This degree project has been carried out by Niclas Andersson and Sebastian Zwahlen, students of the Innovation and Design Engineering Program at the Faculty of Technology and Science at Karlstad University. The project was carried out during the spring 2010 and includes 22, 5 ETCS credits. Initially the group had contact with the company Mavis möbler AB. Mavis gave the group the task of developing a new bedroom product. To assess the needs and problems of bedroom behaviors, an extensive questionnaire and several interviews were made. This became the starting point for further work. According to the results uncovered during the market research a vast problem was found with temporary clothing storage. As much as 68% of respondents store their clothes either on a chair, a couch, the bed or on the floor. The students saw this as a perfect opportunity to further investigate the options of temporary clothing storage (the students saw this as a bad alternative to storage). Detailed preliminary investigation of current solutions was made, where the students found that the valet stand was the best current alternative. To find a number of different solutions to this problem, several idea generating methods was used. Many of these ideas developed into concepts, which later in the process were evaluated using different technique. The final solution was developed through sketches, CAD models, drawings and prototypes. The prototypes were designed like a large hanger mounted on the wall. The final solution fulfilled all of the requirements set for temporary clothing storage. The final results were presented at the annual degree exhibition on May 26th 2010 at Karlstad University.

Arbetet startades med en undersökning av problemet med stökiga klädhögar och utvecklades sedan till ett projekt med fokus på förvaring av kläder och på hur problemet med klädhögar kan förhindras. Med hjälp av litteratur, marknadsanalys, enkätundersökningar och observationer lades grunden för projektet. Parallellt som nämnda metoder genomfördes pågick också olika idégenereringsmetoder och skissande på olika koncept. Slutsatsen av enkäter och observationer är att klädhögen beror till största delen på tidsbrist och/eller lathet. Fokus i projektet var att skapa en klädförvaring som är lättanvändlig, skonsam och bra för plaggen. Klädförvaringens lösning riktas mot bas- och vardagsplagg som ska återanvändas och som inte är tillräckligt rena för att placeras i garderoben igen. Resultatet blev en väggmonterad dekorativ klädförvaring som uppmuntrar användaren att använda sina kläder flera gånger innan de ska tvättas. Användaren trycker fast kläderna i springorna i materialet vilket innebär att det inte blir något tidskrävande vikande och förhoppningsvis kan resultatet bidra till färre klädhögar. / The project started with an investigation of the problem with messy piles of clothes and the focus was on the storage of clothes and how to prevent this problem. With the help of literature, market analysis, surveys and observations the base of the project was created. Different methods of inventing ideas and sketching on different concepts were made during the start up of the project. The conclusion of the surveys and observations is that a pile of clothes is largely due to lack of time and /or laziness. The focus in this project was to create a storage that is easy to use and which is gentle and good for the garments. The clothing storage’s solution was targeted for basic and everyday garments to be used again, but not clean enough to be placed in the closet again. The result is a wall mounted decorative clothing storage. The user presses the garment into the slots of the foam material. This means that there will not be any time consuming folding and it will hopefully prevent messy piles of clothes.