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Tripod as Portable Standing Desk?
When your design combines two existing things
Here's an example of a designer simply repurposing two existing objects to find market success in a burgeoning product category. A firm calling themselves Intension Design* took a tripod and a 12" x 16" board, worked out a connector and branded it the Tripod Standing Desk.
I don't have actual sales data, but was surprised to see the object getting numerous press accolades. The object is billed as an ideal portable work-anywhere desk due to its small breakdown size, low weight (4.5 lbs) and height adjustability.
In addition to the $200 model shown above, they also offer the $380 Tripod Standing Desk Pro, which features a more robust tripod and a larger 16" x 28" worksurface. The tradeoff is greater weight (13 lbs).
For those using the object as a more permanent desk, a host of accessories are also offered.
*Biography-less companies like this have become frustratingly common. I was not able to find any information on the company nor the designer(s) associated with it. Further confusing matters, Intension Design is also the name of a design-build firm, and both are based in Southern California, though they do not appear to be affiliated.
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We have one of these. It’s garbage. Awkward to operate and adjust, heavier than necessary, easy to tip as always at least two corners of the top will be outside the triangle described by the base, the top doesn’t fit tightly, and the top interfered with the controls at the top of the tripod. Avoid.
Sometimes I ask myself how people are coming up with such ideas, as if they never did any kind of research of the market and its purpose of use.
The advertisment pictures for instance:
Would you ever go out in front of the office building into the park-area to build up your tripod and work there?
Would you really set up the tripod while doing Yoga or just put the laptop on the floor?
Would you really need a tripod to play guitar in the garden or is a music stand for 20$ more than enough?
Would you really place the tripod in the middle of the stairway so noone else can pass you?
Ever been to a construction site? A pile of bricks, a metal barrel, a table(??) is your biggest friend there.
Tripod Pro: looks quite heavy, as if the guy is working his trizeps and farmers-walk.
Besides that, it doesn't fit to any interior style...I guess I stick to a 260$ hight-adjustable IKEA table, than to a 250$ Tripod + really expensive acessories, I mean...what is even the mouse extension? Is this for ants?? This should be at least...3x bigger than this!
Okey, of course it comes in handy in other situations, but for me this is an example of over-engineered and too expensive for its purpose.
What do you guys think?
Happy designing!
Scrap piece of 2x3 sheet of plywood and a $10 tripod mount and this is yours if you already have the tripod. Plus tripods can be had for little as less than fifty bucks if you don't. It's not a bad idea, but it's one you toss up on wikihow as a DIY project, not try and sell for three figures.
Is it a STANDARD tripod, can be dual purpose?
The Pro version there has some interesting potential. Common to walk through a factory and see controls engineers propping their laptops up on improvised desks (luxury examples include 55 gallon drums, upended cable spools).