Yuchao Lin

Yuchao Lin is an industrial designer and researcher who delves into exploring joyful, non-screen-based objects. Fuelled from neglected moments in life, he is pursuing the potential to make the physical world more vivid.

Education

2017-2021: Industrial Design, College of Design and Innovation, Tongji University, China

2022-2023: Design Products, Royal College of Art, UK

Work Experience

2021-2022: Industrial Designer, Bull Group , Shanghai

Awards

Good Design Award Winner 2022

IF Award Winner 2022

Relaxo is my brand, which using whimsical customized handle components to entice home-based workers to escape from work mode, and help counteract the time deprivation caused by hybrid working. It satirizes the notion of a space overwhelmed by work, highlighting the loss of work life balance.

Starting from the exploration of our subconscious “end of work behaviors”, we invite customers who share similar experiences to label the subconscious actions of different customers. By adding existing functional modules from the product library or co-designing new features with customers, we generate custom "Relaxo Handles." These handles are tailored to meet unique needs by utilizing user-friendly kits that can be easily assembled at home or in a local workshop.

The combination of aluminium profile 2020 and 3D printing technology has been chosen. Aluminium profiles offer a wide range of assembly possibilities and provide significant structural strength. On the other hand, 3D printing enables rapid production of unique shapes and functional prototypes for testing. In the subsequent stages of small-scale production, it allows for mass replication through mold casting.

Relaxo is a community organization that helps remote workers better distinguish between work and personal life.

The concept of working remotely for two days a week is being increasingly embraced by both companies and individuals. However, when you find yourself instinctively replying to work emails from the moment you wake up, anxiously checking your work platform repeatedly during office hours even when there are no immediate tasks, and still remaining in your work space after shutting down your computer, things seem to be going awry.

In the past, the transition from work mode to personal life was often buffered by a long commute. However, nowadays, we need faster and more efficient ways to navigate this transition period.

Relaxo aims to assist users who struggle with this by identifying the touchpoint during the transition phase at home, uncovering their unique behaviors associated with these touchpoint.

Then categorizing each individual's subconscious actions. It intentionally combines different modules that attract users' subconscious interactions, ultimately creating a customized "escape handle from work."