Rotho | Cutting board
Making use of the sink to create space and to simplify food preparation in small kitchens.
5 weeks | Individual Project | Umeå Institute of Design | Spring 2022
Brief
Collaborating with Rotho for our first semester project during my bachelor, the brief was to solve a problem experienced in the kitchen and to design for easy disassembly in the end of a product's lifecycle.
Tools learned
Solidworks
Keyshot
Keyshot
Process
We started out by interviewing users to find their pain points, analyzing the insights and choosing a problem to focus on. Out of these three main insights I chose to work with the challenges connected to cooking in a small kitchen.
Design opportunity
What if we could utilize the sink to extend the work space?
The ideation continued around this focus, refining the idea with the goal to design a tool that can create more space.
Concept
The final concept is a cutting board that creates more working space by utilizing the area over the sink.
With dimensions allowing the cutting board to cover the sink, more working space is created. The board features a set of matching bowls and colanders matching the negative shape, integrating in the cutting board. The idea is to simplify food preparation by sweeping down the cut food into the bowl, lifting up and replacing the bowl with an empty one as it becomes full and so leaving space on the cutting board for the next step in the recipe.
For those ingredients that hold a lot of liquid, the fitting colanders make further use of working over the sink.
For those ingredients that hold a lot of liquid, the fitting colanders make further use of working over the sink.
