We had the distinct pleasure to interview award winning designer Anna Kholomkina about their original and creative Dedicated device design work. Anna Kholomkina is an award-winning service designer, that makes our world a better place with their original dedicated device works.
Anna Kholomkina ("AK") answered Design Interview ("DI") questions about their award-winning work Forklift simulator Dedicated device. Interview questions prepared by Frank Scott.
AK : I should make something good-looking, useful, ergonomic, compact, easy to use with combine of flowing lines and sharp-cut outlines.
AK : I wanted to make the simulator to imitate working process maximum realistic; to achive that I put the whole cabin on a platform in a way the cabin can rotate to make an effect of motion; panoramic screen adds to this effect.
AK : This project minded to be a concept, but as leading experts and engineers of the company the design was made for highly praised the simulator, after winning the award there`s an opportunity this concept will be brought to life.
AK : This design was a part of my semester work at the university, in fact all the process took about three-and-a-half months.
AK : It was commissioned as a half-year task.
AK : Maybe it will be produced by a company it was made for, though it`s not for sure as other companies were interested in the design too.
AK : Target customer is cargo major companies, who always use forklift, so they need forklift simulators to train beginner forklift drivers to operate the machine and to check their skills.
AK : The design has strongly different shape and operating principle; also modern technologies are used.
AK : Dedicated device is what forklift simulator really is, it`s a machine with special training programs and specific function.
AK : When trainee driver operates the simulator, it arises sensation that he drives a real forklift; the simulator was designed so, the sensation is very strong.
AK : When designing I was consulted and helped by my design teachers - Elena Akkuratova and Leonid Filatov, who are practitioners in the designing field.
AK : The research was made at ergonomics: I had to ascertain which distances between object parts are appropriate, to ensure that all the object parts fit together and the object will be easy to use. To the effect I made a scaled human model and several different scaled simulator models to try some variant and choose the best one.
AK : One of the hardest parts was to find analogues for inspiration, that were not only good-looking, but useful. It appeared there isn`t a lot of them.
AK : I noticed an advertising poster the university I`m studying at, uploaded my design and managet to get a nomination ticket.
