Vega

Bixby enabled smart speaker

Client: Samsung
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Date: August 25, 2017
Services: Industrial Design, UX Design, Design Strategy

Voice Enabled General Agent

Initially the Vega project was intended as a voice-activated smart speaker, the point of interaction for controlling the Digital Home Appliance suite of products.

Project scope quickly expanded to include a premium audio experience, followed by a visual display for data, and finally touch capability. In order to humanize a the interactions we explored a home and legacy audio feel via multiple iterations of both screen and screen-less mockups to get to something that felt more a home decor item the was a mix of sculpture, Hi-Fi, and futuristic technology.