February 21, 2008 along with parents was on a pilgrimage to Rameshwaram.
Went to Madurai by train – in the morning, went to the bathroom, found it ir-resistable, water split all over the place. Went to the western toilet it was much worse than the Indian Toilet.
Remembered the design project done during my IIT Delhi days desiging of second class indian toilet. Still the condition is the same, what could be done to improve it.
Its a typical design flaw, through design we could defenetly find a solution for these problems.
The tought process started and there are similar public spaces and even lots or products that needs improvement in design. The thought of the designer and an entrepreneur mingled together to form a business model or atleast a forum for capturing all these designflaws.
Took a cab from Madurai to Rameswaram, on the way stopped for Breakfast.
On a piece of paper started noting down
A site to document common design problems that are there in every ones surroundings and highlight solutions for them.
A portal where people can login and post pictures of their design issues.
These issues are reviewed by a team by design-flaws and also by general public, possible solutions for these problems are brainstrormed and put on the website.
The designs publised are proprietary information of the site and authorization/ royalty needs to be paid to be used.
