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confessions of a design geek
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Award-winning UK design blog established in 2010 to discover, champion and inspire new designers.

here’s one I made earlier :: furniture design course – day 3

Katie, April 17, 2010June 16, 2020
This article was published 16 years

Next we had to do a user profile: a board showing the person our chair was for. (Even if the chair is for mass production, the idea is to try to summarise your target audience into one representative person.) 

Here’s mine: CSM furniture design course – user profile 

So, my user is creative, busy, design-savvy, organised but chaotic. She can’t sit in a chair properly – see the photos to the right of the user profile. My challenge – to design a chair she can sit in. 

We started brainstorming ideas – the idea was to get 10 – 30 ideas on paper, no matter how silly they were. 

20 chair ideas
20 chair ideas
This article was published 16 years
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