After the prolonged COVID-19 pandemic, we have entered the New Normal phase with all adjustments and adaptations to new post-pandemic habits. Throughout 2020 and 2021 cycling has become a trend for a healthy lifestyle that people are interested in. With the rise of people cycling, sales of bicycles and their supporting equipment such as apparel have also increased. Seeing the trend of cycling and commuter bike riders who use bicycles as the main mode of transportation for daily mobilization, this becomes a potential for designing cargo pants for commuter bike riders with a sustainable design approach. Cargo pants are versatile pants that prioritize utility with various compartments that can fit various user items. Exploration of the features and systems in the design product is expected to meet the needs of commuter bike users and provide alternative products to users.

The implementation of Community Activity Restrictions set by the government during the COVID-19 pandemic encouraged people to pursue gardening as a hobby while undergoing independent isolation or quarantine at home. The increasing selling price of ornamental plants and the emergence of various equipment products mark the guard. This study aims to determine the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on increasing the hobby of gardening and to identify consumer preferences in purchasing gardening equipment products. The benefit of this research is to produce recommendations for gardening equipment designs that are desirable to consumers. Quantitative methods were used to describe trends in consumer behavior through online surveys of one hundred people who have a gardening hobby. Based on the analysis of the questionnaire, it is known that the COVID-19 pandemic has impacted the gardening hobby in the community. The three most essential tools in gardening are pots, watering tools, and shelves. In choosing a pot, the prominent factors considered by consumers are design, material, and price. The types of pots most respondents chose were plain earthenware pots and white plastic pots. Most respondents choose high-straight iron and wood-iron shelves or minimalist iron shelves. Regarding to pot decorations, respondents chose metal-wood pot stand, or rattan pot stand, over other decorative products such as pot hangers or fabric pot covers.

Batik belongs to an Indonesian cultural heritage that has spread throughout the archipelago and produces various motifs displaying the characteristics of each region. Compared to other types of batik, written batik requires more patience and perseverance during the manufacturing process. The results of surveys conducted on five hand-drawn batik craftsmen in Samarinda, namely D'Five, Batik Putri Syafril, LKP Atiiqna, Lilis Batik, and Borneo Craft Indonesia, indicated that even though the times have been modern, the process of batik making still uses things at home without paying attention to convenience while doing batik activities. The design of this workstation aims to facilitate batik activities, especially at the stage of tracing the motifs onto the fabric and embroidering. The redesign of this batik workstation employed a design analysis by considering the needs, activities, systems, ergonomics, anthropometry, placement, materials, and colors through a qualitative method. This sort of method was carried out by observing problems directly at the location, conducting interviews with craftsmen, and documenting the tools used. The result of this research is the compilation of a workstation design prototype having a modern design style that highlights the functionality of the product. It focused on the process of tracing batik motifs from paper onto cloth and proceeding to the imprinting process, which can be done at one workstation. It presents the features of a tracing area that can be tilted according to tracing needs, the integration of a lightbox, and a focus lamp that can be turned on at any time, as well as innovations in cloth rollers and webbing to ease the cloth pulling and rolling.

The work from home concept has become a common work system to reduce the rate of spread of COVID-19 cases. The adjustment of the portion of working in the office only below 50% in the next few years. Unfortunately, the impact of working from home is the flexibility of working time. There is no dividing wall between work time and personal time. Increased workloads and work delays often occur which ultimately affect the performance of workers. The work desk design development could be alternative solution. Referring to the trend of furniture design in the next few years, smart furniture design is becoming a trend that is in demand and needed to improve the quality of life. Smart furniture includes the application of intelligent systems / controllers to furniture designs in the form of sensors and actuators that are tailored to user needs. Research was conducted on the configuration analysis of smart office desk designs for the needs of working at home. The results are recommendations for the layout of user detector on the desk, the process of integrating the desk and the user detector, the final design, the design requirements and objectives in the development of a smart office desk.

Ornamental plants are plants that have aesthetic value in terms of color, shape, and characteristics. Planting and maintaining ornamental plants has now become a hobby that housewives are interested in, especially in the Palaran sub-district, East Kalimantan. Housewives take advantage of their free time to do quality and business value things and generate side income, one of which is farming. The ornamental plant business is an agribusiness business. Agribusiness is a business activity of cultivating agricultural products both on a narrow and wide scale. However, it is difficult to find a contractor, demotivating housewives in the ornamental plant business. This raises the need for technology that can provide information, bring together sellers and contractors in a practical way, with minimal costs, able to communicate and transact at any time. From these problems, an Android-based Mobile E-Commerce application was designed using the UX Interface by JJ method. Garrett. The application that has been designed is then tested for usability using a measuring tool for effectiveness, efficiency, and user satisfaction. The usability value obtained is 88.69%. This proves that the application designed has helped users in caring for ornamental plants and has created a desire to do ornamental plant business because they get relevant price recommendations and information on what plants are currently hot so that the collection of ornamental plants which can be of commercial value.

Cooking is a routine in the household to fulfill basic human needs. This study examines the development and changes in cooking activities in Sundanese society, characterized using tools, the cooking process, the efficiency of cooking procedures, and the values adopted in cooking activities. The approach used in this study is an ethnographic design approach and participatory observation. The purpose of this study is to observe changes in rice cooking activities and their transformation in terms of cooking utensils design, cooking process, and cooking habits, as well as their effect on changes in rice cooking design and activities with a case study of traditional houses in Sundanese people. The habits and development of traditional rice cooking utensils and traditional cooking habits and their significant changes in semi-modern and modern products in traditional Sundanese houses in Kampung Naga, Tasikmalaya, West Java were observed in a participatory manner. The findings of changes and developments in culture, habits, processes, and designs on rice cookware products are used as a basis for market segmentation for rice cookware products which are divided into two main market segments which can later be used for the needs of the target users to design products with cultural values, product efficiency, and the value of the product to the user. The two main segments are the home and business segments, which are divided into more specific segments. Specific segments for the home segment are ordinary and extraordinary households. In contrast, the business segment is divided into accommodation providers, food and drink service providers, and other service sectors.

Education is an effort to improve human resource quality and growth in a country, especially for those who have disabilities. According to the Central Bureau of Statistics, in 2020, as many as 5% of Indonesia’s population are disabled. Autism is one of the pervasive intellectual disabilities in children that hinders the development of cognitive, language, behavior, communication, and social interaction. In 2019, the work vacancy for the disabled only covers 0.28% of the general job opportunity in Indonesia and further decreased by 0.1% in 2020. Therefore, to improve the human life quality of the disabled, an appropriate education system and facilities that apply Universal Design compliance to their needs were essential. The uses 5 steps of Design Thinking methods consist of Empathize, Define, Ideate, Prototype, and Test methods are hopefully will resolve the problem systematically, in detail, and accurately. The result produced multifunction furnitur by applying FURNURTURE, which stands for Furniture and Nurture, as the design concept. FURNITURE has several functions, namely; an education facility, a therapeutic facility, and storage by applying the Universal Design principle. Hopefully, the design, product, and design principles could stand as a model for other autism educational facilities and services.

The fashion industry is one of the creative sectors that has significantly impacted Indonesia's economic growth. During this pandemic, the Ministry of Industry held a training program to spur the competitiveness and productivity of the textile and textile product (TPT) industry so that they can continue to run their businesses amid the pressure of the Covid-19 pandemic impact. The industries must be more innovative to be competitive in domestic and foreign markets. In this study, purple sweet potato peel was applied as a textile coloring pigment, considering its novelty and innovation value. It is expected to be an innovation in Indonesian creative industry products. So far, in the realm of textiles and fashion, purple sweet potato peel has been used as a natural textile dye, but it is less popular than other natural dyes. In addition, in Indonesia, purple sweet potato is a plant that grows throughout the year, with high quantity production and consumption rates, so that the waste of it can be used as a natural textile dye. To optimize the use of purple sweet potato peel, this study analyzes the effect of indicators on the dyeing process: the dyeing duration and the fixative used

In the context of design diversification, exploring forms to optimize product operations is no longer sufficient. One of the goals of design diversification is to emphasize meaning that goes beyond just the function of a product. This provides an understanding of how the product communicates with users. Design development aims at how design can communicate and persuade. Therefore, communication is related to the language system. This paper aims to analyze how the language system works which applies equally to product design. In this context, the product acts as text. The product sample selected in this study is the second-generation Avanza-Xenia car based on the consideration that the car is one of the cars that has a facelift concept with many variants. The study uses a visual structure approach. The analysis is carried out by extracting the structural elements of the car into the main elements and supporting elements, then matching them to the text structure. The results of the study show that providing multiple design variants on supporting elements of the car is the same as using alternative words to emphasize meaning

Every year the Indonesian people are estimated to contribute 0.48-1.29 million metric tons of plastic waste to the oceans. Polystyrene (PS) takes more than 500 years to decompose naturally among the types of trash thrown away. For local producers, PS waste recycling requires more processing than other thermoplastic waste processing. On the other hand, PS waste processing is interesting to develop because of its shiny and transparent nature, so it is used as a jewelry product that cannot absorb a lot of waste. Therefore, this study aims to explore the uniqueness of PS recycling further so that it can be utilized optimally by local plastic waste recycling business actors. This study uses primary data collection methods such as observation, focus group discussions, and experiments. Experimental stages are carried out to find the proper treatment and get a unique texture and shape different from other materials. Furthermore, an analysis is made using the material-driven design method to see the value of the material. This analysis produces material visualization concepts such as uneven, imperfect, artless, translucent, and luxurious, which are suitable to function as vocal points for room styling. This study found that deficiencies in processing existing PS recycled materials can be overcome effectively and efficiently by melting 75 percent of the shredded plastic.