| dc.description | In today’s throwaway society, we need long-lasting products that not only have durability and reparability but also sentimental values.
Unic is a coffee grinder with different bean-pouring sounds in different grind settings. By creating interesting sound elements into the product, the design is created for users to build memories and connections with it, and in the end to increase users’ willingness to keep and use the product to reach its full potential.This project started on a broad topic of how to make electrical products with a long life span and narrowed it down to using sound as a design element to increase the product’s emotional values. Coffee grinders have been chosen as an example to give context to the design process. Sketching, sound prototyping and user testings have been done to explore using sound to create an interesting and multi-sensory using experience.
I decided to move on with 2 ideas for the final prototyping, because one idea is conventional and the other one is radical, this gave me chance to test out how big the boundaries are in this concept. After testing, the first one has been chosen as it got more positive feedback and I see more potential in it | en_US |
