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Hydrip
Clean water, in your dorm.
How might we simplify refilling and transporting filtered water in college dorms?
How might we simplify refilling and transporting filtered water in college dorms?
College dorm rooms don't have their own kitchen or bathroom, and students are left hauling heavy britas back and forth. The goal was a water filter that actually fits dorm life: portable, compact, and something you'd actually want to look at on a desk. The mechanism ensures no lifting - an essential problem space.
Mapping the existing market revealed a clear opportunity. Portable solutions lacked filtration. Filtered solutions were stationary and bulky. Nothing sat in the top-left — portable and technologically capable. That was the target.
Competitive landscape — portability vs. technology. Gap identified: portable + filtered.
Inspiration — rolling luggage, portable coolers, Stanley colour culture, pastel consumer trends
The first round of sketches explored the full space — pitchers, countertop units, backpack filters, modular dispensers. The recurring thread that kept appearing: a trolley format. Something with wheels. Something you roll, not carry.
Final design direction
The trolley format borrowed directly from carry-on luggage — extendable aluminium handle, rubber-coated wheels, a compact upright footprint. The extendable silicone pipe solves the refill problem: hook it to any sink tap, fill without lifting, detach and roll back.
Left: Extendable silicone pipe and handle detail / Right: GAC filter cartridge
Hydrip comes in four pastel colourways — Baby Pink, Sage Green, Ice Blue, and Soft Lavender. Inspired by Stanley's colour-culture approach: a product people choose not just for function, but because it feels like theirs.
Baby Pink / Sage Green / Ice Blue / Soft Lavender
Hydrip was designed to belong on a desk, not disappear under a sink. The in-context rendering shows it in a student setup — at home between a gaming chair and a monitor, as quiet and considered as everything else on the desk.
In-context render — Hydrip Ice Blue, student desk environment
An animation walkthrough of the Hydrip design — showing the product form.
Hydrip — product animation
The moment I committed to a college student as the user, half the decisions made themselves.
The trolley mechanic came from luggage, not water filtration. The best solution often lives in a completely different product category.
Offering four colourways isn't cosmetic — it's the difference between a utility product and a product people choose. Stanley proved that. Hydrip borrows the same logic.
