Humming Love
Project type
Industrial Design
Brief
Create an interactive wearable that enhances an expression.
Humming Love is a cutting edge interactive wearable designed to elevate the art of non-verbal communication and charm of expressing your visual interest in someone special. With a simple gesture of straightening your bow tie, Humming Love's feathers come to life, creating a captivating visual display that subtly conveys your genuine interest in connecting with an individual.
Phase I
Ideation
Given how broad the prompt was, I got to ideating on what I considered to be enhancing expressiveness. Some ideas were wild while others were more conservative, but for such a prompt the more wilder they were the more fun the interactive product became.
Phase II
Concept
Concepting after picking a direction led me to hone in on the necessary parts I would need to create such a piece. It also narrowed my focus on what the context for this product would be.
Phase III
Prototyping
Using the lasercutter and rough arduino code mixed with a pressure sensor, I was able to create V1 of Sedusa which was a lot of fun to test and play around with different animations.
Phase IV
User Testing
User testing led me to find several flaws and pain points while testing sedusa. This influence what I needed to revise the product to becoming the final one seen in the end.
Phase V.I
Revisions
First revision was having stiffer feathers so that they would get stuck with each other. As well as making them more abstract and without small cuts but more uniform in shape. As well as making one side more colorful.
Phase VI
Final deliverables
Everything came together in the end with a theatrical presentation that illustrated beautifully how this product worked and in what context one would use it.
Phase V.II
Revisions
Second revision was to have a stronger structure and more condense wire work so that wires couldn't be pulled by accident and break the system. Everything became way more concise and smaller since I hard soldered everything and made wires shorter. I also updated the structure from cardboard to foam core allowing more durability in use.
