Customizable and adaptable furniture: Designing for millennial lifestyles and environmental concerns

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2020-01-01
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Johnson, Taylor
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Diane Alshihabi
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Interior Design
Interior design is an ideal academic home for energetic and inquisitive students seeking a meaningful, varied and creative profession. For each new problem encountered, interior designers use a variety of methods to investigate and analyze user needs and alternatives for satisfying them. Armed with this insight, they enhance interior spaces to maximize occupant quality of life, increase productivity, and protect public health, safety and welfare. The interior designer's ultimate goal is to transform generic, impersonal rooms and areas into unique, expressive spaces that provide the greatest possible "fit" with the values, personalities, roles and potential of their occupants. The Department of Interior Design was established in 2012. Previously, the Interior Design Program was in the Department of Art and Design.
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The assortment of furniture available in the market today does not meet the wants and needs of millennial consumers. The literature review confirms that millennials value customization and higher quality products from brands that implement sustainable practices. This project distributed surveys to millennial consumers to understand their wants and needs in the furniture they purchase. If offered the opportunity, millennial consumers would replace components to adjust the function, aesthetics and quality of a furniture piece to keep it longer. Applying the knowledge gained from the literature review and the survey, a furniture collection with removable and interchangeable components was designed with millennials in mind using a traditional design process. Marketing strategies have been proposed for a new brand concept incorporating the information learned through the literature review, survey and design process.

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