1.4 DESIGN FOR YOU

So the gap I chose to fill is the kindle paperwhite casing, with a card and a pen holder. Here is my sketch below:

It has the card holder at the left while the kindle is placed in the right.

1.3 VISUAL EXPRESSION I: THE BASICS

My chair sketch

This is my awesome chair it swivels at the bottom.

1.2 FIND THE GAP

Things that annoy you or cause you extra effort, time, money, or discomfort:

• I do have the first Kindle paper white (I love reading) and I bought the expensive Amazon official casing (normally buy a cheap moko casing - what go into me). Well the problem is the casing doesn't have a holder where I can keep a small piece of paper for taking notes, or my hospital card so I don't rumple it in my pockets. I would like a kind of holder too so I can hang my pen. Kind of a Kindle, card, and pen holder.
• I have two laptops (Windows & Ubuntu) and a handful of other gadgets (tablet, kindle, etc.) I have a problem with keeping them so I don't step on them while wading across the room at night. So I would love a have a kind of rack to keep them (in my small room) so I can easily see and pick what I want while also keeping them from the floor.
• Still on racks, I stack my shoes onto of each other in my closet. A rack to keep them would also be nice. I usually get mud on the sole of my shoes, so stacking them on each other isn't cool.
• Yes my reading chair, ok this one I hate. I am usually not comfortable seating on it to read or work. I sometimes prefer to leave the chair and lay on my belly on the floor to read or use my computers. I notice the main reason is that it got no arms. so I would love a reading chair with arms and some how more comfortable.
• My son does not sit down to eat, you have to chase him round the house with the plate in your hands to feed him, my wife thinks we should get a chair with straps so you can hold him in place. Would that not amount to torture?
• I love cooking more than I love reading, I am sure I loving the eating more anyway. However, I don't enjoy having to move back and forth to get spices and seasonings. So a spice rack would be awesome, and one just above the stove so I pick my spice without moving an inch.
• I write programmes for my work and yes I am in Nigeria and power supply is epileptic. When you write a programme and have to stop midway because your laptop battery is running low is not very productive as the next time you look at the code there is this moment of what was I doing here? So I a form of backup would be nice, maybe power inverters, or a dynamo-generator where I pedal as I programme.
• The other gaps I can thing of now can't be solved readily with the skill I have, rather I would need what I don't have, money, to buy a second screen for my laptop - a 40 inch led would do. That is actually two gaps: Money and A second screen.

So the first gap, the kindle/pen/card holder would be the basis for my design course. It should be smaller (to produce) than the other gaps and I would not need to hit nails and accidentally hit my fingers.

1.1 Good Design

I love the Kindle Keyboard (or Kindle 3). It is very thin and has buttons at the sides for navigating between pages, meaning I don't have to remove my hands from holding position to "flip" pages. Then you see the four way key, it allows me skip to the next chapter, a feature not in new Kindles due to their touch screen feature. Did I mention that is is very thin and comfortable to hold in one hand while reading.