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Sometimes new designs hold onto old features that are no longer necessary.
Your typical catchall has a lip, is largely flat, and is made from a hard material. This works great as a food tray, but for a catchall tray, it's not ideal. Your stuff is rarely "caught" neatly and the loud noise is not nice to hear, especially at night.
So, we made some tweaks to create the tray we wanted by our bedside tables and near our front doors. The Little Cloud Tray softly catches your pocket dump (or other valuable things) and keeps it all organized until another day returns.
Let us know what you think. Do you miss the lip?
Transcript
The first frustration that I have with the traditional catch all tray is that they have a lip. It's taking the bad surface and folding it up to create some molds to allow your fingers to get underneath rank quickly and easily move it. But for a catch all, to me, the whole point is that it's stationary. The lip is not only unnecessary because you're not gonna be moving this from room to room, but it also reduces the kind of overall stability. And so the very first simple intervention, filling that volume to create the solid block, not only does it make it actually a more kind of stable object, there's no longer this implication of mobility. So with that lip gone, it brings us to my next frustration. They usually have these short walls, predominantly this big flat surface, isn't actually so great that catching your things as you're coming home at the end of the day. What we wanted to do was an overall more rounded form, a deeper container, which creates a little bit higher walls, increases the kind of catch area, something that you can toss your stuff into and reliably know that it's gonna contain it. But there's still one remaining frustration, frustration, and that is I want something that is not gonna be loud and not gonna be delicate, which brings me to the material that we selected to make this tray in. Tier. It gives you this soft catch every single tier, unlike the traditional wooden catchall.