Högskolan i Skövde

A stationary computer case focusing on portability and sustainability has been developed in cooperation with the computer hardware manufacturer Fractal Design. The target group was early set to computer builders on a professional as well as an amateur level and gamers that are using stationary computers. To improve the portability and sustainability of a computer case a gathering of data was done early in the project. This consisted of user testing sessions as well as surveys, literature studies of materials, life cycle and sustainability analysis.

To get a large amount of ideas an idea generation session was done in cooperation with the users to be able to discuss solutions and to get more insight. With these ideas as a basis, more concepts were generated with help of charts and a large number of them was later prototyped to test the functions and compatibility with PC components. To select a concept, close contact with the company was kept to evaluate concepts with them as well as using concept selection charts and user tests. When a concept was chosen, it was going through engineering methods like FMEA and FEA to evaluate the construction, which kept the design process iterative. A final design was later achieved and was developed to reach up to the demands of users and the company.