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If assembling a piece of furniture makes people attached to it, imagine how attached they would be to a piece of furniture they perceive that they have had a pa
by cconcepts 11y ago
If assembling a piece of furniture makes people attached to it, imagine how attached they would be to a piece of furniture they perceive that they have had a part in actually designing?
1) Have a set of standard template furniture items
2) Allow user to view the item through a WebGL viewer (or however its done these days).
3) Allow the user to adjust certain aspects of that piece of furniture within the viewer. IE desk surface height, depth, space between legs etc.
4) Use parametric algorithms to adjust the componentry accordingly within existing load bearing parameters. For example, "desktop needs attachment screws every 200mm". This kind of formula is already commonplace in many CAD packages [1].
5) Have the backend software export the parts as CNC cut files and create a bill of materials.
6) Package the cut parts and additional components (screws etc) and ship direct to client.
7)(optional depending on level of unscrupulousness) Have the parametric algorithms incorporate a fatigue based breaking point so they can justify throwing the crumbling desk away in five years and you can sell them more furniture "they" designed that is more in line with current trends.
[1]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GClGn1Y7bNA#t=3m58s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GClGn1Y7bNA#t=3m58s
EDIT: formatting
- qznc 11y agoThey call this Industry 4.0
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- vincentkriek 11y agoIkea has done that for quite a while now and is ramping it up this year. The PAX wardrobe system [1] has been an IKEA staple for many years and people are very happy with it (what I hear around me). They starting to take this concept into the living room with the BESTA storage system [2] which allows people to create their own entertainment unit or cupboard. Not to mention their kitchen systems because kitchens are always a "design your own" purchase. [1] http://www.ikea.com/us/en/catalog/categories/departments/bedroom/19086/ http://www.ikea.com/us/en/catalog/categories/departments/bed... [2] http://www.ikea.com/us/en/catalog/categories/departments/living_room/11794/ http://www.ikea.com/us/en/catalog/categories/departments/liv...
- kalleboo 11y agoThey even have an 3D planner for BESTÅ, but in Flash http://www.ikea.com/us/en/rooms_ideas/planner_bestauppleva/index.html http://www.ikea.com/us/en/rooms_ideas/planner_bestauppleva/i...
- cconcepts 11y agoWow, I'm surprised how functional the 3D planner is. Totally didn't realize they had taken things to this level.
- vlehto 11y agoBut there is a risk of reverse Ikea effect. That happened to me. I bought a bed from Ikea, but it came incomplete. And it never was exactly as I wanted it. So I threw away most of the parts and made my own bed around few of the side boards. It didn't take one evening but a week of evenings. Empowered by that experience I made legs for my desk. Shelf from scratch. Painted one old shelf that would have otherwise gone to garbage. Assembled sliding boxes to go under that bed. Sanded my girlfriends old table. Etc. We have like one very cheap piece of furniture from IKEA and made lot's ourselves. So it's very bad business model to sell stuff that's not quite right, but has obviously usable parts. If you allow people to design their own shit, you run another risk. Especially with current prices of power tools.