So I’m doing a handbag design course.

Our second task, from week two, was to design six handbags for our client. Like a good User Experience Architect, I started with six usage scenarios…

I’ve also listed each bag with the largest most likely items it needs to contain.

1. day bag for the office: laptop, A4 pages, iPad, kindle, …
2. day bag for running around the city: camera, kindle, A5 notebook, …
3. date night clutch: oyster, keys, credit card, phone, lipstick, …
4. weekender / overnighter / carry-on bag: shoes, 2 clothes changes, book, magazine, tickets, …
5. popping out to the corner shop clutch: phone, oyster & credit card, keys. (just the holy trinity, minimised)
6. emergency carrier bag: the ubiquitous shopper, in parachute silk. For your jacket if the day gets too warm, for the milk on your way home, for that amazon delivery that arrived at work.

And here are the sketches I came up with. I need to spend more time exploring alternatives for each, but our time on the course is very limited, and given my full time job has yet to be replaced with full time blogging and photography (I wish), I am constrained in what I can achieve.