Design to the Rescue

If the past couple of years have taught us anything, it’s that parenting is really a 24/7 job, and it can be really tough to that while also doing your actual job. Thankfully, design is here to the rescue! At, least in the Henrico County Public Library. The building was due for a long-waited upgrade, so they asked their daily users what they would most like to see. One answer was overwhelming: to make their community feel welcome, they needed more accommodations for children. Visitors remarked that to use the computers, they would have to balance their children on their knee as they tried to work. Enter the design solution: a workstation that has normal accommodations for the adult computer user, as well as a children’s add on to keep them safe and contained, but able to be on their own while their parent works. The best part: this design is available for the home too!