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Re: designing a business bike trailer

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  1. Quoted message said:

    I am planning to incorporate a laptop/suit bag in the trailer and i
    researching ways in which to do this optimally..

    Don't be too fancy: suit bags and laptop bags are widely available and
    people using them won't necessarily want another one. What they may
    well want is the ability to attach their existing items as painlessly as
    possible (maybe just a couple of strips of velcro!)

    For a laptop bag mount, some sort of decoupling might be attractive to
    reduce road shock from potholes etc. Note that this is a stab in the
    dark, as I don't have a laptop...

    Pete.
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    Peter Clinch Medical Physics IT Officer
    Tel 44 1382 660111 ext. 33637 Univ. of Dundee, Ninewells Hospital
    Fax 44 1382 640177 Dundee DD1 9SY Scotland UK
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  2. In article <[email hidden]>, Peter Clinch
    [email hidden] says...

    Quoted message said:
    Quoted message said:

    I am planning to incorporate a laptop/suit bag in the trailer and i
    researching ways in which to do this optimally..

    Don't be too fancy: suit bags and laptop bags are widely available and
    people using them won't necessarily want another one. What they may
    well want is the ability to attach their existing items as painlessly as
    possible (maybe just a couple of strips of velcro!)

    For a laptop bag mount, some sort of decoupling might be attractive to
    reduce road shock from potholes etc. Note that this is a stab in the
    dark, as I don't have a laptop...


    Aren't designers supposed to come up with their own ideas? Isn't that
    what makes them designers? If you just want something sensible
    implemented you give the requirements to an engineer.

  3. Rob Morley said:

    Aren't designers supposed to come up with their own ideas? Isn't that
    what makes them designers? If you just want something sensible
    implemented you give the requirements to an engineer.

    He still has full control over the colour scheme!

    Pete.
    --
    Peter Clinch Medical Physics IT Officer
    Tel 44 1382 660111 ext. 33637 Univ. of Dundee, Ninewells Hospital
    Fax 44 1382 640177 Dundee DD1 9SY Scotland UK
    net [email hidden] http://www.dundee.ac.uk/~pjclinch/

  4. "Rob Morley" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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    SNIP

    Quoted message said:

    Aren't designers supposed to come up with their own ideas? Isn't that
    what makes them designers? If you just want something sensible
    implemented you give the requirements to an engineer.

    I agree to a point - but isn't it better for a designer to try and make
    something that people will find useful with non or at least fewer of the
    "downs" that other products have to try and get it right for as many people
    as possible.

    What the designer thinks is a good idea may not be for others especially
    those with a similar product already.

    Take a product and make it better.

    Dave

  5. Rob Morley said:

    In article <[email hidden]>, Peter Clinch
    [email hidden] says...

    Quoted message said:
    Quoted message said:

    I am planning to incorporate a laptop/suit bag in the trailer and i
    researching ways in which to do this optimally..


    Don't be too fancy: suit bags and laptop bags are widely available and
    people using them won't necessarily want another one. What they may
    well want is the ability to attach their existing items as painlessly as
    possible (maybe just a couple of strips of velcro!)

    For a laptop bag mount, some sort of decoupling might be attractive to
    reduce road shock from potholes etc. Note that this is a stab in the
    dark, as I don't have a laptop...


    Aren't designers supposed to come up with their own ideas? Isn't that
    what makes them designers?

    Heavens forbid. One assumes a designer wants to meet a need not come up
    with a totally useless product nor find that he/she has duplicated an
    existing one. Otherwise you get totally useless things along the lines
    of the Warrington cycle farcility of the month.

    --
    John Kane, Kingston ON Canada

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