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FabCycle Streamlined Workspace
18 Weeks | Business Project | 70% Individual 30% Team
Role in group:
Research and Ideation
Graphic Design
Product Design
Scene Renderings
The redesign of the Fabcycle workspace aims to arouse the public’s awareness of reusing textile wastes and increase the space efficiency to be more productive and sustainable
Stages
Background
Textile recycling in Canada is in need of resuscitation: The country’s current trajectory is as environmentally damaging as it poorly understood
Fabrics Annually Production, Worldwide
80billion
garments
120billion
tons of CO2
FabCycle is a collection service of textile waste in Vancouver, BC, Canada. It converts textile waste into reusable resources to promote and educate the public about textile recycling
Current Workflow
Business Model Analysis
Stakeholders Map
Interview
Personae
Problems Identified
User Journey Map
Customer
Staff
Opportunities Analysis
Customers
Staff
The Space Redesign
Since only half of the space is mainly in use, the workshop asks the participant to roleplay as the staff and aims to discover the problems they have been encountered with the current workflow
Participants
Fashion Related Student
Fabcycle Staff
The Workshop
Instruction
Exploring Opportunities to improve
The participants roleplaying as a staff to perform cerain staff tasks. Utilizing the floor plan with initial settings of furniture placed on the top (with images) and walking it through, while sharing your procedures and feelings to perform the given tasks.
Encounter Working Difficulties
With the negative emotions and difficulties identified in current workflows, utilizing the Tool Icon Packs to explore methods to encounter them.
Utilizing the Working Enviornment
The participants are given a blank floor plan to build out the potential setting of the workspace with the use of the Furniture Tags (with images). They will be asked to perform the tasks from the first activity again and describe how the new setting makes the workflow easier.
Carousel
Given the chance for the participants to look at each other floorplan, and adjust or add more ideas. Then, the participants will be asked to describe how the new setting makes the workflow easier.
Outcome / Reserach Findings
The Revised Space
Analysis
By considering the opportunities of increasing the efficiency of the space, The revised space utilization aims to build a streamlined workspace that offers a comfortable working yet pleasant shopping environment
Introducing The Streamlined Workspace
The transformation of Fabcycle workspace
Service Map
Service Blueprint
The Sample Wall
An overview of the in-store available fabrics
Fabric Introduction
Fabric Name & Price
FabSample
The multifunctional machine that allows the customer to scan, generate and browse fabrics, as well as load their fabric selections to pay in multiple ways
FabStation
The table workstation that equips the function of cutting, measuring, and weighting fabrics​
Fabid
FabID is a tool to help staff manage fabric efficiently with clean UI interfaces; and work as a portable device to process order alongside FabStation
