Echo Yuan is a product and industrial designer based in Brooklyn, New York. She is interested in taking something we already know and challenging our preconceived notions of the subject. Through observing, learning, and thinking, this process refreshes our  ways of perceiving the surroundings. While her work focuses heavily on tangible products, she also enjoys exploring and working with different mediums, and she is always excited to play with new tools.


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Echo Yuan is an interdisciplinary designer and artist based in New York City. She believes in the meaingfulness that different objects convey, and they are mediums that change our conventional thinking. While her work focuses heavily on tangible products, she also enjoys exploring with different mediums to communicate her thoughts.


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02 Ouvré
December 2021

Egg topper










An investigation of various interactions between humans and eggs, with the objective of discovering the most intuitive way to crack an egg open.








Ideations and experiments


















After some chaotic experiments, I went in depth with a couple of different directions as follows.








Scoring






Conclusion: scoring does not grab the egg shell very well.








Using conserved momentum 








Conclusion: using hand does not exert the force well.







At this stage, I have exhausted a lot of ideas and felt really stuck. Then I came across an existing egg topper, and it was able to crack the egg successfully after several testings. However, it did not look comprehensive enough for the customers to understand how it works at the first sight, so I decided to embellish it by studying and modifying the design.








Redesigning Egg Hammer Touch











Ouvré



An egg topper that redefines the conventional way of cracking an egg the by introducing a novel interaction with the embellishment of an existing design.













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