Product design for the community

Abstract

This article is an academic article to present about product design for the community by designing and developing souvenir products from Ubon Ratchathani lotus leaf cloth. The objective is to design and develop the product to be beautiful in terms of shape creation and beautiful color creation, resulting in 1 product type, which is a unique souvenir bag, to be sold as an alternative to increase the value of the community by studying and analyzing data, creating a product draft, designing and improving, creating a pattern for the product, creating a product prototype, creating a satisfaction assessment form for 50 product prototypes, the sample group is determined from 16 tourists, 12 civil servants and staff of higher education institutions, 12 merchants, and 10 students, totaling 50 samples. Purposive sampling was used to test the quality of this product, resulting in the tool used, which is a souvenir bag model, a product from Ubon Ratchathani lotus leaf cloth. A questionnaire on the opinions of the sample group was used to analyze the data by finding percentages, arithmetic mean, and standard deviation. It was found that the souvenir bag model had an overall good opinion. With an average of 4.10, when considering each item, the average values ​​from most to least are: Creative product design concept, average of 4.40; Suitability as a souvenir, average of 4.32; Appropriate colors, average of 4.26. In conclusion, the opinions of tourists, civil servants and staff in higher education institutions, merchants and students agreed that the design and development of the souvenir bag product that was designed was appropriate at a good level. Then, the knowledge gained was transferred to the sample community that had the potential in sewing clothes, had tools and equipment ready for sewing, and organized training for the sample group to transfer knowledge to the community by providing knowledge on the designed product, starting from the design concept, product design, materials used, production methods and problem-solving methods. It was found that the Thai Cotton Group was very interested, experimented with production until the product was produced and could be commercially produced. The group will develop it into a product that is unique to the group.