Uncord Audio - Formgivning av produkt för trådlös ljudöverföring
The thesis work was conducted with the company Free2Move AB. The company is located in Halmstad and is an acting provider of wireless communications for industrial customers, mainly focused on Bluetooth? technology.In today's society most people have their music on their computer, MP3 player or mobile phone. What if you could avoid the cable between your sound system and sound source and transfer music wirelessly instead? Together with the company's engineers, I have developed a new comprehensive product for wireless music transmission. My task was to design the outside of the product and then together with the firm's engineers and market agency, develop its external components from both an aesthetic and technical point of view. The electronics design was created by the company engineers.The hope of profiling on the market set the bar from the beginning. Free2Move AB did not want to emphasize the project too hard in the beginning, it was the work that has led to what it is today. However, a strong emphasis was places on production ability and cost. Approximately in the middle of the project we realized that it would be impossible to launch the product. Competing products currently sell for around 600 SEK couple. We would have to sell our product for about 1500 SEK each. The economic factor has not prevented the thesis from attaining its original intent, but only changed it to a concept solution instead of going directly into production. Still, great consideration has been given to production ability and production cost. The project included the design and product development. Therefore, I chose to work as much as possible according to SVID Design Process which is a process that is used as a model for design in product development.