CONTROL
OVERVIEW
IHA Student Design Competition Project
Control is a swimming goggles designed for kids, focusing on improving usability and utility to provide better and easier control.
SOFTWARE
Solidworks, Keyshot
Photoshop, Sketchbook
DATE
Sept, 2013 - Dec, 2013
Where to focus?
Kids aged 6-12.
Daily activities.
Which activity?
Swimming gears
The current swimming gears for the children are not well-designed, especially the goggles. Safety issues and inconvenience may occur during the child using swimming goggles, which needs to be concerned.
IN-DEPTH RESEARCH
FOCUSING ON USER EXPERIENCE
Wearing goggles
Struggling for 4 seconds
Kids - avg. 8 seconds
Adult - avg. 3 seconds
Adjusting & releasing goggles
Struggling for 1.5 seconds
Leaving red marks
Kids - avg. 3 seconds
Adult - avg. 1.5 seconds
PAIN POINT
Hard to put on goggles
Hard to adjust goggles
Leaving red marks
after wearing
What features are current products missing?
MAJOR GOGGLES TYPES
COMMONLY MISSING FEATURES
User-friendly length adjusting mechanism
Straps with less requirement of strength
Comfortable and durable nose pieces
DEVELOPMENT
DESIGN ELEMENT = PAIN POINT SOLUTION + MISSING FEATURES
SIDE CLIPS
NOSE PIECE
UNIBODY LENS
CONCEPTS
PROTOTYPE TESTING
WEARING
ADJUSTING
RELEASING
Current product
8 Seconds
Can not adjust by self
3 Seconds
Prototype
3 Seconds
5 Seconds
1.5 Seconds
MODELING
FEATURES
Unibody lenses ensure the durability and sealing of goggles. The gasket rests within the eye orbital reduce red marks on face.
Side clips only need three fingers with small strength to operate it.
A sponge bar behind the nose piece can maximumly avoid the bruise of nose skin. And nose piece is a pulling handle when loosening the goggles.
UNIBODY LENSES
ADJUSTABLE SIDE CLIPS
NOSE PIECE
7.8 in
5.35 in
1.35 in
DIMENSION
DEMONSTRATION
WEARING & TIGHTENING
LOOSENING & RELEASING
BRANDING
Name
Logo
Color palette
CONTROL
PMS 7709 C
CMYK: 60 8 0 25
RGB: 76 177 192
HEX: #4CB1C0
PMS 444 C
CMYK: 0 0 0 55
RGB: 114 114 114
HEX: #727272
Black
CMYK: 0 0 0 100
RGB: 0 0 0
HEX: #000000
RENDERING
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