My Wireless Earphone, I Love it and I Hate it!
Today, I want talk about my wireless earphone, which I love it very much, and I hate it in depth. Firstly, I want to introduce my wireless, it is a new arrival Beats product, and there are various other combinations of two colors. This earphone is an ear sport headphone, with many humanized design and useful functions. For example, this earphone can connect with different digital devices via Bluetooth, such as pad; phone, laptop, Mp3 and any devices, which you want, work with this earphone. Sweat and water-resistant. The earphones have adjustable ear hooks, and there are four different size earplugs for various people ears’ size. This earphone became popular in some social medias because of perfect design and good performance, and received high attention among young people .You can see people wear it when they were walking in the street. In some perspectives, it is a very successful product. However, not all things are as perfect as imagined. I want to complain it even I still like it.
First of all, my ears will hurt when I wear it for a long time; this is the biggest problem, the product affects users comfort. Even the designer product four different size earplugs to satisfy people’s demand, and I have tried four size earplugs. The truth is I still get hurt when I use that for a long time. I doubt that is my own ears ‘ problem, but I asked my friend who bought the same earphone as mine, my friend has the same situation. So I think designer need redesign and find a new solution to instead of the old one to make earplugs. The other problem is the location of microphone is not appropriate.
If people wear the earphone backgrounds (picture 1), people cannot hear your speaking clearly via this earphone. If people wear this earphone in this way (picture 2), someone looks very weird. The solution is changing the position about this microphone, it will be better, and more accord with human body engineering. According to Kolko (2015), creating a model to examine the problems, first used to make physical objects, is increasingly being applied to complex,” that if this earphone designer wear this product model, they will find this problem. In some aspects, this product is not successful. “A design culture is nurturing. It doesn’t encourage failure” (Kolko, 2015).
Reference list:
Kolko, J. 2015. Design Thinking comes of Age. Harvard Business Review, viewed 1st October, 2015 < https://online.uts.edu.au/bbcswebdav/pid-1223264-dt-content-rid-6553744_1/courses/incuxd001/Design%20Thinking%20Comes%20of%20Age.pdf>
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