Birdy Función Principal: Altofalante by Leijing Zhou and Xin An

Birdy Función Principal: Altofalante by Leijing Zhou and Xin An is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2023 A' Design Award de Ferro in Deseño de Equipos de Audio e Son Competition Category.

FerroProdutos de Audio· 2023

Birdy Función Principal: Altofalante

by Leijing Zhou and Xin An

Client: Zhejiang University

A' Design Award de Ferro Winner in Produtos de Audio Category

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The Design

About Birdy Función Principal: Altofalante

Texto do Libro: Birdy é un altofalante cun mando de control en forma de paxaro que permite xestionar a reprodución musical coa man. A parte inferior é un altofalante en forma de cono con dous altofalantes de 5W e un amplificador de clase D de dobre canal. Un sensor tipo joystick na parte superior do cono detecta o movemento da figura do paxaro en ambos os eixes. Ao mover a figura do paxaro cara adiante ou cara atrás axústase o volume, mentres que ao movela cara á esquerda ou cara á dereita selecciónase a canción anterior ou seguinte. Birdy tamén funciona como un asistente de fogar intelixente que responde a chamadas de paxaros. O deseño pretende crear unha conexión natural e emocional entre as persoas e a tecnoloxía.

The Recognition

About the A' Design Award de Ferro

Birdy Función Principal: Altofalante gañou o A' Design Award de Ferro, un recoñecemento prestixioso outorgado a bos deseños que cumpren os requisitos profesionais e industriais esperados de creacións ben deseñadas. Os gañadores Ferro demostran a gran habilidade, a alta especialización, a comprensión experta e a capacidade creativa dos seus creadores. Espérase que Birdy Función Principal: Altofalante sexa unha creación moi apreciada, admirada e querida que é práctica e innovadora. Este deseño gañador do A' Design Award de Ferro integra as mellores prácticas do sector e ten características técnicas competentes ligadas ao saber facer e ao talento. Birdy Función Principal: Altofalante é respectado pola súa minuciosidade e está deseñado para proporcionar melloras na calidade de vida que axudan a facer do mundo un lugar mellor.

Behind the Design

Press Kit

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

Unique Properties: Birdy provides a more engaging way to control music playback. With its bird-shaped game stick, users can interact with their music in a unique and interesting way, making the experience feel more natural and intuitive. Designed to emulate the experience of touching and interacting with a live creature, Birdy provides a refreshing departure from traditional, lifeless speakers.
Dimensions & Packaging: The full height of the product is 316mm. The bottom cone speaker is 250mm high and the maximum diameter is 142mm.
Tags: Speaker, Emotional design, Bird, Bionics, Natural
Production Technology: The speaker features two 5W drivers with a dual-channel class D amplifier. On the top of the cone is a joystick sensor that detects the movement of the bird above it in both XY axes, thus controlling the music playback.
Design Challenge: The biggest challenge of the design is how to give an emotional connection to a technological artifact. We were inspired by the interaction between humans and birds, where birds have a natural connection to music. This led us to design Birdy, a speaker that offers a more natural and intuitive way to interact with technology, bridging the gap between the digital and physical worlds.
Research: People communicate emotionally with their pets and we have studied various interactions between people and their pets and found that we were inspired by the interaction between humans and bird pets, where on the one hand birds have a natural connection to music and on the other hand their physical interaction between human and birds can be extracted as a way to control the music.
Inspiration: The design of Birdy is inspired by the way bird breeders often stroke and interact with their pets. The bird is located at the top and the bottom is a conical speaker. It is designed to foster emotional connections between users and the device, creating a more natural and seamless user experience.
Project Duration: The project started in March 2021 in Qingdao and finished in September 2022 in Ningbo.
Operation Flow: Users can control their music playback by swinging the bird-shaped game stick at the top, similar to a joystick. Swinging the bird backward or forward adjusts the volume, while swinging it left or right skips to the previous or next song. Additionally, Birdy is also a smart home assistant that responds to different bird calls.
Team Members: Leijing Zhou
Xin An
Image Credits: Xin An