Design Professor David Morgan’s UX Design Work Featured in Crunch Lab Builds List
A futuristic BYU-designed, origami-inspired Flex Chair, cut out of a single piece of flat material and folded into shape, has made YouTuber Mark Rober’s Top 10 list of the coolest things built at Crunch Labs this year.
The Flex Chair, created by BYU design professor David C. Morgan and his students, incorporates research from BYU’s Compliant Mechanisms Research Group, led by BYU mechanical engineering professor Larry Howell. In a Nov. 2 video post, Rober spotlights the chair at #7 on his list of Crunch Lab builds in the past year, and credits BYU compliant mechanisms researchers for the innovative design.
Morgan and design students, now a part of the College of Fine Arts and Communications, showed their designs at Milan Design Week and launched Wasatch Design Collective, a co-op of industrial designers, to share their products.
Read the full University Communications article and view the video by Julie Walker here.