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- Project starts24 June 2020
- PrerequisitesMust have completed a Fundamentals project or equivalent work experience
- Places remaining0
- Project Duration7 weeks
- Course Price This project is part of the Career Launcher UX Course
The Brief
IKEA is a Swedish-founded multinational group that designs and sells ready-to-assemble furniture, kitchen appliances and home accessories, among other useful goods and occasionally home services. It has been the world’s largest furniture retailer since at least 2008.
Today, IKEA’s overall ambition is to become people and planet positive, and to inspire and enable many people to live a better everyday life within the limits of the planet. To do this, IKEA are transforming into a circular business. The circular economy is a new way of looking at the relationship between consumers, products and the companies that create them.
This brief focuses on the usage life cycle of children furniture products by considering its usage through a circular economy lens. Typically, children furniture is only used for a relatively short period of time as children grow up and out of size/fashion with the products.
- Design a solution that encourages the re-use and re-distribution of children furniture that is no longer being used.
- Conduct 2 usability testing rounds to refine your solution and enhance the usability and engagement of your solution.
Your mentor will guide you every step of the way!
Meet Your Mentor
Matt Webb
Meet Your Mentor
Matt started his journey in design 22 years ago, revelled during the Flash Era, embraced the swing to accessibility and HTML & CSS, shiny web 2.0, HTML5, now the swing to user centric design and the rise of mobile and the plethora of digital devices and interfaces that now inhabit
Matt started his journey in design 22 years ago, revelled during the Flash Era, embraced the swing to accessibility and HTML & CSS, shiny web 2.0, HTML5, now the swing to user centric design and the rise of mobile and the plethora of digital devices and interfaces that now inhabit our lives.
More recently, Matt has been broadening his skills across a range of mediums & managing teams for media company Newscorp and currently running the user experience & design team at Fetch TV, Managing a 12 strong UX & Design team, based in Sydney and Kuala Lumpur covering a range of disciplines from Visual design, UI Design to UX Design and Research. Planning, designing and delivering the next generation of user interface for Fetch’s flagship TV Experience to the living rooms of over 1/2 million Australians.
Since owning his own Design Agency some years ago, Matt took a big interest in helping out and mentoring up and coming designers, he assisted in the creation and teaching of a web design course at Shillington College at the Sydney & Melbourne campuses and has given the occasional lecture at UTS in Sydney.
Where I’ve worked
- Head of UX @ Fetch TV
- UX Design Director @ NewsCorp
- Creative Director @ mobiDiction
Other projects in the course package
Head of UX Booktopia
Former UX Manager Google
Want to learn more about the Career Launcher UX course?
A Harness Project essentially allows you to jump straight into a real project with a real client to help solve a problem the company is facing. With a small group of 12 students and a mentor to guide you through each step of the way, you are left with real life experience by presenting a final solution to a problem and a portfolio piece that you are proud of!
