A quality headphone designed by the design language of Jaguar

from 2020 Portfolio_ Guanyun Chen

The story about baby boomer and an elegant design for them

Design Elements 3.

Apply the design elements of Jaguar to design a digital product. The project focus on understanding the style of a specific brand and apply it to headphone design.

Design Language

Jaguar has lot beautiful and high quality attributes on the material, exterior and interior, but the company do not provide this with an unattainable prise as what it looks like. So the position of the headphone would be same as Jarguar.

Dramatic Graceful

Exaggerated Stance & Graceful line

Powerful Passionate

Bold Surface Break, Clean& Glossy

Luxurious

Luxurious Style, Metal, Leather & Technical

Market Analysis

Price

Target Market

Sound Quality

Since most higher class headphone are for professional audio appreciating, therefore, they tend to have bigger dimension and the materials, the components are considered to performed the best sound.

Lighter Smaller

Also, they do not have that much functions and buttons as others headphone which is in the lower class then them.

Heavier Bigger

Bluetooth Beats Studio $350

stereo 3.5mm

$350 Bluetooth stereo 3.5mm BOSE QuietComfort 35 II

DENON AH-D5200 $699

stereo 3.5mm

Ideation

Sketch Trying to simulate different portion of JAGUAR as the exterior of headphone. I pick the graceful hood, which I think is the most distinguished part of JAGUAR.

VR Sketch Then go to VR sketch to inspect relative dimensions and the detail design.

Prototype Finally, built the prototype to confirm the real dimensions and features.

Final Design

The headphone is in Jaguar classic green and black. The leather and string on the headband are like the seat of Jaguar. Contrastive color between them are symbolize the passion of Jaguar. Special leather of earpad allow air circulation to avoid the uncomfortable from swelter.

Features

Adjustable Headband

Adjustable Earpad

Volume Slide

Slot

The headphone has flexible steel, adjustable headband and earpad can fit to anyone. Intutive control the volume by using the slide. Long press the slide to connect and deconnect bluetooth. Classical audio jack and universal micro USB slot are avalible as well.