
Beta desk
Kitchen Budapest, a creative community, needed a new tool that lifted working efficiency to a higher level. This project started as an exercise & experiment on how a community can create a utility for themselves, with the help of design thinking.
The team initiated research with a week-long workshop involving our co-workers. We gathered opinions on how to improve a steady work tool: the office desk. As the team consisted of a wide variety of creatives (programmers, sound designers, researchers, and start-up teams), the task became complex, and the demands were high for all.
The workshop was followed by a deep investigation and a series of experiments to uncover co-workers' real needs. After drawing conclusions, the design team wrote a punctual brief and generated ideas accordingly.
Long hours were spent staring at colorful Post-it sketches. Lastly, a matrix of ideas was conceived, which were carefully grouped by the brief’s bullet points. Concepts were developed further in CAD, and the team could move to the workshop to create actual mockups. The successful prototypes are being tested in-house.
The licensor of this project is Kitchen Budapest.
Project manager: Gergö Csikos
Team members: Beáta Csortán, Benjámin A. Balla, Zsófi Ujhelyi





