Astro Web
ID Design •UX Design • 2 week• Sketch, Photoshop, Rhino 3d, Pen & Paper
Passion project for a design challenge to explore the marriage of a hardware and software product.
Can you design a headphone gaming experience for a living room environment?
Timing
1 week
Problem Context
How might we enable higher fidelity audio experiences at home?
How might we work around the constraints of small living spaces?
How might we design a low cost and scalable audio solution?
Deliverables
3 In depth interviews
Research informed MVP
Sketch prototypes
Sprint based design
Product Definition
From our in person interviews with gamers and other users living in small living spaces we realized there was a need for a scalable audio solution that could also deliver a high end sound experience. That was what Astro Web was built out of
UX Design
The UX design was to have a simplistic user interface that would compliment the hardware both aesthetically and from an experience standpoint. For this reason the goal was to create a low maintenance control scheme that would visually mimic the speakers location in the room to create an intuitive experience
Competitive Audit
I initially did a competitive audit of other products in the same realm that we could draw visual and interface inspiration from. This audit was used both to inform the design as well as the strategic product placement
Site Map
Once I had an idea of important design features I developed a site map to inform the site layout and understand what features would need to be focused on
Design
Web was designed to create a skeuomorphic visual representation of the devices position in the world. The devices equalizer setting creates the illusion of you literally pulling the sound towards the corners of your room to direct it.