Pasefika and her wallet

During the design class last week we were asked to design a tailor-made wallet for a friend. My partner is Pasefika, so my task is to design a unique wallet for Pasefika. We experienced a complete design process. From drawing the look a wallet in your mind, to interview your partner, and then develop your ideas. I feel that I have a clearer understanding of the design process.

For Pasefika, she barely carries a wallet and usually puts her coins in her bag, but she needs a wallet that she can carry her notes and cards around every day when she goes out, she also wants it to be made of leather and have a small size with a zip, but no foldings. These are the information I collected from the first interview, I get a broad idea of what I am heading for, but it is not personalized enough. So then I asked her a few more questions on her hobbies and personalities, and I get more details that I could use to make her wallet more unique. For example, I noticed that she loves to listen to music and usually needs to carry an earphone with her every day, and she is forgetful and happens to lose stuff all the time, and she has a habit of wearing jackets every day.

Then due to a lack of time, I only sketched 2 designs down, and I asked her for feedback. She said she liked the idea of having a tracker in her wallet ( the second design) but she likes the way the wallet looks in the first design. So I combined the two designs in the final design. And I prototyped it to show how the wallet works.

Final design:

This is the front of the wallet, it includes a photo of herself and a zip to keep her notes. The red thing is meant to be her earphones, so I designed a small buckle to store her earphones to make it more organized. The thing on the right bottom side of the wallet is a hanging buckle that Pasefika could connect to her jacket, it could change in its length so that if she needs it she could take it out easily without unbuckling it.

This is the back of the wallet, it is more simple, it just contains some pockets for cards and a chip of the tracker.

Pasefika is satisfied by the end prototype I created. And the process is quite smooth despite sometimes we ran out of questions during the interview.

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