// Final Major Project // Design — 01
Co-Design & Model Making

I had a lot of ideas while I was designing the space, the moodboard also gave me inspiration on how to combine multiple function in a furniture. I also invited a participant who provided me her bedroom dimension to join the design process with me. Since we both were at different locations and time zone, we had to make use of the “day time” that we both have to talk about it. We had a lot of Skype calls along the way to talk and discuss how things can turn into within this bedroom size. And I did make adjustments according to her feedbacks:

1. Extendable barre — Since that participant does ballet as her hobby, I originally added a barre that has the same width as the closet and placed it between the closet and dresser. However she told me that the barre would be too short for her to even do stretching. After searching the dimension of a home barre, I decided to make the barre extendable from its original length to 100cm, so it can fulfil her needs as well as being store at the original place.

2. Multifunctional cubes — I always have an idea of making use of those cubes for different purposes. Apart from using it as stairs for accessing to the bed, I was thinking to make those cubes moveable to separate space within the room and create another private spot such as a reading area. After sharing my initial idea with her, she mentioned she would prefer to have a small social spot in the room instead, hence we started to calculate the heigh of the cubes and see whether it suits the purpose of having a tea table. (The size was just a rough dimension)

Cubes use it as social/ tea table

The participant also proposed to merge the desk with the cube shelfs so as to maximise space. However, after measuring the heigh the the cubes, I told her the height of the cubes would not be suitable for serving as a long term work desk. (which might caused more negative emotion) Therefore we ended up with my initial thought, which is to placed an extendable desk instead. Under daily situation, user can use the desk with its original form, but if they need a bigger workspace, the desk surface can extend a size more to fulfil their needs.

Bedroom with extendable desk

Note: Since Homestyler does not allow making customise furniture, the image here is just a concept visualisation
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['UX Design', 'UX Research', 'Design Thinking', 'Design Process', 'Wellbeing']