Balance
Product design, 2013
What if a commodity creates a meaningful moment every time you use it? Based on the concept of treating the product as a medium to create a connection between users and their personal emotions, Balance, two designed products, the Cobblestone Scale reminds the user of stumbling across the river, and the Horizon Lamp evokes the memory of feeling sunshine.
CHALLENGE
Design a product for a high-pressured lifestyle, which is as meaningful as it was beautiful that improves health and fresh the soul.
OUTCOME
Product design supported by user research, methodology analysis, design language developing, and tangible prototype.
01.
Research
02.
Ideation
Concept expression 1
By stepping on it, with the touching and sensing from the organic shape and designed radius, the users come back to the moment when they stumbling across the river in the childhood.
They opened their arms to keep the balance, as streams slowly flowed along with fresh air and endless happiness.
Concept expression 2
Connects the users with the memory of sunshine. When you turn on the lamp and have sunlight on your face, it is a tactile feeling of sunshine.
03.
Journey Mapping
Cobblestone scale
Horizon lamp
04.
Concept development
Design expression
On the normal weight scale, the body weight grows from 0 to your weight, on Cobblestone scale, it decreases from 90 to your scale, as the weight decreased, the pressure decreased.
The bottom of Cobblestone scale has a radius to recall the memory of stumbling across the river, the memory of balance.
