Modular Tea Caddy
description
New Tea Storing solution
Storing tea bags in a kitchen can be a headache. My kitchen has so many brands and types of tea, that the storage area can turn into a mess. So I set out to design a modular tea caddy system that can bring order to the situation.
Veering away from the traditional tea caddy — I studied the long history of design especially in China and Japan — I decided to create a system that can be customized by the user. Each caddy holds one brand of tea, and more caddies can be added as needed.
Most people do not have enough space to spread tea caddies out along their kitchen counters. I decided to connect the tea caddies with tiny earth magnets which can be used to mount them to a vertical metal surface. I added a twist. The user can remove tea bags one by one from an opening at the bottom of the caddy and then replenish them from the top.
Process
Sketches
Prototyping
Skills used:
User research
Sketching
Prototyping
Woodworking
User testing
Photography
Tools used:
Adobe Photoshop
Adobe InDesign