Facing issues with Designing Plumbing Equipment
Joined as a product design intern in a small firm recently and I'm really struggling to come up with a solution for my project.
The project involves redesigning a plumbing equipment for a certain application/product that the company specializes on.
Plumbing equipment in general doesn't seem to have a lot of resources online regarding their design, so its difficult to know how to design one, especially the internal stuff (valves, gaskets etc.)
It also doesn't help that my manager is reluctant to meet me and ghosts my messages.
I think my performance in the intern will be heavily judged by how creative my solution is. Therefore I think I have to create something completely new from scratch.
What must I do in such a situation?
Do I design the exterior(which has a heavier importance) first and worry about the internal mechanisms like the valve later?
I would have to worry about prototyping as well.