Birdy Fonksyon Prensipal: Wo-palè by Leijing Zhou and Xin An

Birdy Fonksyon Prensipal: Wo-palè by Leijing Zhou and Xin An is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2023 A' Design Award Fè in Pwodui Odyo Competition Category.

FèPwodui Odyo· 2023

Birdy Fonksyon Prensipal: Wo-palè

by Leijing Zhou and Xin An

Client: Zhejiang University

A' Design Award Fè Winner in Pwodui Odyo Category

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The Design

About Birdy Fonksyon Prensipal: Wo-palè

Tèks Liv: Birdy se yon wo-palè ki gen yon baton kontwòl an fòm zwazo ki pèmèt ou jere miyzik la ak men ou. Pati anba a se yon wo-palè an fòm kòn ki gen de (2) chofè 5W ak yon anplifikatè klas D de kanal. Yon kapteur manch a balè ki nan tèt kòn nan detekte mouvman figi zwazo a sou de aks. Lè ou balanse figi zwazo a devan oswa dèyè, sa ajiste volim nan, epi lè ou balanse l agoch oswa adwat, sa chwazi chante ki anvan oswa chante ki apre a. Birdy fonksyone tou kòm yon asistan kay entelijan ki reponn a kri zwazo. Konsepsyon an fèt pou kreye yon koneksyon natirèl ak emosyonèl ant moun ak teknoloji.

The Recognition

About the A' Design Award Fè

Birdy Fonksyon Prensipal: Wo-palè se yon ganyan A' Design Award Fè, yon rekonesans ki gen prestij yo bay bon design ki satisfè egzijans pwofesyonèl ak endistriyèl yo atann de kreyasyon ki byen fèt. Ganyan Fè yo montre gwo konpetans, espesyalizasyon wo, konpreyansyon ekspè ak kapasite kreyatif kreyatè yo. Yo atann Birdy Fonksyon Prensipal: Wo-palè pou se yon kreyasyon anpil moun estime, admire e renmen ki pratik e inovatè. Design sa a ki ganyen A' Design Award Fè entegre pi bon pratik sektè a e li gen karakteristik teknik konpetan ki lye ak konnesans pratik ak talan. Yo respekte Birdy Fonksyon Prensipal: Wo-palè pou jèntan li e li fèt pou bay amelyorasyon kalite lavi ki ede fè mond lan vin yon pi bon kote.

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