Supplies needed to make our very own paper toilet!

This month, we started working on detailing the bathing stall, toilet booth and disabled access booth designs after completing our community feedback sessions in Bhubaneshwar.

We crafted a long list of activities and design aspects requiring user feedback at the end of Sketch Design 1. These user-centric insights are absolutely vital in ensuring that the designs are a response to what end-users need and not just “more of the same”.

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Notes and sketches after the initial brainstorm for our very own “Potty Lab”

We are setting up a toilet prototyping environment, playfully called the ‘Potty Lab’ in our Gurgaon studio.

This will enable us to test out ergonomics and other user-experience drivers for toilet & bathroom stalls within the sanitation facilities being designed by Project Sammaan. The results from the Potty Lab user-experience (UX) tests will inform architectural, product and component design, and detailing within different spaces in the new sanitation facility.

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It’s the 15th of February

We have jumped head-on into Project Sammaan. The task at hand – translating insights, anecdotes and important information from Potty Project and conveying it to the Project Sammaan architectural and space design team. A string of open brainstorms led to an excel sheet loaded with hundreds of ideas.We learned that re-inventing the wheel was not a possibility; the magnitude of the constraints became abundantly clear. This is going to be both daunting and exciting!

A month later. We have cracked the user journey for the proposed sanitation facility, made some bold decisions we feel really good about, and have begun playing around with the first round of layouts. Sketch Design Phase One is coming together!

Body-storming and role-playing to figure out basic ergonomics specifications for passages, booth sizes etc

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