Initial Ideas

Initial Ideas

1. Who?

   • Disabilities
     • Specific needs
     • Highly functional
   • People with limited space
     • Very efficient products
     • Flat pack or multifunctional
     • Difficult to make functional design appeal aesthetically
   • High disposable income
     • No specific needs
     • Lots of money to spend
       • Potentially high profit
     • More space so bigger, less efficient products
   • Campers/travellers
     • High portability
     • Secure
     • Weather proof
     • Compact
     • Travel adapters?

2. Problems

   • Sugar, tea and Coffee
     • Which is which?
     • Take up to much worktop
     • Not attractive
   • Safe storage
     • Not concealed
     • Needs security
     • Don't want codes to remember
     • Keys are easily lost
   • Appearance and comfort compromise
     • "Contemporary things are all uncomfortable and impractical"
   • No space

3. Materials

   • Renewables
     • Wood
     • Leather
     • Wool
     • Cotton
     • Timber
     • Environmental
   • Smart materials
     • Thermochromic inks
     • Shape-memory Materials
     • Florescent/glow in the dark
     • Piezoelectric
     • Photochromic inks
     • Photomechanical materials
     • Polymorph
   • Metals
     • Alloys
       • Steel
       • Copper
     • Strong
     • Elemental
       • Magnesium
       • Aluminium

4. Commercial

   • Low costs
   • Apealing
   • Ease of manufacture
   • Marketable
   • Solve a problem
   • Needs to be needed

5. Manufacturing

   • Laser cutter
     • Cheap
     • 2D
     • Loads of different materials
       • Sheet
   • CNC Router
     • 3D
     • Wood
     • Foam
   • Lathes
     • Metal
     • Wood
     • Not CAD/CAM
   • Hand tools
     • Difficult to mass produce
   • 3D printer
     • Expensive
     • Ability to make complex shapes

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