Cyber Yoke Steering Wheel by Don Ian is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2025 Bronze A' Design Award in Vehicle Parts, Auto Accessories and Care Products Design Competition Category.
BronzeVehicle Accessory· 2025
Cyber Yoke Steering Wheel
by Don Ian
Client: Agiling
Bronze A' Design Award Winner in Vehicle Accessory Category
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About Cyber Yoke Steering Wheel
This product design is an improvement on the traditional round steering wheel which can improve the driver's forward vision. The wheel rim shape of Oval Rectangle highlights a sense of technology and futurism, and combines the advantages of circular steering wheel and half-spoke steering wheel. The design of different materials and colors on the double rings of inner and outer reflects a visual effect of layering. The application of special material-color gradient fabrics provides more personalized choices. The Designer hopes to create a product that balances aesthetics and practicality.
The Recognition
About the Bronze A' Design Award
Cyber Yoke Steering Wheel is a Bronze A' Design Award winner, a highly prestigious recognition granted to outstanding designs distinguished by creativity, ingenuity, and astuteness. Bronze winners are amply skillful and strikingly creative artifacts that authenticate the vast experience, imagination, and resourcefulness of their designers. Cyber Yoke Steering Wheel is expected to be a highly regarded, admired, and cherished object that is notably professional and innovative. This Bronze A' Design Award-winning design incorporates best practices in art, science, design, and technology, and is excellent for its attention to detail. Cyber Yoke Steering Wheel splendidly satisfies needs, touches desires, charms feelings, and appeals to curiosity.
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Design Interview
What is the main principle, idea and inspiration behind your design?
To create a product that balances aesthetics and practicality. The inspiration for using color gradient fabrics comes from the paintings of Van Gogh.
What has been your main focus in designing this work? Especially what did you want to achieve?
The traditional circular steering wheel allows both hands to move freely, it‘s easy to get the hands mixed up after turning and returning, while a half-spoke steering wheel can cause the other hand to grab the air when turning and turning back, so we aimed to build a steering wheel that avoids both problems.
What are your future plans for this award winning design?
Develop more car models from this.
Grand Interview
Your innovative approach to the Cyber Yoke Steering Wheel's oval rectangle design represents a significant departure from traditional circular steering wheels - could you elaborate on how this shape specifically enhances driver forward vision while maintaining optimal control?
This product design is an improvement on the traditional round steering wheel which can improve the driver's forward vision. The wheel rim shape of Oval Rectangle highlights a sense of technology and futurism, and combines the advantages of circular steering wheel and half-spoke steering wheel.
The integration of color gradient fabrics inspired by Van Gogh's paintings in the Cyber Yoke Steering Wheel is particularly intriguing - how did you translate artistic inspiration into functional automotive design while ensuring durability and user comfort?
Fabric is also a widely used interior material in high-end vehicles. The fabric we employ features a unique gradient color design, offering you an ultra-luxurious experience to premium automotive models. It is equipped with automotive-grade interior material treatments (water splash-proof, oil-resistant, and stain-resistant), along with high-temperature resistance, wear resistance, breathability, sweat permeability, and environmental safety. Additionally, it enhances elasticity and surface texture. Our fabric is spun from color-processed yarn, eliminating concerns about color fading.
The five-layer manufacturing process of the Cyber Yoke Steering Wheel, including the built-in heating patch, seems quite complex - what challenges did you encounter during the three iterations of the foaming mold development, and how did these modifications lead to the final design?
The development of the manufacturing process is more difficult than the design. The entire product development took one year. The foaming mold of the steering wheel body was modified three times, and the color gradient fabric was modified three times. In addition, the surface material was hand-wrapped, and it was difficult to maintain the surface flatness. Quality control was the key.
Behind the Design
Press Kit
Credits, team members and technical details provided by the designer.
- Unique Properties
- Modified steering wheel designed for Tesla Model 3/Y, Create a steering wheel that combines the advantages of circular steering wheel and half-spoke steering wheel. The unique wheel rim shape of Oval Rectangle highlights a strong sense of technology and futurism, and the design of different materials and colors on the double rings of inner and outer reflects a special sense of layering. The application of particular material-color gradient fabrics provides more personalized choices.
- Dimensions & Packaging
- 358 (mm) x 147 (mm) x 268 (mm)
- Tags
- Steering Wheel, Cyber Yoke, CyberYoke, Tesla, Model 3, Model Y, Agiling, Don Ian
- Production Technology
- Five-layer Process: 1. One-piece die casting frame; 2. First layer of PU foam; 3. Built-in heating patch; 4. Second layer of PU foam; 5. Surface mat. covering.
- Design Challenge
- The development of the manufacturing process is more difficult than the design. The entire product development took one year. The foaming mold of the steering wheel body was modified three times, and the color gradient fabric was modified three times. In addition, the surface material was hand-wrapped, and it was difficult to maintain the surface flatness. Quality control was the key.
- Research
- Using NX to create design models and then using resin 3D printing to verify feasibility, the use of resin materials results in significant dimensional errors, leading to longer mold modification times during the product trial production phase. For the development of color gradient fabrics, due to the high requirement for fabric extensibility for surface covering, the initial color displayed by the fabric is darker. Adjusting the fabric texture scheme can effectively reduce the color depth.
- Inspiration
- The traditional circular steering wheel allows both hands to move freely, it‘s easy to get the hands mixed up after turning and returning, while a half-spoke steering wheel can cause the other hand to grab the air when turning and turning back, so we aimed to build a steering wheel that avoids both problems. On the other hand, the inspiration for using color gradient fabrics comes from the paintings of Van Gogh, and we hope to create a product that balances aesthetics and practicality.
- Project Duration
- The project started in Guangzhou in December 2023, obtained a patent in August 2024, and entered mass production in December 2024.
- Operation Flow
- About the installation of the modified steering wheel: 1. Remove the original steering wheel from the car; 2. Disassemble the original steering wheel parts (button module, shell, etc.); 3. Install the original steering wheel parts on the steering wheel body of this design; 4. Install the steering wheel as a whole on the car.
- Patents
- Patented. Patent No.ZL 2024 3 0389406.8, Patent Holder: Agiling (Guangzhou) Tech Co., Ltd. Year 2024.
Copyrights belong to Agiling (Guangzhou) Tech Co., Ltd. Year 2024. - Team Members
- Designer: Don Ian
- Image Credits
- Image #1: Photographer Don Ian, Guangzhou, 2024.
Image #2: Photographer Don Ian, Guangzhou, 2024.
Image #3: Photographer Don Ian, Guangzhou, 2024.
Image #4: Photographer Don Ian, Guangzhou, 2024.
Image #5: Photographer Don Ian, Guangzhou, 2024.
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