Pre-Production Design
· Presentation: The design I decided to accomplish is with furniture, most specific with a chair.
We all know that chairs are rarely comfortable for people, everyone have different manners of feeling comfort, so each chair would have to be comfortable for each of us and that is difficult cause we all are different. The answer for this dilemma comes along with this chair, a chair not made in a position that adjusts to the human back; it comes with no position but the position that you want it to have.
· Design: This chair is made up of two materials: rubber and plastic. Why rubber? The rubber is a manageable material which can adjust the way you want but it also is strong and resistant. The idea of this material is that it would cover the part of the chair were the back goes, so you can adjust it the way you like it.
The plastic would cover the part of the chair in where you sit, so the chair would be completely resistant and soft.
· Analysis: The goal of this project would be reaching the comfort of the people that prove this design and this design would be used by everybody because it can be managed by the people the way they want.
· Research: In the market there are a lot of chairs made up for human health, for solving back problems (http://www.healthyback.com/). A few examples are the ¨Tempur Pedic¨, ¨Herman Miller¨, ¨Human Touch¨ and more. The difference from this chair and the previously presented is that none of these chairs can adjust the way people want, they are sold in a way already established and all of them are made in a certain model.
· Specification: The requirements for this design to work out are principally the medical ones. Designs made for the human health and comfort must be proved by medical associations that approve this kind of products and that eliminate the ones that don’t have benefits for the people’s health and approve that ones that are good for people and that really work and accomplish what they propose.
· Problem Solving: The problem here is the back problems, most of the people of all ages suffer these problems and not all of the chair models are healthy or helpful for people suffering this problem, so the answer here is the adjustable chair that can be manageable in any way the people want, until they feel comfortable and good. This chair can be used by children, pregnant women and people of the third age so there is no danger when using this type of product, cause it is made up for you to make it the way you wish.
