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BENCHMARKING


                                                                                                                            €119.00      UWELL Nunchaku
                As part of my third year academic year we were
                instructed to conduct a re-design of a product from                                                      €85.00      Diamond Mist Brix
                one of the following sub headings;
                                                                                                                      €59.00     VooPoo Vinci X
                Electrical device ( Health/Wellbeing/Medical)
                Electric DIY hand tool                                                                           €45.00    SMOK RPM80
                Electrical office/kitchen device

                                                                                                              €40.00    UWELL Caliburn
                The objective of this project is to succesfully identify
                problem areas of the selected product and provide a
                design concept to remedy these issues. This project is
                majorly fueled on user based testing such as; Out of                                €15.00 Vype ePen 3
                Box Experience & User Testing.


                Firstly I chose my product, the Vaporesso XROS vape                            *Prices aqquired from ecigstore.ie (NOV 2020)     €35.00
                pen which was categorized under Wellbeing category.
                I have recently developed an interest in these
                products as for a long time I have not been able to

                quit smoking and beleive these products have a great
                future ahead of them.                                                                                                                Rise in


                I was fortunate that I had two family members who                                                                                    usage in
                had purchased this product so I gave them a set of                                                                                   vapes (per
                questions and an opinion sheet for them to complete                                                                                  million)
                after two weeks of use.
                I then gathered three testers to test the product and
                run through the OoBE from initial unpacking to using                       The number of vapers has been increasing rapidly - from about seven

                the product.                                                               million in 2011 to 41 million in 2018.


                Main Criteria:                                                             Market research group Euromonitor estimates that the number of adults
                                                                                           who vape will reach almost 55 million by 2021. - BBC.com
                Benchmarking & SWOT Analysis
                ACCESS FM
                User Testing & OoBE
                Re-Design Proposal

                                                                                                      800mAh | USB Type C                            2ml Tank Capacity
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