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Zoning in on Function: Home Interiors Designed Like Apps

Posted: 08 Mar 2012 08:00 AM PST

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The physical flow of a home can make all the difference between a comfortable, pleasant space and an awkward and confusing one. Well-designed homes feature floor plans that make daily activities simple to perform because the functional spaces flow perfectly. Architect and webpreneur David Galbraith likens the ideal home design to the ideal web application design. In both architecture and web design, function makes all the difference. Both can be beautiful but sorely lacking in function; likewise, both can be functional but with no real style.

Galbraith’s concept of the ideal home design mimics the ideal website design: it features interconnected spaces with functions that flow smoothly from one space to the next. This case study house diagram is the result of Galbraith’s ideas about the way the interior of a home should be laid out. Active and passive spaces don’t simply coexist; they flow functionally, connecting through shared or similar uses and arranged into logical modules and zones. The purpose of one space relates to the purpose of the next space so that all of your daily activities move you along through the home in a perfectly sensible way.

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Handy Object Retention System Lets You Organize On the Go

Posted: 07 Mar 2012 02:00 PM PST

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Even if you are a relative technology novice, the chances are good that you have at least one technology gadget with you every day – and all of its associated accessories. Add to that your normal daily pocket-fillers like pens, gum, matches, ear buds and whatever else is important to keep on you, and you’ve got a whole jumble of stuff.

Cocoon launched the GRID-IT Wrap to help you wrangle all of that clutter with a minimum amount of frustration. The design is enticingly simple: a neoprene wrap holds your iPad, e-reader or MacBook air securely inside and snugly hangs onto the rest of your essentials on the outside.

Elastic straps adorn the exterior and will stretch to accommodate most of the items you would otherwise throw into a purse or laptop bag like power cords, screen wipes and sunglasses. There are no pre-defined places for anything, just a highly customizable “object retention system” that lets you keep your most important stuff close at hand.

The entire GRID-IT slips right into your laptop bag, backpack or briefcase once it is loaded up with your gear. Besides being satisfyingly geeky and suitably stylish, the tough organization system will save countless people from the frustration of finding that lone unwrapped piece of gum sticking to the bottom of their iPads.