Sound in Product DesignDavid Bingham

Who am I?

David Bingham @bizarobot

bingham@ge.com

Appliances Industrial Internet

Press

Hi, Im Dave. ! Sounds & Products

User Interactions

Personality

Buzzer & Speaker Components

Sound Engineering

Design Process

Sounds & Products

Lock

Unlock

Send Mail

Brand

G3, E4, C4

User Interactions

Listeners

Environment

User Control

Proximity

Personality

+ = ?Interaction Specific

+ = ?Brand Specific

Provide a structure that allows abstraction and translation of brand meaning to connect with different audiences.

Image Boards!

Brand Cues Terms or images of design attributes that translate values to artifacts.

Values Terms describing a brands emotional or motivational traits.

Artifacts Products, interfaces, services, or other brands, that personify the cues and values of the brand.

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Buzzer Components

Frequency Response

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Speaker Components

Frequency Response

Amplifier

Digital Analog Converter

Storage

Sound Engineering

Quality

Quality

Quality

Quality

Quality

Quality

Quality

Quality

Recording

Editing

Fade Normalize Amplify Trim Export

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Design Process

Engineering Quality, tuning levels, components, time and cost to execution.

Product Design Brand, usability, prototyping, & aesthetics.

Product Management Time to market, differentiation, collaboration, decision making.

Brand +

Functions

Sketch

Press & Hold (toggle):PressHoldOff.wavPressHoldOn.wav

+ Toggles indicator

Press (toggle):Touch.wav

+ Toggles indicator, only one selection at a time

Press (toggle):Off.wavOn.wav

+ Toggles indicator

Associate

Prototype

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Prototype

speakerscontrolinput

external input

Prototype

Prototype

Prototype

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thanks!

GE Software Center San Ramon, CA

! Full-Time & Contract UX - Visual Design - Interaction Design - Design-Technologists - Design Research UX Leadership Program Summer Interns

bingham@ge.com