SurfaceBook SE
Computer for Kids and Planet's Future
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Jieon Choi personal project-2023.
This Project is not associated with Microsoft or any other entities shown on this page
Overview
Summer 2023
14 week duration
Individual project
Skills
Product Lifecycle Analysis
Competitive Research
Problem Solving
SolidWorks
KeyShot
Keywords
Sustainable Design
Product LCA
Chromebook
E-waste
RISC (ARM)
The Challenge
Identify the core problem of electronic waste and design a product to reduce the environmental impact and make social changes.
Design Process
INTRO
Research
Ideation
Design
Evaluation
Design Preview
The modular design of SurfaceBook SE allows to change its form factor based on the user's needs.
E-ink display on SurfaceBook SE uses up to 99% less energy and 3 times less eye strain than a conventional display technology.
Modular Design
Key Feature 1
Adapt the form factor to student's needs based on educational requirements.
Detachable Dual Screen
Input Modules
Accessibility Handle
Stylus
LED Spotlight
Utilizing technologies to reduce energy use and improve student's experience.
Energy Savers
Key Feature 2
E ink Display
Up to 98% less energy use compared to traditional display
Mini LED
Minimum 50% less power consumption
compared to LCD
ARM (RISC Chip)
More efficient processor compared to CISC(X86) based processors
Easy Repair
Repair and upgrade parts are available from the website provided with step by step video.
Expand I/O ports
Upgrade SoC
Larger Storage
Fix Keyboard
Replace Battery
Key Feature 3
For the right design, identifying the right problem through research on the market and environmental impact is crucial.
Research
Identify the problem
1. Market Benchmark
2. Statistics
3. Microsoft & Sustainability
This opens an opportunity for Microsoft to expand into the market with a better product.
The educational computer market is dominated by Google’s Chrome OS with a 60% market share. The other 40% is shared between Microsoft and Apple, 22% and 18% respectively.
1. Market Benchmark
Map out the existing products in the market and identify the opportunity the market is missing.
Take apart the benchmark product and calculate its impact score by material.
Okala Impact Factors are a designer-friendly form of LCA developed with robust North American science.
2. Statistics
Chromebook's popularity exploded during the pandemic. With 4 years being the average lifespan of Chromebooks we are expecting a lot of e-waste to be created from it.
3. Microsoft & sustainability
Learn about current and past efforts by Microsoft towards sustainability
Sustainability Reports
Microsoft publishes reports covering various aspects of the ESG matrix of the company and its products.
ECO PROFILE on Microsoft's education laptop is a great benchmark for the project.
Click to download the report!
Sustainability Leader
Project Natick is an experimental underwater data center by Microsoft.
By building a data center underwater, Microsoft is expecting to reduce costs and energy used for cooling the computers.
Surface devices are at the forefront of designing electronics with repairability in mind.
Surface devices implement features to help with repairability that no other big manufacturers offer.
Problem Statement
Define the problem
How can we redesign the future of educational computers that align with the interests of the users, a computer that can adapt to modern educational demands, and a computer that does not harm the environment and students' future?
The new design should lower the environmental impact of digital learning, provide a better learning experience through both hardware and software and always design for everyone.
Design target
Goal
Lowering the impact
Future of Education
Universal Design
Final Concept Sketch
Ideation Round 2
Ideation Round 1
Ideation Round 2
With the problems to tackle locked in, now you do ideation sketches to lay out all the possible solutions.
Ideation
Tackle the problem
Ideation Round 1
Final Concept Sketch
Final design sketch features modular components with a double sided display.
Feedback from peers
Strategies
These strategies are used to create a product that will fit our design goals.
Design development
Modular Design
Accessible Design
Built to Repair
Low Energy Displays
Modular design allows you to configure your Surface Book SE based on your needs.
Whether you want to write a document with an E-ink display and keyboard or want to make music with
MIDI Kit, it is up to you.
Surface Book SE is designed for everyone with different challenges. In addition to
Microsoft Adaptive Kit, Tactile dots, and Adaptive Port on the device help every user to use Surface Book SE with ease.
Surface Book SE has a display on both sides. Mini LED display as a main display and secondary E-ink display on the other side for optimal reading and other E-ink compatible applications.
Surface Book SE is designed with repair in mind. Modular design continues into the internals of the device allowing a larger number of user replaceable parts. Visit Miscrosoft.com/parts for a list of user replaceable parts and instruction videos.
Features
Features to help hit the design goals.
Design development
Mini LED Display
MIDI Module
E ink Display
LED Spotlight
Accessibility Handle
Dynamic Pixel
Surface Pen
Modular Input System
The input method can be swapped as educational needs change. It comes with a default qwerty keyboard with other options provided by Microsoft and through other 3rd party partners.
SurfaceBook SE is an education focused laptop that will help student's learning and their future.
Impact Scale
With the help of Sustainable Mind's software database, the environmental impact of the product you designed can be approximated.
Design evaluation
impact improvement
+15%
New design will reduce the environmental impact by 1% during its first 3 years and by +15% during its total lifespan (6+ years)
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