Mess-merize

A work desk for the butterfly in you.

Initial Brief : Office Furniture

Brief: Office desk design with new simple and flexible visual organizing element for visual organizers, to help them realize their organization style.

The addition of flexible organizing elements on top of the table enables visual organizers to allocate home for their belongings wherever they are comfortable.

Process

Brief Hunt

Research

Preliminary research

Market Study

Furniture study

problems & opportunities

Final Brief

Selecting Final brief

Literature review

User Research

Final design

Final Design

3D model & Renders

Ideation

Sketches
Scaled Mockups

Analysis &Insights

Clutterbug Study

Process

WHAT IS THE PROBLEM?

Clutter and chaos - one of the top five causes of stress in a workspace

HOW?

The Messy Again Phenomenon

A lot of find our workspace back to a mess even though we organized it only recently.

It is often an organized mess and often not.

In both cases there is

Time Loss- finding things
Repeated organizing and cleaning
Unhygienic
Inability to focus

Such users find traditional organizers unsustainable and frustrating. WHY?

BECAUSE Organizing is not one size fits all

CLUTTER BUGS SAVES THE DAY!

ALL PEOPLE ARE NOT LAZY THEY JUST ORGANISE DIFFERENTLY.

According to the book, The Clutter Connection there are 4 basic types of organizing personality

VISUAL ABUNDANCE

ORGANISATIONAL ABUNDANCE

VISUAL

SIMPLICITY

ORGANISATIONAL ABUNDANCE

VISUAL

SIMPLICITY

ORGANISATIONAL SIMPLICITY

VISUAL ABUNDANCE

ORGANISATIONAL SIMPLICITY

BUTTERFLY

BEE

LADY BUG

CRICKET

Closed/hidden storage

Macro - organizer
Beautify outside
Simple & Clean

Open/Visible storage

Macro- organizer
Easy
Out of sight out of mind

Busy bodies

Open/Visible storage
Micro organizers
Perfectionists
Procrastinates
Hoarding Behaviour

Closed/hidden storage
Micro organizers
Perfectionists
Sometimes procrastinates

Your workspace is messy again because the way it is organized do not fit your personality.

GETTING TO KNOW THE CLUTTER BUGS - User Study

Semi structured interview and Observation of users in their workspace was done. The sample pool includes the different type of organizers to understand behavior and their issues with clutter.

CRICKET

User 3

BUTTERFLY

User 1

BUTTERFLY

User 2

OBSERVATIONS from user study combined with literature review that lead to the final brief.

The clutter bug that stood out among these is the Butterfly as their workspace often suffers from the messy again phenomenon and the drive to tidy up is rare.

Claim : Butterfly type - " It is an organized mess"
Organized mess is often organized only temporarily.
They are rarely sustainable.
Will need to be tidied up once in a while anyway.
And turns into an organized mess as easily, which is frustrating.
A product intervention is possible and more likely successful.
Traditional organizers do not work

Reducing Reflective thinking

When it requires the user to think about where their things are supposed to go , or put any kind of extra effort that makes it harder to do at any point of time and hence often end up in places that are more accessible and easier to see and remember.

Hence it would be easier to organize if we reduce the reflective thinking required to do so.

How to not make a mess in the first place?

Accessible and flexible organizers more specifically designed for butterfly type.

Butter fly type is most prone to such organised mess, because they prefer visual abundance and macro organizational simplicity , which they do not realise themselves often fall prey to typical organizing tools available in the market which are only ideal for micro organisers.

Butterfly type organizer not able to align to typical organizers in the market. WHY?

The former factors such as effort and efficiency play a bigger role in butterfly type.

They love to have everything in sight but cannot micro organize, or find efficient homes that stick.

Most available tools in market caters to micro organizers.

Macro organizing tools usually offer less visual abundance.( such as a basket)

Insights

WHO is the design for ?..

Butterfly Type Organizer

Visual organizer

Macro organizer

Busy body

About

He is a work from home employee who likes to keep himself busy and occasionally goes to the office. He has a work table in his in a separate room so that he can attend meetings as well as work without any disturbance or misplace work items with household ones.

Frustrations

He cant seem to keep bring his desk back to tidy at the end of the day and ends up cleaning it once it has gone out of hands.

Do not know how to organize so that it doesn't get cluttered often.

Goal

To find a sustainable organizing method to save time and become more efficient.

Taking INSPIRATION from workspaces with atypical organizers that are visual and offers flexibility to design apt workspace for a butterfly type organiser.