NID DAT 2014-15 Solution - Subjective - Buckets for Elderly People.

Well, Hello people. Recently, I came across a question from previous year's DAT. 

The question asked us to design a bucket which is easy for elderly people to use.

Basically, to answer the question, I followed these steps -

• Understand the present design of Buckets
• Find out the problems with it.
• Slowly, solve each problem with an Idea.
• Put all the ideas together and making a draft design.
• Finalize your design by troubleshooting any other problems which you have missed.

1. Problem: Elderly people bend down to use a bucket because they may have back/Knee problems. They cannot lift a bucket filled with water as their arms do not k\have strength for it.
2. Solution : The bucket must be placed at a height so that people wouldn't have to bend for reaching it. The bucket must be portable without using much strength (maybe should have wheels).
3.  Design:  This is my design.

So, the last step is trouble shooting. I request you guys to find out any problems with the design and any additional changes. Please let me know about it in the comment section below. ☺

A solution to story writing problem asked in CEED 2014.

A solution to story writing problem asked in CEED 2014.

This is a post by another CEED aspirant Prashant Kumar Verma,

Here I am sharing one of the possible solutions to the question shown below:

The solution was originated from preparation for my very attempt to CEED. Please go through, provide alternate answers and add necessary corrections in comments if any. 

Here it goes:

One evening, as Mr. and Mrs. Bajaj returned to their home after completing their work at offices they found the children standing at the door waiting for them. Both the children Sunil and Sunita were so eager to go out and play that they immediately left the house just after wishing a 'good evening' to their parents. At the same time, Mr. Bajaj's mother and sister Sonal visited the TV hall for evening tea. The mother went to prepare tea for Mr. and Mrs. Bajaj. Mr. Bajaj's father was seated on the sofa dealing with his record of previously invested shares and planning for a new investment. For him, TV was a pretty good source of market news as well as expert advice. Mrs. Bajaj and Sonal sat to relax and changed the TV channel from market news to some sort of serials. The instant Mr. Bajaj sat on the sofa a sharp and loud bark coming out of his pet dog Shadow's mouth, tore his ears and shook his head. He jumped out of sofa like a monkey. Seeing this Sonal and Mrs. Bajaj started laughing like a drain. The mother who just came back from the kitchen after instructing the cook, couldn't stop herself from laughing too. She got imbalanced and her leg hit a table with a flower pot on it placed nearby. The flower pot dropped to the ground and broke along with the father's concentration. "what happened ?" the father asked with standing ears. All the three ladies couldn't respond and laughed until the prepared tea turns cold. 

How to create a post in blogger

In this post, I have given step-by-step procedure on how to create a post by your own; in order to make you aware of how to share your designs or other works in this blog. Trust me, creating a post in blogger is much easier than filling your CEED registration form!.

To be an author in this blog, you are required to send your mail ID's to 'Stuff You Look' Facebook official page. As far as possible, share your Gmail Id's insted of others. You mail ID's are protected and will not be shared with anyone !

Step - 1

Once, you share your mail ID in SYL FB page, and when I add you as a author, you will get an invitation to your mail. Accept that invitation (by clicking the provided link in the mail), which will direct you to the blogger page.

Step - 2

You may land in a page that might look like this

Like I pointed in the above picture with a arrow, click on the link with the name - Stuff You Design. Which will redirect you to a new page.

Step - 3

Then you will see a list of already created posts in this blog. Remember, the pages/post that was created by someone else, will not be accessible by you. Your permission to limited to creating new posts, or editing (making changes to) your existing posts. Click on the pen tab as indicated by the arrow in the below picture. Clicking this means you are about to create a new post.

Step - 4

That will take you to a new interface as shown in the below picture. This is the page which allows you to create/edit a post.

As pointed by the arrow, fill in the space which will be the Title of your post. Here we wil maintain a standard format in naming the title. Follow the below

"(Your Name) - (Design stream of that work)"

For example, if i'm posting my work, which is related to product design, then I will type

"Bhanu Chander - Product Design"

If your works are not limited to a single design stream and covers multi design works, then better just include something like

"(You name) designs and sketches"

Example : "Bhanu Chander sketches and designs"

Step - 5

On the same page, you may look to the right of the screen, to see the links as shown in the image. As indicated by the number "1" in the picture, you may click that link named "Permalink", which will display the URL (link) given to your post. You may save that somewhere for your own reference. You can use that link to share with your friends or even in Facebook/groups to get reviews.

In addition, if you can, you may give some labels to your post, to get easily identified in searches. Labels are like tags and indicates what are the key terms in your post. Examples like your name, product design, Visual communications, sketches, design, drawings, reviews, animation design, logos and so on. You don't have to take the pain of filling other details in the remaining links. It's just for Google search engine, we are not concerned much on that anyway.

Step - 6

The main page where you can type, upload images is shown below.

You can see some symbols just below the post title space on the top. Those are more similar to that of Microsoft word and are easy to understand. Anyway, the one mentioned as "1" is mostly handy to you - that will allow you to upload pictures from your system. You may also explore and experiment other symbols too. The empty space is where you are allowed to include your content and picture.

Step - 7

Once you are done with all the uploads and typing, click the "Publish" button, available at the top right of the page. To get it publishes. Remember, the link will not work until you publish your post. If your upload are not  completed and you wish to make changes/publish later, simply click "Save/Draft", which will be available later for editing.

That's it, so simple right ? ok if not at the first instance, but once you create a post, you will agree with me. You now are a professional blogger :P

Hope, you got an idea on how to create a post. I guess, you all will try your hands on blogging and write for others, if not now but later when you find time :P