Name: Samuel Hayes

 

Project Title: Temporary Door Lock

 

Project Description: “To design and produce a portable, self contained security device, which aims to help increase and assure the users privacy and wellbeing.”

 

The aim of my final year project was to create a device that would work as a temporary and secure means of locking internal doors, which prior to the installation of my product would not have any form of permanent locking mechanism. I feel that this product is something that could be used at home, to heighten and improve home security, but ultimately envisage the product being more prevalently used within environments such as hotels, hostels and shared accommodation, giving the users greater peace of mind in often unfamiliar surroundings, and in doing so rendering the chosen location for application more secure and unlikely to suffer from crime.

 

Bio: Hello! My name is Sam and I’m a 21-year-old product design student from London, who currently lives and studies in Brighton. Growing up, I enjoyed nothing more than getting my hands dirty and making things out of the odds and ends I found around me, a passion which has not dwindled over the years, meaning that the process of working towards creating a product as part of my final year at university has been an absolute pleasure, and a challenge which I have revelled in.

 

I thoroughly enjoy the process of problem solving, and love to find creative solutions to everyday problems. It has long been a burning ambition of mine that the culmination of my hard work and enthusiasm for design would one day bring about the formation of an exciting and revolutionary idea or product; one that is simple in its approach, and effective in its execution.