Birdy Fungsi Utama: Pembesar Suara by Leijing Zhou and Xin An

Birdy Fungsi Utama: Pembesar Suara by Leijing Zhou and Xin An is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2023 A' Design Award Besi in Reka Bentuk Peralatan Audio dan Bunyi Competition Category.

BesiProduk Audio· 2023

Birdy Fungsi Utama: Pembesar Suara

by Leijing Zhou and Xin An

Client: Zhejiang University

A' Design Award Besi Winner in Produk Audio Category

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The Design

About Birdy Fungsi Utama: Pembesar Suara

Teks Buku: Birdy ialah pembesar suara dengan kayu kawalan berbentuk burung yang membolehkan main balik muzik diuruskan dengan tangan. Bahagian bawah adalah pembesar suara berbentuk kon dengan dua pemacu 5W dan penguat kelas D dwisaluran. Sensor kayu bidik di bahagian atas kon mengesan pergerakan figura burung pada kedua-dua paksi. Mengayunkan figura burung ke hadapan atau ke belakang melaraskan kelantangan, manakala mengayunkannya ke kiri atau ke kanan memilih lagu sebelumnya atau seterusnya. Birdy juga berfungsi sebagai pembantu rumah pintar yang bertindak balas terhadap bunyi burung. Reka bentuk ini bertujuan untuk mewujudkan hubungan yang semula jadi dan emosional antara manusia dan teknologi.

The Recognition

About the A' Design Award Besi

Birdy Fungsi Utama: Pembesar Suara ialah pemenang A' Design Award Besi, pengiktirafan yang berprestij yang dianugerahkan kepada reka bentuk yang baik yang memenuhi keperluan profesional dan industri yang dijangka daripada ciptaan yang direka dengan baik. Pemenang Besi menunjukkan kemahiran yang besar, kepakaran yang tinggi, kefahaman pakar dan keupayaan kreatif penciptanya. Birdy Fungsi Utama: Pembesar Suara diharapkan menjadi ciptaan yang sangat dihargai, dikagumi dan disayangi yang praktikal dan inovatif. Reka bentuk pemenang A' Design Award Besi ini menyepadukan amalan terbaik industri dan mempunyai ciri teknikal yang kompeten yang dikaitkan dengan kepakaran dan bakat. Birdy Fungsi Utama: Pembesar Suara dihormati kerana ketelitiannya dan direka untuk memberikan peningkatan kualiti hidup yang membantu menjadikan dunia tempat yang lebih baik.

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