Organizador Entrelacé

Abstract

People’s daily life is getting faster and faster and the spaces are getting smaller. Thus, design from the perspective of the organization acts in a way that provides welfare and practicality to a user’s daily life through the creativity and functionality of the projects. This present study aimed to create an organizing product to be used in cabinets and closets, which help in better organization of these spaces. When the studies with the target audience started, some problems reported by users were observed during the stages of questionnaire and activities of observation. The main problem was the lack of space in the cabinets for storing belongings. Despite of the wide range of organizing products on the actual market, there’s a lack of products with adaptable options to the many configurations and dimensions of existing cabinet, as well as a lack of lower prices for this products. As shown in the results and persona, the biggest difficulty for the users is how to organize drawers, especially underwear and socks. Thus, the stage of the project ideas was based on studies to create a drawer organizer for this purpose. The prototype has adjustable partitions that slides horizontally and also allow vertical fittings to take advantage of the height of the cabinet drawers as well. The materials chosen for the prototype were gray cardboard and ecopoli fabric, both sustainable, lightweight and cost-effective. The project was named entrelacé organizer and had a modular design, that each piece was developed individually, but together work as a set of interconnected components. In the end, the developed organizer reached the initial proposed objectives, attending the profile of the majority of users and concluding all the main items of the list of requirements, including aesthetics, practicality, lightness, use of space in width and height and sustainability assumptions.