DISEÑO CONCEPTUAL DE UN PEQUEÑO ELECTRODOMÉSTICO CON MÚLTIPLES OPCIONES DE USO SIGUIENDO EL ENFOQUE DEL DESIGN TO LAST

Abstract

Nowadays there is a big variety of small electrical appliances for many functions and most of them are intended for task we usually do in the kitchen. It is common that different electrical appliances have the same or very similar main function, such as: heating a fluid (coffee maker or tea maker) or transferring heat to an object (bottle sterilizer or heater, food heater). Sometimes these products are designed just for a specific function, as in the bottle sterilizer or the heater, without considering how to apply them to other elements that could also be sterilized or heated. One of the design approaches that may guide the future of sustainable design is to design objects to last, increasing their use. This communication analyses the possibilities of integrating multiple uses to increase the life and use of a small electrical appliance whose main function is to heat, proposing a conceptual design and assessing the improvement in its expected use. Keywords: design to last; multiple uses; modular design