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Seesaw ירפאָונז by Yuhang Chen

Seesaw ירפאָונז by Yuhang Chen is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2023 A' Design Award אין אײַזן in אוידיאָ און קלאַנג אויסריכטונג דיזײַן Competition Category.


אײַזןאוידיאָ פּראָדוקטן· 2023

Seesaw ירפאָונז

by Yuhang Chen

A' Design Award אין אײַזן Winner in אוידיאָ פּראָדוקטן Category

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The Design

About Seesaw ירפאָונז

וויע ירפאָונז ינאָוווייץ די וועג פון נעמען אויס און סטאָרינג ירפאָונז, און זיין פּלאַן איז ינספּייערד דורך די וויזשוואַלי אין די קינדער פּאַרק. די וויזש איז איינער פון די מערסט פאָלקס פאַרווייַלונג פאַסילאַטיז אין קינדשאַפט. דיזיינערז אָפּשיקן צו די סטרוקטור פון די וויש און נוצן די ינטעראַקטיוו נאַטור פון דרינגלעך און ראָוטייטינג צו יוואָוק מענטשן ס ינטואַטיוו און טשיקאַווע מעמעריז פון פּלייינג מיט די ווי אַ קינד, און אין דער זעלביקער צייט פאַרענדיקן די כעדפאָונז און טשאַרדזשינג פאַנגקשאַנז.

The Recognition

About the A' Design Award אין אײַזן

Seesaw ירפאָונז איז אַ געווינער פֿון דעם A' Design Award אין אײַזן, אַן פּרעסטיזשע אָנערקענונג וואָס ווערט געגעבן צו גוטע דיזײַנס וואָס טרעפֿן די פּראָפֿעסיאָנעלע און ינדוסטריעלע פֿאָדערונגען וואָס מען דערוואַרט פֿון גוט-דיזײַנטע באַשאַפֿונגען. אײַזן-געווינער ווײַזן גרויסע בקיאות, הויכע ספּעציאַליזאַציע, מומחה-פֿאַרשטאַנד און קרעאַטיווע פֿעיִקייט פֿון זייערע שאַפֿער. פֿון Seesaw ירפאָונז ווערט דערוואַרט אַז עס איז אַ הויך געשעצטע, באַוווּנדערטע און ליבע באַשאַפֿונג וואָס איז פּראַקטיש און אינאָוואַטיוו. דער דאָזיקער געווינענדיקער דיזײַן פֿון A' Design Award אין אײַזן פֿאַראײניקט די בעסטע פּראַקטיקן פֿון דער ענף און האָט בקיאותדיקע טעכנישע אייגנשאַפֿטן פֿאַרבונדן מיט וויסן און טאַלאַנט. Seesaw ירפאָונז ווערט געערט פֿאַר זײַן גרינטלעכקייט און איז דיזײַנט צו פּראָווידן פֿאַרבעסערונגען פֿון לעבנס-קוואַליטעט וואָס העלפֿן מאַכן די וועלט צו אַ בעסערן אָרט.

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

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