or cabinets

Market ResearchThis chart explores existing fruit fly traps on the market.

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Open traps Closed traps with deep entrances Closed traps with shallow entrances

Lure ResearchBefore sketching forms I needed to know what types of traps worked the best, and came up with 3 categories. With closed traps I found that it killed some

fruit flies, however, some would fly back out. Open traps were a complete fail-ure as the fruit flies would only sit on the edge of the trap and never went low enough to drink or fall in the liquid. Closed traps with straw/ funnel entrances worked best. The fruit flies would smell the liquid, fly in, and get trapped until

they drank the liquid and died.

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Closed traps with deep entrances

Lure Size Entrances

Openings

After decidi