TEAM: Ctrl Z

 

We’re Eilish, Nildene, Kieran and Howard and our team is Ctrl+Z (that’s pronounced control zed, not zee).

We’re students with the Design Factory Melbourne (Australia) and come from different design backgrounds and disciplines. We are passionate about designing to help people and designing to benefit the future.

We hope that our solution to this project is something that is of true value to both people and society and hope that you enjoy the journey as much as we will. Read along with our process in our blog posts below.

Welcome to our team page! 

Our Process

Ctrl Z: Preparing for the Good Old Days

Ctrl Z: Preparing for the Good Old Days

"I wish there was a way to know you were in the good old days before you actually left them." – Andy Bernard (Ed Helms, The Office, S9E23, 2013) Well, we aren't quite done to start reminiscing, though we have been through so much in last 8 months and we've achieved so...

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Ctrl Z: The Best Things in Life are Freeze!

We've made it, after months of work, to the inevitable Design Freeze. This is the point of no return, really, where we've taken from our previously established design details and refined them into a final solution. This post will provide our solution overview and more...

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Ctrl Z: Your Attention, Please

Ctrl Z: Your Attention, Please

Culminating from months of research, idea generation and concept development, we’d like to present to you our most refined problem space and our future 2030 scenario in a new light and all its details. Our concept has also been established and can be found in our next post.

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Ctrl Z: Crop It Like It’s Hot

An abundance of ideas is a blessing. Until you have to sort through them all and crop out the ideas that just don’t fit the bill. We develop, establish, test and decide on idea directions and concepts a lot in hopes that our direction will one day be cemented into something intriguing, something of value to both the user and our future 2030 society.

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Ctrl Z: Back to the Future

Returning for an epic 2023, we’ve spent time establishing a more refined problem space and establish our future scenario for how we see 2030. This will assist in kicking off Phase 2 with a bang and lead us straight into design developments!

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Ctrl Z: Where were we going with this?

Where were we going with this again? Some of us aren’t that great with directions, especially after a holiday break! Here’s the penultimate post of Phase 1, explaining our concept and taking you through our presentation slides and our white paper report–MediScan!

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Ctrl Z: Caught in a Brainstorm!

Ctrl Z: Caught in a Brainstorm!

Here, we’d like to introduce our Idea Bank! Our time at IdeaSquare in Geneva allowed us to explore our research areas more in-depth and begin the brainstorming process, culminating in ideation, prototyping and presentations. These ideation sessions continued for us locally on our return to Melbourne, allowing us to explore our opportunity areas that we had not gotten the chance to previously.

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Ctrl Z: When you don’t know what you’re doing

All projects start with the Unknown Phase. Where you know next to nothing about what you’re looking at or where you’re going. You have to shape your problem and address the project, all while trying to understand what you can with what you can find through research. The Ctrl+Z team ambitiously explored 14 different opportunity areas for this project and has summarised these research areas in this post.

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Ctrl Z: How much does a polar bear weigh?

Ctrl Z: How much does a polar bear weigh?

We want to take a moment to introduce ourselves.
We’re Eilish, Nildene, Kieran and Howard. We’re from Design Factory Melbourne, and the four of us make up Team Ctrl+Z. We’re excited to be taking on the CBI A3 project and spending these next exciting months looking at SDG 3.

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TEAM CTRL Z

Eilish  Jackson
Eilish Jackson

Industrial Design

You could say I’m crazy about design. It’s my first love! As an Industrial Designer, I am passionate about usability, design thinking, and sustainability. A creative at heart, with a little bit of nerd thrown in. You’ll find this has given me the “superpower” of radical thinking, and I’ll stop at nothing to find a way to do what needs to be done.
Nildene Spagnuolo
Nildene Spagnuolo

UX Design & Comms Design

I come from a User Experience and Communication Design background and I am currently extending my skills in postgraduate studies at Swinburne.

I have a passion for design research and designing for people. My design thinking “superpower” is time travel; I like looking at everything being done and to be done, and then seeing how it fits in the grander scheme of a project.

Kieran Lewis
Kieran Lewis

Industrial Design

I began my design journey in Engineering where I had one CAD subject in 2nd year and absolutely fell in love, and decided that Industrial Design was the perfect fit for me. So, I made the switch and never looked back.

I am so passionate about all things design and love to push myself to learn more, I live to challenge myself and only feel comfortable when I’m out of my comfort zone. My goal as a designer is to help people and solve problems in a creative way and I am very excited for the future of design.

Haowei Tu (Howard)
Haowei Tu (Howard)

Comms Design

Hi, my name is Haowei Tu. You can call me Howard. I am studying at Swinburne University of Technology. I am working on a master’s degree in the Department of Design at the National Taiwan University of Science and Technology, specialising in graphic design, packaging, and communication design. 

I am strongly influenced by Eastern culture as he has lived in Taiwan since birth. I constantly think about bringing stories of his own culture into his projects, such as using Oracle or traditional royal patterns as features of my projects.