Grace Gerber

Industrial Design, 2024

Opening up your trunk after a grocery run to discover smashed items can be frustrating, especially when you weren't the one responsible for loading them. 

While it is never intended for groceries to be crushed, curbside pickup associates tasked with the loading of groceries often grapple with many uncertainties, such as where to place items, time constraints, and preventing damage to the customer’s groceries. 

Enter the Honda Trunk Shelf, a practical solution to these concerns. Integrated into the 3rd-row seats of your Honda vehicle, this pull-out shelf creates additional vertical storage space specifically designed for fragile items. Its quick and easy deployment ensures extra loading space that safely separates delicate products from larger items below. No matter who loads the groceries in the trunk, the Trunk Shelf instills confidence that the groceries remain undamaged. This, alongside the other components of Honda Grocery Assist, enhances the customer’s grocery shopping experience.

Grace Gerber is graduating in Spring 2024 with a bachelor's degree in Industrial Design with a minor in Engineering Sciences. With Grace’s background in both design and engineering, she is passionate about building better collaboration between the two fields. Grace also loves to bring people’s ideas to life, often using mediums such as virtual reality and 3D printing. As she continues to grow as a professional, Grace hopes to use her empathy to connect with users, her co-workers and to create meaningful products.

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