Category: MGT 4952 Product

I did my final project in transforming my old idea into something that has more value in today’s technology era. After a deep thinking I came up with the design of having an exclusive all in one in-built Microsoft digital bookshelf. This is like having your gadgets such as desktop, laptop physically attached to your bookshelf. We currently living in a world, that keep evolving and advanced in technology. I thought could be another idea that could eliminate the waste of storing books psychical and reduce the amount of money spent in buying several gadgets and books.

This design is to serve purpose of what a desktop would usually do, it has access to all Microsoft services, being able to stores files, connect other devices to this digital bookshelf. It will help in the amount of stored physical books and reduce waste. I also decided to design the bookshelf to have a bit of extra storage space for other items that can be stored while working for an easy reach. With extra features of two USB Ports, lamp and wireless connection

Here is the link of my video. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1iQc3KE5VEGq9-M2OQi2dogXnkukIJgJh/view?usp=sharing

Before I showed her my design, I decided to speak to her and just make sure I picked out the right problem that she was actually facing. I live with my sister, I want to believe I literally know everything that is up to her. So I spoke to her to know if this is really a problem she is facing or she is just being very picky with finding a bookshelf. She laughed and said “I am actually so frustrated with this because normally I am a picky person but this time if I can find something closest to this bookshelf I had go for it, I just don’t want my money to go to waste”. While I was designing the solution, I had these questions and thought in my head about if this is what she really need and not just want, I thought about why she needed this exact type of design, the decisions she has made of not wanting to waste her money on any other kind of bookshelf if it’s not the exact type of bookshelf that will satisfy her need so she doesn’t have to keep changing and I am happy I thought of this because she had actually tried other options that was available to her. 

she needs this exact type of bookshelf because she is killing two birds with one stone. At her school she’s giving weekly engineering projects, where she will be using her desktop, laptop and some books to help her with her given projects. A bookshelf that can contain all three with a large table space will be perfect for her to do her projects without interruptions or distractions from moving to a table to another. I totally understood her, she was also concerned with wasting her money because bookshelves like that aren’t so cheap as she ended up returning the bookshelf she tried earlier. She needs a bookshelf that will be for the long term and not just short while.

Because she was pleased with the design I made for her, we visited home improvement stores, home depot, home goods, ikea and target. We didn’t want to buy from ikea because their items don’t last for long time, so we were bit skeptical from buying their products, I spoke to an employee and they didn’t have the designed we needed, although the employee actually saved us the stress and told us what we could do to solve this problem. In Ikea there is how you can buy parts of a bookshelf and table and because I was the one that personally designed the bookshelf, I knew exactly the kind of pieces we needed in order to build this. Ikea sold to us the individual parts we need in order to bring this bookshelf to live and this is actually going to work. She was really happy and thankful for this, a problem that had been troubling her for a year one is about to be solved. 

My sister and I moved into a new apartment at the end of March 2020. It took us lots of time to get our things together for this new apartment because that was exactly when this pandemic began to hit everyone. She was sent out of her school dorm, leaving her to pack all her school belongings at a very short period of time.

It has been almost a year, since we put our apartment in order, I visit my sister’s room on almost a daily basis, and there is just this huge pile of textbooks stacked at the side of her room. She told me she placed three orders for a bookshelf but canceled it because that is not what she’s looking for, she has tried finding some alternative but it is either too big or too small or it is missing an important part she need in the bookshelf which is a joined table at the middle of bookshelf.

Honestly at first I thought she was just being annoying looking for her perfect bookshelf, when should just easily order something to remove the mess of books laying on the floor. But I actually understood where she was coming from, my sister is an electrical engineering major, she works a lot on the desktops and uses tons of books when she’s studying. She likes when her things are all put together in one lace and easily accessible to reach, she needed a table that was big enough for her desktops and also to contain her books, all in one.

I live with my sister and this is one of the problems she is currently facing, so I decided to design her perfect bookshelf using a tinker cad, a three layer bookshelf with a joined table and come with two extra spaces and the side of the bookshelf. I know she will appreciate this because it’s something she has been looking for years, I searched online to see what was really different from mine and most of them with tables where too small, didn’t have the wall layers or they were designed for much better space. I wish i could actually bring it to life and get it for her lol. I believe this is the kind of bookshelf she wants, solving her problems, a table to fit her desktops while she can easily access her book right in front of her.

I grew up in a family who loved to play chess. Although I wasn’t really a fan of it because my siblings had always beat me at the game. My dad made it like tradition, every Sunday we play chess as a family because he knew up learning it. I always enjoyed that time, everyone coming together bonding and we all play in the living room.

So I decided to go a Tinkercad drawing on creating a chess.

Here are the tutorials I did on the Tinkercad site.