1. BEFORE SURVEY:
Today people move more often apartments in New York City. People from ages 30 and up who have experience moving appreciate good quality furniture and would like to keep well made furniture with them even though they will continue moving. Sofa beds are hard to find for the limited space in apartments in New York City and are not easy to move because they are big and heavy. On the other hand sofa beds are flexible and people need to use them. People are searching for a comfortable, good quality sofa bed that can be easily moved around.

2. AFTER SURVEY:
With more experience of moving homes people (age: 30 and up) when buying a new piece of furniture look for better material and better aesthetics. They look for more exclusive/rare products. As people move homes more often today, people want to buy furniture that is light physically and visually as well. People want furniture that will last them a long time even though they may continue moving. Sofas and beds are the pieces of furniture that causes people the most problems and that is changed the most often. This target of people are searching for a sofa bed that is light physically and visually, with good materials, that is exclusive and aesthetically simple so it can fit in different style interiors. A sofa bed with no backrest will allow users to move their sofa in their living room as the sofa bed will have no direction and can be sat on in any way and will be easier to move from homes to homes.

3. What methods are you employing to learn more about your area of intervention? What do you need to know? Who are you utilizing?
-Survey mature target or people who have experience in moving above 30 years old.
-Look at target’s home, where their sofa bed is placed and ask all questions from survey.
-I need to know if my target would buy sofa bed today even though they don’t really need the bed aspect of it anymore, if the sofa bed still fits their criteria.

4. How have your findings shaped your argument?
-From my results until now I have found that moving sofas is for most people the piece of furniture that causes the most problems when moving home. My target are not necessarily looking for sofa beds, the people who said that they don’t really need the bed aspect of it is because of either the lack of comfort of the bed or because it is hard to find a sofa bed that is aesthetically simple that can fit in different style interiors. Therefore My target is looking for pieces of furniture that is of better material and better aesthetics, that is light physically and aesthetically so it can last a long time and be moved around.

5. How have you defined the appropriate context to apply your skills?
with my target, with people who have experience in moving and by being more specific with my prior hypothesis by narrowing my research to the sofa bed as for me the sofa bed is the most valuable piece of furniture.

6. List the attributes that your design action must have in order to be successful? What are the formal, functional, ethical, material, and cost criteria that you have uncovered through your analysis?
Better material and better aesthetics than previous sofa beds. Something light physically and visually. A sofa bed that will last a long time. That functions well as a sofa and as a bed. Cost is not so much a problem.

7. What are POSSIBLE designed outcomes of your process? Describe possibilities of how design can address the issue you have chosen?
Moving sofa beds when moving homes will no longer be a problem and will be kept for a long time. The perception of sofa bed will no longer be looked at as piece of furniture that doesn’t do both well the sofa and the bed, and that doesn’t fit in different still interior, but a sofa bed that will be looked at more as a special piece of furniture.

8. External Relationships
India Mahdavi- why hasn't she designed a sofa bed? look also at other big designers and ask this question.
Moving companies in Manhattan- how they handle the sofas and the problems they have with them.
Ikea, Crate and Barrel- how many new sofa beds they design each year, their progress, and who buys them.

9. Feedback
Almost all the people don't move their sofa bed at all in their living room. Most people have only owned one sofa bed in their life and discard it when they don't need the bed aspect of it anymore. Most people have problems with the sofa and the bed each time they move apartments. The sofa and the bed are the two pieces of furniture that are the most replaced.

10. Next steps
-Test with sofa that has no backrest to see what direction people approach it and how they sit in it. See if they move sofa around.
-Test different sofa beds from different companies. See what is the weight and size of each sofa bed.
-Research materials used in those sofa beds looked at above and compare with materials of sofas and materials of beds.