Product Design Analysis - Cabinet

Well like you know file cabinet is really use full in office but what if it contains bad design that makes us get fooled when use it? In one office there's new file cabinets fit under tables and are on wheels. During the first week they used the file cabinet, when they tried to open the top file drawer, they found themselves pulling the handle on the top (See arrow.) Guess what happened?

As shown in the photo on the above, the handle on the top doesn't open the top file drawer. Instead, it pulls the whole file cabinet out from under the table, which they accidently did quite often during that first week! The problem is that the handle to move the cabinet is very close to the top drawer and it is more obvious than the actual handle (right picture - See arrow) for the top drawer. Thus, it is easy to mistake the top handle as the handle for the top drawer. One is much more likely to want to open the file drawer than to move the cabinet, so the handle to move the cabinet should be less obvious. 

Product design analysis means studying how well a product does its job. When you are analysing the design of a product this might be several analysis:   

           1.     What is the function and purpose of the product?

Based On this bad Product, the top of file drawer doesn’t have a special function. It just makes misunderstanding to user. It’s useless at all. 

            2.      How do they work together?

Since the top of the drawer becomes the complement of the cabinet shaped, it doesn’t give any effort to user. It doesn’t work properly.

            3.      How well does the product do its job compared with other similar products?

The cabinet do its function but the top of cabinet as a complement not really show its function as well.

Since we have to see the shape, form colour, texture, and decoration. Especially, look at what materials are used and how they are cut, shaped, formed, joined and finished. With a good Combination may produce a good product as well. Based on that bad design, I think the from the usability, producer might change the drawer on the top of cabinet. 

review: Karel

source: baddesigns.com