5/5: Do-Not-Bite-Your-Fingers Jewelry

Shuqi Zhu
Shuqi Zhu
Sep 5, 2018 · 2 min read

Theme: Dermatophagia

Idea: I got very nervous since I could not come up with my fifth idea and time was ticking. Like many anxious people, I started to bite my fingers. I hate what I am doing but just cannot stop. I tried to get beautiful nail polish but it is expensive. I tried to wrap my fingers with band-aids, but it look awful, make my fingers swollen when my fingers are wet, not easy to take out, feel clumsy when typing and the Mac touch pad cannot feel my fingers anymore! I want to solve this problem to stop the inflammation of my fingers.

Methodology: Make cute, cut-out and light finger jewelries with smells — aromatic ones which indicate non-edibility

Medium: paper laces, bitter pills, cooling oils

The finger ring prototype
For creating the smell(soak the rings into the cooling oil or liquid with bitter pills)
better look than band-aids
feel easy when typing and touching

Expected Results: I would not bite my fingers again

Questions: What is the deeper physically and mentally reason for Dermatophagia? Can it have a cure once and for all?

Shuqi Zhu

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Shuqi Zhu

Hi I’m Shuqi, a Master student in Parsons Design and Technology.

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