We had the distinct pleasure to interview award winning designer Mohamad Montazeri about their original and creative Educational Product design work. Mohamad Montazeri is an award-winning service designer, that makes our world a better place with their original educational product works.
Mohamad Montazeri ("MM") answered Design Interview ("DI") questions about their award-winning work Shine and Find Educational Product. Interview questions prepared by Frank Scott.
MM : In astronomy education, training constellations has always been difficult, time consuming and sometimes even tedious. For this reason, making this training easier has been one of my concerns in recent years. "Shine and Find" is a training aid product to make constellation training easier. This product is designed in such a way that it can teach all 88 constellations in the sky to the user in a simple way. Education along with fun and enjoyment without fatigue. "Shine and Find" is actually a simplified form of the night sky and constellations.
MM : In terms of form, simplification has been as important as possible. In addition to making the product beautiful, form simplicity is more successful and attractive in training constellations that have their own complexities.
MM : Mass production of "Shine and Find" worldwide. Because according to the studies that have been done, "Shine and Find" has a good potential to be among the educational aid products in the world.
MM : About a year.
MM : I am a designer. In addition, I am an amateur astronomer and astronomy promoter. I always saw the difficulty of teaching and learning the constellation when teaching students and astronomy enthusiasts. So I designed "Shine and Find" to meet this need.
MM : I have not received an offer yet. But I am definitely looking for mass production and I welcome good offers.
MM : Personal interest, good idea and feeling the user needs.
MM : I do not have a specific case in mind, but in general, many studies on astronomy teaching methods, especially the constellation, as well as teaching aids, were very important to me.
MM : Astronomy promoters, astronomy students, all astronomy enthusiasts, especially people who are interested in constellations.
MM : I invented "Shine and Find" and there is no similar example to meet the needs of users.
MM : The phrase "Shine and Find", which is considered as the name for this product, is a kind of encouraging and motivational phrase to encourage the user to work with this product and learn the constellations. The user lights the marbles by placing them on the board, and finally the constellation appears. In fact, "Shine" refers to shining stars, and "Find" refers to finding constellations. "Shine and Find" means shine the stars and find their constellations.
MM : 3D Modeling, rendering and presentation software.
MM : The three factors of a good idea, beauty of form simplicity and creative performance, make this product attractive and successful in teaching concepts to the user.
MM : I designed this product individually, but I enlisted the help of several relevant experts in making the final prototype.
MM : In the design of "Shine and Find", technology played the most prominent role in the manufacturing sector. Construction of delicate marble lamps with the ability to conduct electricity in the place of rings and also a thin board with conductive rings on the body of each cavity.
MM : Yes. In the first stage, a lot of information about various methods of teaching astronomy, especially constellations, was collected and examined. Also, a lot of information was collected and reviewed by various educational aid products. After making the prototype, several analyzes and experiments were performed on the product and its operation method and their results were analyzed.
MM : The most important challenge was the construction of marble lamps and the thin body of the product, which was finally successfully completed with the help of advanced manufacturing technologies.
MM : I always welcome any kind of challenge and excitement. International design competitions also have their own challenges. The challenge has always been interesting to me.
MM : This project had good technical and engineering lessons for me.
MM : I think the interview was complete and good. Finally, thank you for this interview.
