Jeff Burrell Design

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Quirky Slide Rider

Quirky Slide Rider

A toy concept that turns your stairs into a slide.

Role

Industrial Design

Client

Quirky

Year

2014

Recognition

Quirky's Most Viral Product Concept

Boy with arms raised sliding down a red and blue SlideRider slide laid over indoor stairs, a girl at the top

The project

Slide Rider was designed for Quirky Inc. as a product that could turn a staircase into a slide (based on the product idea submission by Tricia Cleveland).

Toys

The project

Toys

Slide Rider was designed for Quirky Inc. as a product that could turn a staircase into a slide (based on the product idea submission by Tricia Cleveland).

SlideRider concept sketches: red, blue and yellow marker drawings of folding stair slide ideas
Community phase 1 design direction: two product sheets comparing a slide with bumpers and a simple stair slide
Community phase 2 style direction: five color options for the slide and its carry case, including red and blue, and grey
Woman in a teal sweater strapping the red folded SlideRider case at the top of a staircase
Woman lifting the lid of the red SlideRider case to unfold it at the top of the stairs, with a blanket over the railing
Woman kneeling and unrolling the slide across the floor while a girl watches, at the foot of the stairs
Woman and a boy smoothing the blue slide surface as it unrolls from the red case
Boy with arms raised sliding down a red and blue SlideRider slide laid over indoor stairs, a girl at the top
Six website screenshots covering SlideRider, including Gizmodo, Incredible Things and CNET, each showing the stair slide
Facebook and Twitter posts sharing the SlideRider photo, with circled counts of likes and comments
Four celebrity tweets sharing the SlideRider stair slide photo
SlideRider concept sketches: red, blue and yellow marker drawings of folding stair slide ideas
Community phase 1 design direction: two product sheets comparing a slide with bumpers and a simple stair slide
Community phase 2 style direction: five color options for the slide and its carry case, including red and blue, and grey
Woman in a teal sweater strapping the red folded SlideRider case at the top of a staircase
Woman lifting the lid of the red SlideRider case to unfold it at the top of the stairs, with a blanket over the railing
Woman kneeling and unrolling the slide across the floor while a girl watches, at the foot of the stairs
Woman and a boy smoothing the blue slide surface as it unrolls from the red case
Boy with arms raised sliding down a red and blue SlideRider slide laid over indoor stairs, a girl at the top
Six website screenshots covering SlideRider, including Gizmodo, Incredible Things and CNET, each showing the stair slide
Facebook and Twitter posts sharing the SlideRider photo, with circled counts of likes and comments
Four celebrity tweets sharing the SlideRider stair slide photo
Woman wrapped in a green quilted blanket on a rocky shore, looking at a mountain lake, with a tent behind her

Element

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Woman wrapped in a green quilted blanket on a rocky shore, looking at a mountain lake, with a tent behind her

Element

Hands holding a phone showing the Outcomes4Me symptom tracker with a bar chart of symptoms over a week

Outcomes4Me Breast Cancer Care

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Outcomes4Me Breast Cancer Care

Blue bike dock with a touchscreen area map and a payment kiosk on a Boston sidewalk on a sunny day

Boston Circuits

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Blue bike dock with a touchscreen area map and a payment kiosk on a Boston sidewalk on a sunny day

Boston Circuits

A hand lifts a white pump array with thin pins over a clear well plate, linked by ribbon cable to a base unit with a blue glow

Draper PREDICT96 Organ-on-Chip

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A hand lifts a white pump array with thin pins over a clear well plate, linked by ribbon cable to a base unit with a blue glow

Draper PREDICT96 Organ-on-Chip