DESIGN LEAD / User Insights, Product Design

 
 

Designing new features into a familiar + iconic language can be difficult without disrupting the current lines.  To add new feature sets to the dish category, I had to first deconstruct each category family to understand the Brand's Core DNA.

 
 
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By reducing the form of each category to it's core identifier, we were able to establish the differentiator for each unique use-scenario.  Any form exploration would be limited to these basic tenets. 

 
 
 

The visual language explored for dish included several feature upgrades observed from user ethnographies.  These include:

upright refills + vertical squeeze + counter-worthy color & texture with removable labels