Mystery Box Toy Design for 12-Year-Old Females: PPSY001 Project

The assignment details the design of a "Mystery Box" toy, created by Mustafa Daryabi and Qaeef Ibrahim, aimed at 12-year-old females, aligning with Piaget's formal operational stage. The toy comprises a mystery box with puzzles and a prize box. The design emphasizes sustainability through the use of recyclable cardboard and safe materials. The gameplay involves two rounds of puzzles with a timer, fostering brain improvement, creativity, and competition. The toy is designed to be safe, affordable, and promote various life skills such as understanding success, failure, and the importance of motivation. The assignment highlights the toy's features, including a digital timer, unique colors, and a token system for prize redemption, all designed to enhance the learning experience and align with Piaget's theory.

Mystery box
For Toy design PPSY001 assignment, Me Mustafa Daryabi and Qaeef Ibrahim
we working as a pair for designing toy for 12-year-old female based on
Piaget formal operational stage.We have created a toy for our targeted age,
and it’s named as Mystery box,and it come with another box which called
prizes box.
Sustainability with Mystery box toy is considered from designing the
toy to producing the toy that we have designed. We designed mystery box
by the practice of utilizing materials in a way that it can meet the needs and
demands of the present as well as future. As we considered cardboard on
making this toy it made the toy recyclable which is the best option for
environmental safety. As we designed the Mystery box in which players is
motivated for the activity by an interest in the process and tend to look foŕ
problems ́ to be solved by using this toy. Some creativity techniques are
used that do not only focus on finding solutions for problems but on
exploring the solution space around ideas. By designing prizes box beside of
Mystery box, we wanted to consider play value for players the overall
enjoyment of a child with toy. The price of Mystery box is very affordable for
parents to buy a toy with which their children can play together and learn
something.
The toy is designed completely safe and can not cause any hurt to a
12-year-old female. Mystery box does not contain any features that lead to
physical or emotional damage to a child as it designed with cardboards and
other safe materials in an appropriate way. The toy designed without any

sharp edges to prevent from unintentionally injuries of players during
accessing to the toy. As mystery box designed for 12-year-old female it’s not
too complex for them to use. The puzzles inside the Mystery box are made of
recyclable papers which also cannot lead to any danger for players. The
prizes inside the prize box all considered as a safe toy that already certified
safety and we use from high quality toys without containing any chemical to
cause harm, for example we used from a non-chemical slime as a prize in the
prize box.
Mystery and prize box display
Mystery box
prize box

Four players are needed for playing with Mystery box. The game
contains two rounds, semi-final and final. In the first round four players all
play together, the game start by pressing the button on the top of mystery
box, next step after pressing the button a puzzle which selected randomly by
mystery box will pop up from the top of the box. The puzzles maybe can be a
crosswords puzzle, number games, sudoku, word games, mathematic or any
other puzzles that can help with brain improvement of a child. After
accessing to the puzzle, a five-minute timer will be active on the box which is
a timer that player must solve the puzzle during this time. The two first
players who can solve the puzzle faster can find their way for the final and
the two last players will be eliminated from the game. And for the final round
also there will be all same process but this time only with two players. There
will be one winner in the game the one who can solve the puzzle faster,
there is a Token in Mystery box for the winner player, which after receiving
the token the winner can get access to the prizes box. After putting the
token into prize box, the winner can receive his prize which randomly
selected from the prize box, the prizes inside the box are such as slimes, toy
sands, Rubik’s cube or any toys that can help with creativity as we designed
the Mystery box and game for improving brain activity and creativity.
Mystery box designed very convenient with many features and options.
Firstly, the box designed with unique and interesting colors. Based on display
section you can see a button on the top of Mystery box the 1: Tap button
option of Mystery box. Beside of tap button you can see the Place that
puzzles will pop up which is the 2nd option of the box. on the front side of the
box there is a five-minute timer which is designed as a digital timer which
activate while starting of the game. The prize box also designed with a
storage of toys and a token placement feature which player insert the token
and receive the prize.

As we designed the toy based on Piaget’s theory forth stage of life
which is formal operations for the 12-year-old female targeted age we
considered Piaget’s theory on designing and usage of Mystery box. As most
of the 12-year-old already done with the concrete operational stage and
newly entered on a new stage of life which is formal operational, they
already understand logical thinking and how things work. Mystery box will
help them to improve their brain.Doing a puzzle reinforces connections
between brain cells, improves mental speed and is an especially effective
way to improve short-term memory.We also put a timer on the box,by using
timers, learners develop greater awareness of their ability to pay Attention
and are able to use strategies, like breaking up a task, to increase their
productivity. At formal operation a 12-year-old should learn to understand
the meaning of failure and success and by playing the game at two round
and becoming a winner in final round we implement to teach the players in a
convenient way. As the game needed 4 people to play there is also a
competition create among players which they are motivated by competition
to learn more quickly and perform better, two of the most crucial skills for
any person who wants to be successful.They also learn how to support one
another, take turns, and grow in empathy. As there is only one winner and all
the players cannot receive the winner token it can teach them the instability
and uncertainty that come with competitive circumstances, even though it's
crucial for them to know they are protected.The reward system will help
them to learn all positive behaviors have a good consequence and get
motivated which a person should learn it on formal operational stage of life
In conclusion,

Mystery box designed for formal operational stage of life targeted age of 12-
year-old female it is a complete safe toy for both environment and a preteen
and cannot cause into any damages. The box contains many features and
options that all designed based on Piaget’s theory and can help a child or
preteen to learn different aspects of life such as failure and success,
motivation, being responsible, learning fast, being creative and being
productive.