KATHY WANG

Role:
Industrial Designer
Individual Project:
Kathy Wang
Responsibility
- User Research
- Ideation
- Prototyping
- Material Design
- 3D Modeling & Rendering
- Engineering Drawing
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DENON
Speaker Design for Kitchen Environment


User Research
- Denond find has best quality of voice but average apperance
- Our target customer spend 5-6 hours in the kitchen everyday.
- Kitchen environment is always in a mess.
- Water splashes on the counter.
- Users do not want to touch electronic devices with dirty hands.
Competitive Research

Ideation

Concept 1
Concept 2
Concept 3



Mock-up Testing
I bring these three mockups to IKEA to test its scale and to see how would it be used in the everyday kitchen environment. I found out that users can hang mock up 1 over anywhere, and it really fit into the kitchen environment. And it is very portable. So I decided to keep develop concept 1.




Concept 1
Concept 2
Concept 3
3D Modeling & Redering



User Interaction


Prototyping

Hero Image

Design Objective
Design a portable speaker for Denon's HEOS collection to leverage industrial design to enhance its brand in the U.S. and global markets. The goal of this project is to create a concept that combines "Best in class" industrial design, user experiences and CMF for the kitchen environment.