Wonton Hugging Chair

The Wonton Hugging Chair Process Book John Nguyen & Roshni Patel Advanced Projects ID DSID 128

Table of Content Part 1: Research

01 02 03 04 05

Theme Brainstorm Emotional Wellness Research Summary Highlights

06 07 08 09

Interviews Challenges Opportunities Project Goal

Part 2: Production

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Ideation

( Phase I, II, III)

Final Phase Research

(Market, Human, Ergonomic)

Sketch Conceptualization Mock Ups Inspiration

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Product Testing Material & Color Theory Sketch, Form, & Dimension Bills of Material Production Process Final Model

I.

Research

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Theme What does it mean to be secure?

1. Feeling safe, stable, and free from fear or anxiety.

“Everyone needs to have a home and to feel secure and wanted�

Emotional stability is a strong force when it comes to feeling secure.

We wanted to explore more into a direction that ties with our emotions.

02 Theme Brainstorm

What type of emotionally secure problems do we commonly see in the age groups of 18-30?

Emotionally despair

Health related issues

Missing a loved one

Far-traveling

Social/peer disconnection

Attachment

Missing a loved one

Homesick

Chosen theme:

Secure the Emotional/Spiritual Qualities of Life

03 Emotional Wellness

The ability to acknowledge and share feelings of anger, fear, sadness, or stress; hope, love, joy, and happiness in a productive manner

Emotional Wellness helps us understand ourselves & cope with the challenges life can bring.

Our heart is the home where our emotions channel from. Just like being homesick.

We asked ourselves if we were homesick, how we could allow ourselves to cope with our attachments and raise our level of comfort?

04 Research Summary As we furthered out more onto this emotional spectrum, we went out to research within our age group and see what they have to say.

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With the concentration on the emotional/spiritual theme, we agreed on the approach of securing one’s emotional wellness.

We found supporting website links with useful information to get more in depth with the topic.

To better our understanding, we channeled our approach into 2 ways:

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A total of 16 questions are based on participant’s perspective of what “home” means, a depth of their relationships or favorite attachments, favorite memories, and comfort zone.

We gathered 31 participants, all coming from various age groups, to get involved with our research. We narrow it down to 6 to help us with our research.

The set of carefully constructed questions would allow us to learn more about our participants and their personal experiences on our theme.

on-line & in-person interview

05 Website Highlights We wanted to obtain informations about the commonalities we all usually face with being homesick.

Home Sickness isn’t Really About Home

How to Handle Being Homesick as an Adult

Home Sick Home: Why feeling Homesick Can Actually Make You Sick

Ways to Help Being Homesick

Need for love, protection, security, feelings and qualities associated with home

Missing your old familiar life of family and friends

Call family often and talk to the people you love

Wishing for a connection that will make you feel better

New environment can be hard to adjust to

Try to get acclimated to the new environment

Realize it is normal as you are adjusting to a new environment

Inoculate yourself from being homesick

Home has a sentimental value, try to take it with you

Talk about your feelings with family, friends, anyone

Stop dwelling on the past

Try to adjust and deal with it

Put pictures in your home or room to remind you of the good times and feel connected

You’re missing familiarity, what’s normal Stay engaged in other activities to take your mind off being away from home Establish a personal routine Do activities that make you feel closer or remind you of home

Create new traditions and familiarities Experience

Don’t drown out the feelings with drugs

Talk to someone

Attitude

Exercise and meditate

Think time is short to make it go by faster

Personality

Create attachments away from home Find a friend Avoid expressing anxiety

Outside factors

06 Interviews Out of the 31 participants, we took 6 within the age group of 18-30 that answeredthat gave us a clear path of information that may help us with our research phase.

All participants collected were away from their hometown, family, friends, significant others and attaments to obtain legitimate data.

Interview Questions: 1. What is your definition of “home”?

2. How do you handle/cope with the discomfort of being away from something or someone you love?

3. Has there been a time where it’s hard to relate or connect with someone in your lifetime? Explain why.

4. What do you think your comfort zone is based on?

5. What time (day/week/month/year/season) do you look most forward to and why?

What type of feelings/emotions spark during this time?

Interview Polls

Amount of Participants

Age Groups

Age Range

Participant’s Location

1. What is your definition of “home”?

Home is a place or a person that is constant and/or familiar, that puts you at peace and makes you feel safe.

2. How do you handle/cope with the discomfort of being away from something or someone you love?

The initial detatchment is difficult and jarring and the feeling of seperation anxiety is intense in the beginning, making me feel like all I can do is isolate myself in my sadness, but once that feeling dulls I can occupy myself with other people or hobbies.

3. Has there been a time where it’s hard to relate or connect with someone in your lifetime? Why?

It’s hard to relate to someone whose experiences are so drastically different from your own. I fundamentally disagreed to so many of this one guy’s philosphical and moral beliefs, so it made it hard for me to see him as anything more as an antagonist.

4. What do you think your comfort zone is based on and how do you deal with it?

Meet Ashley Age: 18 Occupation: Student Hometown: San Jose, CA Current home: Elk Grove, CA

I think that my comfort zone is based on what is familiar and what seems within reach. Change absolutely blows but it’s necessary for growth. Logically I know that nothing stays the same but I have some kind of complex when it comes to letting things go so I hold on to moments or periods of time and try to recreate them, try and emmulate how they made me feel. When my comfort is threatened I can become isolated and unmotivated.

5. What time (day/week/month/year/season) do you look most forward to and why?

What type of feelings/emotions spark during this time?

Fall and WInter. When everything is cold and when my family stays inside to stay warm.. These two seasons are just so happy, everything is in festive colors and there’s just a feeling of family warmth and joy all around.

1. What is your definition of “home”?

Where you feel a sense of familiarity and the most comfortable

2. How do you handle/cope with the discomfort of being away from something or someone you love?

If it’s someone, I call or text them. I do really miss my dogs right now, and how I’m coping with it is that I’m just counting down the days until I can see them again.

3. Has there been a time where it’s hard to relate or connect with someone in your lifetime? Why?

For my parents, brother, and me, it’s been hard for us to relate to my sister since she was diagnosed with rheumatoid arthritis. It can be very difficult at times when we need to be somewhere early in the morning, but she is still in bed and cannot get up because she is too in pain. Maybe to us it’s not at all an issue, but to her it takes an insurmountable amount of effort.

Meet Kim 4. What do you think your comfort zone is based on and how do you deal with it?

Age: 20 Occupation: Student Hometown: Clovis, CA Current home: San Jose, CA

Being too shy to try or do certain things/fear of embarrassment.

I just try my best to adapt and go along with it as it comes.

5. What time (day/week/month/year/season) do you look most forward to and why?

What type of feelings/emotions spark during this time?

Fall = chillier weather, classic fall scents/spices, warm drinks, family time.

1. What is your definition of “home”?

Where the people that make me the happiest are. My bed makes feel at home.

2. How do you handle/cope with the discomfort of being away from something or someone you love?

I keep busy always, bake, clean work on school stuff. Sometimes I’ll drive around.

3. Has there been a time where it’s hard to relate or connect with someone in your lifetime? Why?

Sometimes it’s hard for me to talk to one of my closest friends because she’s always with her boyfriend who hates me but the feeling is mutual. It seems like she’s become less of herself and more of her boyfriend and it’s weird trying to have a regular conversation with her.

4. What do you think your comfort zone is based on and how do you deal with it?

Meet Alexus Age: 22 Occupation: Student Hometown: Elk Grove, CA Current home: Chico, CA

A feeling of warmth and happiness. It’s the spot that I think about when I get stressed or I need a depression nap. I always try my best to go out of my comfort zone because I didn’t do it enough growing up. Usually my friends help me come out of my comfort zone. Roll with the punches and hope I get back up.

5. What time (day/week/month/year/season) do you look most forward to and why?

What type of feelings/emotions spark during this time?

I look forward to everyday because you have to live everyday like it is your last. It is important to make sure you don’t “wait for the weekends,” when you can make your weekdays as special or great.

1. What is your definition of “home”?

Where everything is familiar. Streetnames, buildings, and landmarks are all memorized. Anything new sticks out like a sore thumb.

2. How do you handle/cope with the discomfort of being away from something or someone you love?

I focus on things that I enjoy. Things I can do alone. Hobbies.

3. Has there been a time where it’s hard to relate or connect with someone in your lifetime? Why?

People grow apart. Differences in interests. Differences in relationship needs.

To stay connected, I tend to like their instagram posts, watch their stories, or comment little quips here or there. My friendship is very low maintenance but each friend holds a special place, rapport, and memory bank.

Meet Patrick

4. What do you think your comfort zone is based on and how do you deal with it?

My comfort zone is based on all the walls I’ve put up from the times Age: 25 I was hurt.The older I get, the better I get at adapting.

Occupation: Student Hometown: Sacramento, CA Current home: Los Angeles, CA 5. What time (day/week/month/year/season) do you look most forward to and why?

What type of feelings/emotions spark during this time?

Night time. I come alive with energy. The sun and heat are not beating on my sensitive skin. I feel most comfortable in my skin in the nighttime.

1. What is your definition of “home”?

Home is a place where you’re with your family. Im used to seeing my Family, dogs, friends. Its the comfort of being in the environment I’m used to. The types of food my mom also makes is the icing on the cake.

2. How do you handle/cope with the discomfort of being away from something or someone you love?

Going home every week from school, study, shopping, visit relatives, eat

3. Has there been a time where it’s hard to relate or connect with someone in your lifetime? Why?

Yes because of differences in values and morals that conflict and lead to arguments or frustration. When a person does not see eye to eye and always against what you think/believe its hard to hold a conversation with them or be on the same page.

Meet Delina

4. What do you think your comfort zone is based on and how do you deal with it?

Im very comfortable when I’m at home but anxious and unhappy when I’m away Age: 28 from home. When you come home, its just privacy that makes it comforting.

Occupation: Student The key to life to make it easy is adaptabitly and adjusting. Sometimes you have Hometown: San Jose, CA to get out of your own comfort zone to learn new things.

Current home: San Fransico, CA

5. What time (day/week/month/year/season) do you look most forward to and why?

What type of feelings/emotions spark during this time?

Holidays like Thanksgiving, Christmas, NYs, and birthdays are special events/holidays which we are able to spend time with the people we care about.

1. What is your definition of “home”?

Home to me is the place I live at. When I think of home, I think of my wife and dog, and my friends and family. “Home” is the center of my universe.

2. How do you handle/cope with the discomfort of being away from something or someone you love?

Technology has made it a lot easier for me to cope with being away from my loved ones. When I travel for work or leisure, I try to stay connected with my loved ones through texts and Facetime. Also social media plays a big part too, as I’m able to see what everyone is up to.

3. Has there been a time where it’s hard to relate or connect with someone in your lifetime? Why?

I feel in my 30s, it has been harder to connect with my close friends. Everyone has reached a point in their lives where their priorities have changed, such as getting married and having children, or having a career that takes up much of their time. We all try to make an effort to connect and spend time with each other, but it’s not as easy as it was in our 20s.

4. What do you think your comfort zone is based on and how do you deal with it?

Meet Nick Age: 30 Occupation: Student Hometown: Sacramento, CA Current home: Bakersfield, CA

My comfort zone is based on my personal beliefs and prior experiences. I think it’s very important to be flexible and adaptable to your environment. If you are frequently placed in situations and environments that challenges your comfort zone, it allows you to grow more adaptive, and you are less likely to be in situations where you feel uncomfortable.

5. What time (day/week/month/year/season) do you look most forward to and why?

What type of feelings/emotions spark during this time?

My favorite season is Fall, I love the changing weather and seeing the plants and trees change. Of course, I love the holiday season, because it’s the time of year where I get to spend the most time with loved ones. During all these times, I usually feel very excited and energized. Waking up in the morning isn’t so hard, and I’m generally looking forward to getting through the workweek, or doing other tedious tasks.

Interview Reflections

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The familiarity of seeing their family, friends, being in their personal environment, and favorite belongs are what makes them feel at home and look forward to home.

It’s the feeling of enabling their character freely, allocating all their stress out of their system.

2: Redirecting away their thoughts by keeping themselves busy has been often said. Our participants usually reach out to their loved ones through text/call and occupy themselves with sports, hobbies, or games.

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Miscommunication was the key to almost all of the participants’ responses. Interests, priorities, morals and personal growth such as marriage with kids has been several factors that influences their decisions.

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The most common said thing was within the Fall/ Winter time because the back to back holidays giving time for family and friends to come back and spend time with their loved ones and the thought of cheerful and heartwarming holidays give the participants the same feel.

Familiarity with what’s around them is where people identify their comfort zone. Being in a place that allows a sense of freedom to the mind and body enables that participant to feel fully comfortable.

07 Challenges After going through all the responses from our interviews that we either spoke or surveyed, we took those commonalities from each questions and take those as our challenges we like to tackle.

If most people are responding in ways where they are facing similar circumstances, then there must be a problem within that we can find a solution for.

Challenges

How can we help users to break out of their comfort zone when they are forced into a new environment?

What is currently in the market to improve one’s wellness?

What failed/what succeeded?

How can a product become part of someone’s life as soon they start using it?

What helps tie people together in a spiritual/emotional approach?

Using Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs, it helped us look at what to tackle so that we know what to what level of wellness we want to acheive, which is the green level. Within the green, we have to look at the basic and psychological needs first.

How can we build a method that can alleviate the feeling of homesick/away from a loved one?

08 Opportunities Looking at these challenges, we can narrow down on possible design opportunities that can reduce those problematic barriers.

These opportunities could help tie people together and help improve the miscommunication or misconnection that life tends to cause upon us as we grow older.

Opportunities Communication Article of clothing Social Media influences Transportation/Internet Connection Interactive Photos

To relive the moment again Music Culture Food Furniture

Personal Kiosks for photo Food booth Scent Keychains Kitchen goods Beloved item that can evolve/grow with us Comfort Virtual Reality

By looking at our 5 senses, we want to focus on the opportunities that links with sight and touch.

Camera

09 Project Goal We want to look into the common problems that we all face today when we are away from our “home� due to daily obligations such as work, school, or travel.

Channeling a way to make a positive experience for people to build up their level of comfort through familiarty is what we want to concentrate towards.

Project Goal

To secure one’s emotional wellness after being distant from their loved ones and home.

We aim for a product that could allow the user to cope with their personal struggles and help raise their level of comfort.

II.

Conceptualization

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Ideation Phase 1 Each of us had to sketch as much ideas as possible so that we are able to visualize the preliminary solutions for our project goal. As we explore into how the user can get comfort better, this phase helped set the stage for us to look into furniture.

The ones with the stronger resolution were what we pushed forward.

We both tried to compared our sketches together, but each concept unfortunately didn’t have any revelance with each other.

Initially, the focus was to ease the user by helping them fall asleep more easily but the concept had a flaw inbetween.

We attempt to do 1 set of 12 sketches per person to acheive the revelance we were looking for.

Folding our paper that divides out 12 boxes, our sketches were getting to a direction we both wanted. This led to refining the chosen sketches and narrowing it down to 6 ideas that were good indicators for our final selection.

We chose the 6 based on what we could agree on and explore more possibitiles.

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Ideation Phase II To get these 6 sketches out, we used post-it notes to achieve our idea in a quick yet productive process.

This helped us figured out our 6 main ideas we wanted to go forward with.

Furniture has been the key category that we’ve been looking into and so we kept that in mind while jot down our ideas down onto the page.

Mockups

Outdoor Box Room

Hexagonal Pods

Modular Light Ceiling

Hammock Chair

Plant Telepresense

Family Tree Lights

Hammock Chair - Securing the user with nolstagic feelings of sitting in a hammock which craddles and secure the user just as he/she would sit on a traditional hamock. It also springs back and forth for rocking motion.

Because we liked how there was a good opportunity to refine this concept, we pushed for the chair into our next ideation phase

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Ideation Phase III We were struggling to see what possible way is to make 3 whole new concepts. After receiving feedback from peers and the instructor, we kept the chair idea but the other two are evolve form from their precedent.

From what we could have done better, we had to get the concept to be more understanding and easy to follow.

Concept 1

Concept 2

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Ideation Final Phase As midterms rolled by, we, again, refine our previous 3 concepts and attempt to get the idea more detailed and realistic so that the product can be identified as a design and not a concept.

We felt like the chair had a stronger opportunity to achieve our emotional secure project goal

Concept 1

Concept 2

Concept 3 Here is Roshni demonstrating how the comfort of a chair can mimick a hugging squeeze that we want the users to feel

After the critque, with careful decision, we decided that we want to go forward with the chair concept as it meets to what we want out of this project.

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Market Research To get more of a understanding of how chairs are made, the form it is in, how it held up, materials being used, craftmanship, and technology it has, we went out to various furniture store to explore and be inspired by the design. Stores such as La-Z-Boy, Scandinavian Design, Walmart, Target, and local mom&pop furniture stores were ones where we went.

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Sketch Conceptualizations After getting the inspiration and outside perspective on how most chairs were made, we went forward to sketching our idea on the form, size, and shape.

We began forming the shape in ways where it looks more like a racing bucket seat.

We then made it look like the chair is floating as it is being supported by two frames on the side

The chair began to look like a baby craddle as we continue to have the chair float

Even though, various forms of how the chair is being held up was explored, it became more boxy and it started to look like the same.

Frames were explored as well but its beginning to look too complex.

Even though, various forms of how the chair is being held up was explored, it became more boxy and it started to look like the same.

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Analyzing Mock Ups We undergone countless amount of sketches for days. To help us understand the form we’ve been working on, we went in on how a typical chair would be constructed using quick and cheap materials to mock a small scale of what we are envisioning. Going back and forth, we had little progress on what type of direction we want to go with.

We explore using grey felt and stuffed with cotton balls to understand the thickness we want to go with.

With stitching, we explore on where to put the stitching around to achieve the back support and lumbar we intended to have.

We used foamcore to see how a chair can be elevated from the ground by using having each ends of the chair be mounted and hanged from the frame.

Working with foamcore and cardboard, this model helped us understand how much of a depth we need to work with to allow room for cushion

Using an existing product, we attempted to see if we can apply cords to test out how much of a tightness a user wants when the chair hugs them.

We tested out Play-Doh to evaluate how we want the chair to look like but also analyze how much cushino support we can apply.

Struggling & Circling The more we kept on sketching, the more disengaged we were about finding the right shape. We had to go back to the orginal plan about emotional wellness.

We had to look back at our persona and the purpose for our chair. Beacuse we wanted to deal with the market field of college students, we both agreed that a typical college student wouldn’t to carry a heavy floating chair to their dorm if their dorm has a limited space capcity.

We had to take a breather and attempt to try for another design.

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Wonton Inspiration One day, food was on our minds. We began to talk about what type of food we’d crave the most when we get back home for Thanksgiving. Immediately, Dim Sum popped out of John’s mind. He was so engaged in how hot and fresh the dumplings, wonton, and shumai were at a restaurant in Sacramento.

Out of no where, John thought about the the wonton wrappers and how the chefts fold and nicely form the shape of a cylindtral meat patty tucked inside the wrapper.

We thought about having the chair to resemble like a dumpling inside their steam container.

This lead to a big inspiration for creating a chair that has no hard structure but holds up like it does.

In a dumpling, the flaps hug elegantly around the meat patty as the left over flaps create a gracious form of ridges on the exterior.

We thought why don’t we create a chair that mimicks how a wonton dumpling would be folded and sets.

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Product Testing To save time, we were able to obtain several chairs that would act like our mock ups so that we could fully understand how we would sit and stand from it and help further our process.

We got a dog bed chair, beand bag , and a rough couchseat cushion chair to test out the form we want to go with.

As we test the chairs ourselves, we also conducted a research survey with Roshni’s housemates as well.

We both agreed that we will go forward with a bean bag style chair as it fits the college environment. Being that its lightweight, portable, adjustable, and space-friendly.

Dog Bed Chair Putting a dog bed on a chair, John discover something unusally new. As it had a large lumbar on the railing, John thought it had an interesting flapping over motion when he wanted to get a squeeze out of them between his waist.

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Couch Seat Cushion Chair Roshni pulled out her house’s couch and uniquely formed a chair out of it. This mockup helped us obtain key information on proper dimension so that we know what’s too big and whats too small.

We added the wonton mechanism to see how it works. By adding more padding using a comforter blanket, it had just enough weight to feel snuggled.

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Bean Bag Chair Lightweight and versatile, we wanted to obesrve the bean bag with Roshni’s housemates.

Adding the wonton mechanism, we wanted George ( Grey) to test out the mechanism. He stated that its a nice snuggle and light squeeze but the bean bag back support can need an up do.

We asked another housemate, Adam (Green) to test out if there were 4 flaps; 2 coming from the shoulders and 2 for the lap. Waffle said that despite that it is comfortable to have 4, the user experience may strain their arm, shoulder, and back just to get teh flap over to their shoulders

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Sketch, Form, & Dimensions With the right direction we were heading, we finalized the sketches where we want to incorporate “flaps� that were inspired from the wonton wraps and applied to a simple function onto our idea chair shape that resembles to a wonton dumpling.

The colors and design was based on getting that bubbly, rounded aesthetics of a dumpling. The dimensions were based on the previous measurements that we both went out to do for the market research. .

We wanted for a rounded shape that looks like the dumping’s top folding while retaining a shape that brings the college vibe

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Materials & Color Theory The dumpling and the steam bamboo container has a very natural color tone of neutral to warm colors. The dark brown gives a deep texture of the heat while the neutral tan wonton wrapper expresses a soft and elegant touch.

Inspired from those tones of colorway, we thought its a good idea to find materials that could almost resemble to the cuisine.

We looked into various types of materials and we concluded that a tan throw blanket could give that elegant touch like the wonton wrapper from its velvet exterior touch while providing the warmth the user would like to be in.

For the deep dark brown at the tip of the lid, we easily thought about putting dark brown leather to give a cool mix towards the fabrication.

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Bill of Materials Keeping in file on how much we purchase to make this chair, it helped us determine our budget and we reached our initial goal of spending below $300.

We priced it where if this chair were to be made in a mass production, it should relatively cost low enough to make but have the opportunities to increase the price point to bring in the profit for the company.

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Item

Description

Area of Construction

Quantity

Price Per Unit

Total Cost

Resource

Wood

2 in. x 6 in. x 14 ft. Premium #2 and Better Douglas Fir Lumber

Frame Support

5

7.44

37.2

Home Depot

Quit Batting Netting

Buffalo Batting Comfort-loft Batting 90''

Cushioning/quilting stablizer

1

3.19

3.19

Home Depot

Cushion Stuffing

Fairfield 30''x10' Cushion Wrap

Cushioning support

1

29.99

29.99

Joannes

Brown Leather

2yds Leather Fabric

Exterior side

2

34.99

69.98

Home Depot

Canvas

1 yds Tan Canvas Fabric

Surface fabric before putting on throw blanket

1

9.98

9.98

Home Depot

Fabric

Alpine Upholstery Velvet Tan Fabric

Seat Surfacing, texture, & softness

10

$7.75

$77.50

Joannes Fabrics R Us, Fabrics.com

Stitching

Coats & Clark Extra Strong & Upholstery Thread 150 yd

Binding frabic together

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1.49

1.49

Joannes Fabrics R Us

Comforter

Threshold Full Size Bed Doyve Comforter

Padding for Flaps

1

20.99

20.99

Home Depot

Zipper

42 In Brown Sport Lite Zipper

Open/closure exposure for the polyfill refill

1

2.5

2.5

Joannes

Stuffing

Micro bean Polyfill Refill

Stuffing for the chair

1

19.99

19.99

Joannes

TOTAL:

272.81

20 Production Process As light as we want the chair to be, we were thinking coming back to the bean bag chair. Our goal was give the user a proper seating without the effort of refluffing it like how a traditional bean bag would do.

We deconstruct a current bean bag chair and added more fabric to our desired dimensions. As we removed all of the bean polyfill out, we excecuted a different alternative. We inserted memory-foam like cushioning to fill in the space. We didn’t want the feeling of the bean polyfill because it gives a unpleasant seating experience.

As soon as we were able to get into the shape and composition that we intended to, we then applied batting before fabrication.

The brown leather fabrications then comes next before we stitch it with the fleece throw blanket for the comfort. We then stitched the flaps at the far end corners of seat so that there’s flexability to where we want the flaps to create when the user holds them.

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Final Model

With its iniviting flaps, the user will quickly want to sit in it. We carefully chose the colors so that the soft tone of the tan fleece will catch the user’s attention. The graceful dark brown leather brings in a subtle, clean look that carries out the tan fleece nicely.

The back view has its creases because we purposely wanted to reminsce the essense of the dumpling presentation as it has the intricate folding creases that the chefs apply to hold the meat inside.

The flaps are hanged on each side so that it gives an illusion of wings yearning to hug the next person sitting inside the chair.

Different Angles

In Use

Lounge and hang out

Cuddle and take a nap

Comfort by the hug

Wrap the warmth

Room for Opportunities?

As we look into the Hugger as an overall chair, we thought, “What can we do further out on its aesthetics so that it can feel more functional?�

Orginally, we just saw the flaps as a feature but we want do more to make it look theres more ways to utilize the feature.

Simple Yet Functional We felt like the flaps needs to have a sense of security of its own too. Adding buttons may do the trick. To have the flaps be held onto the chair visually helps the user see that the flaps are in place without feeling loose or out of place.

From selecting multiple options, we narrow it down to two options. We ended up choosing the left side only because it doesn’t create any distractions that the right side would have.

How Does It Look?

Doing just that, the buttons definitely achieved our goal. The buttons gives that overall look that makes the flaps more organized and held in place.

At Home- In Use

In context

Cuddle and take a nap

Thank you.