We had the distinct pleasure to interview award winning designer Sachin N P about their original and creative Customisable Tea Maker design work. Sachin N P is an award-winning industrial designer, that makes our world a better place with their original customisable tea maker works.
Sachin N P ("SNP") answered Design Interview ("DI") questions about their award-winning work Ocha 2.0 Customisable Tea Maker. Interview questions prepared by Frank Scott.
SNP : I am mad about tea. And also very specific. I often miss the perfect cup of my tea when I'm out of my place. This bought me the initial thought of making a fully customisable tea maker.
SNP : As all my works, for Ocha also I give the primary concern to functionality and User. I made the entire design around how a User, his moods and his environment.
SNP : It took around a year for Ocha 2.0 to take its shape.
SNP : As I already mentioned, I always work on needs and user. I found many users including myself, who had a common need. And hence the origin of Ocha
SNP : My friend Vimal C, an industrial designer had helped me in this project. We have done few projects together.
SNP : Any one and everyone who want their specific cup of tea is my user. Ocha 2.0 is designed for a nuclear family consisting of 4 to 5 members. For those people who feels the current busy life styles make them lose a lot of things small and big. Who wishes if someone makes their perfect cup of morning tea n bring it to bed. For people who wants their perfect tea when they are tired from hectic office work. So anyone and everyone is here in the list of user.
SNP : The transparency of this design is its main highlight and make it stand out and close to the user. Unlike normal vending machine, Ocha makes tea in front of your eyes in the very traditional way someone can make a tea. And it is also packed up with updated technologies like Internet of things. Ocha is a perfect example of how technology can bring back the style and tradition that we miss
SNP : Ocha means tea in Japanese. The tea is in culture and tradition of people of Japan and they are very serious and specific about tea. What other name could be perfect for such a product?
SNP : I used Autodesk Inventor 2015, Keyshot 5.0, Photoshop CC
SNP : Brewing tea is a play between tea dust, infusion rate, quantity of milk, not the least the amount of sugar as well to give indeed a cup of perfect tea that tingles your senses. Presenting Ocha 2.0, the next generation tea brewing experience. Ocha 2.0 is a cocktail of all conventional brewing experiences. The rule in design is “form follows function”, likewise in the case of Ocha 2.0 it has redefined the rule as “art follows technology”. Loaded with options such as customising, scheduling tea with Internet of Things as the base.
SNP : Ocha was a result of intensive User Centric HCD Process.
SNP : One of the most challenging part of the design was to design the stirring mechanism which would replicate the efficiency of using a spoon to stir. Ocha uses a unique methodology for stirring the ingredients within. Achieving the stirring action without the use of any external parts led to the most innovative feature of Ocha 2.0. It has a rotating platform that holds the glass jar in place with the help of an electromagnetic groove which is eccentric to its rotating axis. The circular metal ring at the bottom of the glass jar falls in line with the electromagnetic groove so that the jar could be held firm. This positioning on the whole helps the jar in moving along an eccentric path which in turn ensures thorough stirring of the ingredients within the jar.
SNP : A' Design Award is one of the best platform for evaluating ourself and the exposure a designer get from such an international award is priceless. This made me participate in this award.
