Even One of the accessories does the big matter
MioWork-L1000 products system had developed various accessories that are able to cater to different scenario purposes, such as warehouse, hospital, forklift truck..Miowork-L1000 is not just a single 10-inch tablet, it's product experience includes all of the accessories. So even a minor character in this product system. we try our best to provide our users better usability experience. The vehicle cradle is one of them.
The Most Compact size of 810G cradle for 10" Tablet
In order to support tablet to pass 810G vibration (the United States Military Standard), The cradle usually need a strong & mechanism structure to support its strength. but considering the cradle eventually would be operated by humans (not by machine), don't want our users to be upset while they are set up with a big & heavy cradle. So we develop & finally output our most compact size cradle.
compare to competitors our cradle have an obvious size advantage
made ideal size with Blue foam mock-up at first Final design 3D printing mock-up
Only one action with one hand to lock / release tablet
Our cradle features A Easy and intuitive operation design. by special spring latch fixture mechanism, the user can use only one hand to put on / take off from the cradle. this is one of the big design points to give the user a better usability experience than other competitor does.
Study & Analyze competitor operation step. and to find out their weakness, then to improve it on our design.
Sweet design for lock status indicator
Not just have users easily access the lock component, we also put a sweat design of a lock status indicator by color dot to let users intuitive know whether the cradle is locked or not.
check color visibility
Clean & Point Focus I/O ports layout
Unlike competitors' many & complex I/O ports, we only keep the most important and good extensibility I/O connector. to have the design looks very clean and comfortable. Also in our design users no longer deal with complicated cable management.
To ensure plug operation usability
Hand with/without glove then test to see if could operate plug in both scenarios. Also found & suggest a better solution to setup these plugs. For example: use a screwdriver more easily to access the plug.
Field test to verify our design
To make sure our design can work in a real work scenario & user, we visit a professional forklift truck vendor, with the man who does work with a forklift truck to test our design.
Of Course, by this good chance, some of the project team members come to experience such fresh work scenarios.
It's all about user
Product design eventually will back to the user experience. We always desire to to make our product user happy, that why we keep improve our design better & better. Always to give user a positive & contentment product experience.
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