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DESIGNING MULTI-FUNCTIONAL

MAGNETIC STORAGE CUBES FOR USE

IN MODERN HOMES AND SCHOOLS

Using modern methodologies in the sectors and subareas of industrial design, where they currently
find only marginal application, brings a potential for interrelating technology, the arts, and fine arts.
To illustrate this, we present model procedures and options for designing a versatile storage cube
that integrates magnetic structural components facilitating easy and quick assembly. In addition
to being an item of real furniture, portable and readily convertible into a table or soft stool, the
cube supports children’s creative games and helps to develop their overall skills in the present-
day household and in pre-primary and primary education. By Martin Zach and Jaroslav Svoboda,
Mendel University in Brno, and Jiri Tauber and Premysl Dohnal, Brno University of Technology

n the development of a product, the actual design plays domain. Content-wise, product designing incorporates and
a crucial role. Manufacturers, renowned ones in particular, combines multiple aspects of a novel item to be marketed.
Iusually collaborate with designers, developers, and structural This item is, above all, expected to fulfil the purposes for
engineers to deliver functional products that satisfy mechanical which it has been developed and manufactured, reflecting the
safety and strength requirements. needs of the target user; in this context, the product has to be
Product and service making, however, also involves non- conceived with respect to the relevant ergonomics, complying

human factors, which markedly affect the design process with the user’s anthropometric data.
from the outset. Such factors, by definition, are natural and/ Further, the set of major product properties prominently
or artificial, comprising physical objects, materials, digital includes a visually attractive layout and technical feasibility.
technologies, and algorithms. Design is frequently employed as a marketing instrument, in
Importantly, artificial intelligence tools are widely relied addition to its basic roles, which generally subsume innovation,
upon, especially as they have revolutionised the entire design aesthetics, visuals, ergonomics, psychological action, and
social integrability; the principal task of the designer then
rests in interpreting the client’s visions.
Within technology, constant innovation is an imperative,

and effective designing strategies embody an indispensable
precondition for competitive market performance and viable
manufacturing economy.
The mechanisms are analysed and theoretically refined
through expert design management, a domain broadly
represented in economics study programs that teach production
control, corporate finance processing, and project procedures

in industrial manufacturing.
Regarding the practical outputs, these are then embedded