Earbuds For Productivity
Minimize office distractions to help productivity & focus
The Intention
With the product invention lab, Handmade, I was asked to help accelerate the hardware and software UX experience for a wireless earbud product. Yet to differentiate itself from other products on the market, the aim was for it to be oriented towards office and productivity environments.
Part of the task was to create new features for the hardware UX + companion app. How could we find creative ways for through an audio experience to keep people physically moving and be less distracted when they work? As Principal Product Designer, I worked with the Design Lead to tag-team creating and building out UX experiences.
My Role
Principal Product Designer
Visual Design
UX / UI Design
Animation
Extra Credit
Handmade – Amsterdam
René van de Hulsbeek – Product Design Lead and UX Design
Physical Interactions Video Overview:
Considerate Design
New Feature Development
Natural Interactions
Use “natural behaviors” to trigger interactions
Trigger IoT devices with customized actions
Wellness at Work
Subtle audio nudges to stretch and get moving
Integrated calendar for agenda coaching
Heart-rate monitoring to watch stress
Focused Concentration
Pomodoro Technique
(time-boxing)Do-Not-Disturb batched notifications for the office
Simplified music browsing
Productivity Driven
Simplified UI
Seamless transitions between devices
clear & confident
call muting
Part TWO
UX / UI
On this project, I was the Principal Product Designer and I worked with the Product Design Lead to jointly create new software features while defining hardware UX. After features were defined, we designed a mobile app for the earbuds.
Paper first! Sketchbook of feature ideas.
Simple Controls
Our idea with the interface of both hardware and app were simple and quick controls. For the application, I had us focus less on small buttons, but larger gesture-based interactions. And I looked at creating a music aggregator where one could define their mood of music with up/down swipes, and genres with a left/right swipe.
IxD + Visual Design: Two designers working in tandem and overlapping concepts
Left–right / beginning–end progress towards minimalist stylings
UI Prototype Animations
Final Visual Design
Branded color interface with dark theme for “Concentration” mode.
