Home Divider
A physical and mental divider of the home and work environment for the at home worker.
Project type: Bachelor Individual Project
Duration: 10 weeks
Tasks: Conceptual design, design for manufacturing, sustainability design,
ADVANCE
Textile product manufacturing partner with an expertise in sublimation Pactics aspires to be independent from their current clientel. Pactics takes pride in their corporate social responsibility and their factory in Siem Reap Cambodia.
With their own product(-line) Pactics wants to play into the new norms of corona with sustainability and their expertise as main drivers.
WORK FROM HOME, LIVE FROM HOME
Employees working in office experience a clear physical and mental home work barrier, both through the act of commuting and simply being in a different environment.
When working from home the home physical home environment partly becomes your work environment. The home work balance is mixed, both physically and mentally.
Interaction to split the home and work environment for the home worker
Feasible design for Pactics
Environmentally sustainable design
KEEPING THE USER CLOSE
Ideation was not only done on not only the interaction with the home environment and the product but also on the usability and portability of the design. Design visualisations were used to keep target user closely related to the project.
With very limited prototyping facilities cardboard prototypes were used for effective interaction and usability test
“I’LL LEAVE HER TO IT”
By being able to flexibly position the two parts, you’re able to not only visually create your own work environment, but also to communicate to the people around that you’re at work, not at home.
ERGONOMICS
With better ergonomics and space efficiency, the laptop stands transforms your kitchen table into a true workplace.
A FOLD A DAY KEEPS THE WORK AWAY
Like commuting, unpacking and packing up the home divider works like the mental transition between home and work
SCRAP TO SHAPE
Besides its great acoustic properties, PET felt enables Pactics to not only use their own polyester scraps again, but also to address Cambodia’s plastic waste problem, since felting is rather forgiving in terms of material use.
Using a simple heat press the structural rigidity and final shape is achieved.
SUBLIMATION PRINTING
With the polyester front cover, which doubles as a hinge, Pactics is able to make prints using their sublimation technique.
Pactics’ home of Cambodia is shown through a height map visualisation on the textile
FOR ANY BRAND
With the product being sold to companies with new at home workers, Pactics is able to differentiate the design for different B2B customers and incoporate their brand indentity into their desing using sublimation printing.
