Goals
Pains
Move to new places effortlessly
Find affordable & good-looking furnitures
Be able to keep her old furnitures every time she moves
Assemble furnitures easily
Spend physical labor moving in and out every year.
Discard furnitures and buying new ones frequently.
Spend too much money on buying furnitures.
Most of the affordable furnitures are hard to assemble.
Has this ever been you?
Young adults living in urban areas move frequently due to changes in school or career.
Packing
Dumping
Moving
Buying
Olivia goes through this process every year when she moves into a new apartment
This is Olivia
Age/Gender
22 / Female
Location
Queens, NY
Year of Study
3rd Year Undergraduate
# of Roommates
2
Olivia’s lives in a small apartment in Long Island City so that she can save up on rent. Because of this, buying large furniture pieces is impossible for her.
“Because of the increase in rent, I have to move to new places every year. Every time I move, I have to discard a lot of usable furnitures because they are too heavy.” - Olivia
Design Requirements
Compact
Modular
Affordable
