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Designing a small, portable bubble tea making machine with a simplified user process.

Hi, this is Yifan Liu, a designer from China and will graduate this summer. My interest in manufacturing area of products had driven me to study product design and manufacturing in the University of Nottingham. The study career in the past two years has given me invaluable knowledge and professional training of skills in relevant area.

I have a interest in observing the problems I met in daily lives, and think if it can be solved by design. Therefore, I’m interested in the area of electronic appliances. This area requires higher level of CAD modelling and rendering of me and encourages me to hone my skills.

Currently I’m seeking for a career in designing or manufacturing area, in which I can best utilise the experience and skills I learned. I always have a dream to devote myself to manufacturing area and eager to apply my skills and continue to learn in my future careers.

Yifan Liu, BEng Product Design and Manufacture

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BubbleTea Crafter

BubbleTea Crafter is a kitchen appliance with multiple functions and can be used to complete bubble tea making process individually. Its merit is small and portable, yet powerful enough to be used in different contexts.

Bubble tea is a popular drink, but making it needs lots of tedious and boring labour, which hinders many bubble tea lovers from making it at home. Generally the amateur makers will need half an hour on average to make a cup of drink. Such long time of making and waiting will harm the maker’s anticipation and enthusiasm obviously. This product is designed to facilitate amateur bubble tea lovers' attempts to make bubble tea and similar drinks at home, simplifying the making process and cut down the labour amount needed in the process.

Based on researches on bubble tea making process, BubbleTea Crafter is designed to integrate multiple functions such as blending, extract, weighing, filtering. This kitchen appliance will fulfil bubble tea lovers’ need of making the drink, whilst integration of various functions will make the process faster and easier. 