Seesaw Earphones by Yuhang Chen is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2023 A' Design Award nga Puthaw in Disenyo sa Kagamitan sa Audio ug Tunog Competition Category.

PuthawProdukto sa Audio· 2023

Seesaw Earphones

by Yuhang Chen

A' Design Award nga Puthaw Winner in Produkto sa Audio Category

13,906

Verified Award Winner

Verify Award Status for #146026

View at A' Design Award Press Release Award Badge

Colors

The Design

About Seesaw Earphones

Ang Seesaw Earphones nagbag-o sa paagi sa pagkuha ug pagtipig sa mga earphone, ug ang disenyo niini giinspirar sa seesaw sa parke sa mga bata. Ang seesaw mao ang usa sa labing popular nga mga pasilidad sa kalingawan sa pagkabata. Gihisgotan sa mga tigdesinyo ang istruktura sa seesaw ug gigamit ang interactive nga pamatasan sa pagpadayon ug pag-rotate aron mapukaw ang intuitive ug makapaikag nga mga panumduman sa mga tawo sa pagdula sa seesaw sa bata pa, ug sa samang higayon makompleto ang pagkuha sa earphone ug pag-charge sa mga gimbuhaton.

The Recognition

About the A' Design Award nga Puthaw

Seesaw Earphones usa ka mananaog sa A' Design Award nga Puthaw, usa ka dungganon nga pag-ila nga gihatag sa maayong mga disenyo nga nakatagbo sa propesyonal ug industriyal nga mga gikinahanglan nga gipaabot gikan sa maayo ang pagkadisenyo nga mga paglalang. Ang mga mananaog sa Puthaw nagpakita og dakong kahanas, taas nga espesyalisasyon, eksperto nga pagsabot, ug mamugnaon nga abilidad sa ilang mga tiglalang. Gilauman nga ang Seesaw Earphones mahimong gipabilhan, gihangaan, ug gihigugma nga paglalang nga praktikal ug bag-o. Kini nga disenyo nga nakadaog og A' Design Award nga Puthaw naghiusa sa labing maayong mga praktis sa industriya ug adunay hanas nga teknikal nga mga kinaiya nga nalambigit sa kahibalo ug talento. Seesaw Earphones gitahod tungod sa pagkamaabtik niini ug gidisenyo aron maghatag og mga pagpaayo sa kalidad sa kinabuhi nga makatabang sa paghimo sa kalibutan nga mas maayong dapit.

Behind the Design

Press Kit

Credits, team members and technical details provided by the designer.

Unique Properties: "Seesaw" innovates the way of taking out and storing earphones, and its design is inspired by the seesaw in the children's park. The seesaw is one of the most popular amusement facilities in childhood. We refer to the structure of the seesaw and use the interactive behavior of pressing and rotating to evoke people's intuitive and interesting memories of playing the seesaw as a child, and at the same time complete the earphone taking and charging functions.
Dimensions & Packaging: Length70mm x width28mm x height44mm
Tags: earphones, earbuds, earphone, earhead, TWS, Yuhang Chen, Shuai Gong, Audio, Sound
Production Technology: "Seesaw" uses eco-friendly cathodic electrophoresis as the base layer, and then applies baking lacquer to its surface. Eco-friendly cathodic electrophoresis adheres the color to the entire product, ensuring that the product's metallic base color does not leak out from areas where the baking lacquer cannot adhere. The type of baking lacquer we use is PU lacquer, which removes the ink that covers the defective products during the spraying process and can reduce the scrap rate.
Design Challenge: To ensure the compact appearance of the charging compartment design, we need to control the wall thickness of the charging compartment to a thin state, but the location of the charging compartment rotation axis is close to the edge of the product, it needs to have sufficient wall thickness to support the fixed. we conducted material tests on CNC prototypes of different thicknesses of different alloy by using AB test, and finally used a partially thickened zinc alloy shell to solve this problem.
Research: Background: We wanted to design a user-friendly and emotionally resonant earphones.
Methods: We collected ear and finger dynamic data of more than 500 users aged 18 to 35, and obtained the area with the highest overlap rate by superimposing primitives. The most suitable top curve of the charging case and the size of the fulcrum of the headset are obtained. Our product form strictly follows these data.
Inspiration: when we saw children playing on the seesaw in the park, we wondered if we could transpose this interesting interaction and the pleasure it generates into the product.Therefore, we designed the body of "Seesaw" as a semicircle., with the left and right earphones placed opposite each other in the charging compartment and rotated the charging compartment by using the center axis on both sides as the pivot point, thus switching the form of picking up and storing the earphones.
Project Duration: The project started in Shenzhen in March 2022, was completed in Shenzhen in October 2022, and was exhibited at Global Sources Consumer Electronics Exhibition in Hong Kong in October 2022.
Operation Flow: "Seesaw" can be pressed and rotate the charging compartment to complete different functional state switch. 0 degrees when the product is closed; left and right rotation 60 degrees can open the charging compartment to remove the earphones. when the charging compartment is rotated 120 degrees to the left will the charging port be revealed. We cleverly use braille as a non-slip texture on the headset. At the same time, the magnets on the left and right earphones repel each. so they will not be misplaced when storing the earphones.
Team Members: Yuhang Chen
Shuai Gong
Hongchao Zhou