Seesaw 耳機 by Yuhang Chen is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2023 A' Design Award 鐵獎 in 音響產品設計 Competition Category.

鐵音響產品· 2023

Seesaw 耳機

by Yuhang Chen

A' Design Award 鐵獎 Winner in 音響產品 Category

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The Design

About Seesaw 耳機

Seesaw Earphones創新了耳機的取出和收納方式，其設計靈感來自於兒童公園裡的蹺蹺板。蹺蹺板是童年最受歡迎的遊樂設施之一。設計者參考蹺蹺板的結構，利用按壓和旋轉的互動行為，喚起人們小時候玩蹺蹺板的直覺有趣的記憶，同時完成耳機的拿取和充電功能。

The Recognition

About the A' Design Award 鐵獎

Seesaw 耳機是 A' Design Award 鐵獎得主，這是授予滿足人們對設計精良的創作所期待的專業與工業要求的優良設計的聲望認可。鐵獎得主展現出其創作者的高超技藝、高度專業化、專家級的理解力和創造能力。預計Seesaw 耳機將成為一件備受推崇、令人欽佩且被珍愛的創作，既實用又創新。這件贏得 A' Design Award 鐵獎的設計整合了行業最佳實踐，並擁有與專業知識和才華相結合的稱職技術特性。Seesaw 耳機因其嚴謹而受到尊重，旨在提供有助於讓世界變得更美好的生活品質改善。

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