Le Creuset Thermometer
Baseline Product
Alpha Grillers Digital Meat Thermometer
Rating: 4.5/5
Price: $15
An interview was conducted with an Alpha Grillers user to seek feedback. Main interview takeaways are summarized below.
Research
Not convinced it’s waterproof
User is apprehensive about the thermometer’s integrity if he were to drop it in a pot of soup.
Ideation Explorations
Made with organic watercolor forms, play-doh, and Midjourney.
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Le Creuset’s most popular color, cerise (red) is associated with love, passion, and energy, which are also themes of cooking. It goes with Christmas and Valentine colors; Holidays where people often cook together.
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Acrylonitrile butadiene styrene (ABS) is durable, heat-resistant, and easily injection moldable and paintable.
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Le Creuset products have a glossy finish. The color and gloss finish would both be spray painted on.
Form Development
Screen Selection
Model Evolution
Prompt: Design a digital cooking thermometer branded for Le Creuset.
7 week project, 2025
Feels fragile
The probe joint could feel stronger, and user wants a detent where the probe closes.
Manufacturing methods include…
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ABS is among the most common injection molded plastics.
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This is the most affordable, consistent, and controlled way to apply a smooth color gradient.
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A few coats of a UV-resistant polyeurethane clear coat would be applied last.
Lots of unnecessary elements
Though unbothered, user mentions there are lots of graphics and buttons he doesn’t use.
Mind-Mapping
A dump of thoughts to consider surrounding thermometers, and specifically cooking thermometers.
Probe pivot and the main body have hidden detent bumps that provide a physical “click” when turned at 90 and 180 degrees.
