Listen and hear with Noor
01.Brief
Finding your way around the city or calling on the street is an obvious gesture... Except for visually impaired people. How can you listen to sound without being cut off from your environment? To answer this, GoSense, the specialist in mobility assistance solutions for blind people, entrusted us with the design and technical development of the NOOR extra-aural headphones.
Listen to your music with quality sound, without putting yourself in danger
In an urban context, these headphones offer a real gain in safety: they allow users to receive useful information while remaining attentive to traffic and passers-by.
02.Design produit
Easy to install, impossible to lose
To provide a good user experience, comfort and ergonomics take precedence in design choices. Because for users to really adopt it for urban uses, it is a matter of creating real added value in terms of quality of use.
Our main objectives include:
- Facilitate the product installation process.
- Clearly differentiate the left side from the right side.
- Ensure perfect fit in all situations.
Each ear being unique, our challenge is to design a product offering optimal comfort for each body shape. From the start of the project, we carry out multiple tests on a wide range of ears, taking into account the diversity of users. We then quickly identify the key comfort factors to inform our choices and retain the right concepts.
03.The perfect fitting loop developed by modeling
NOOR headphones follow the natural curvature of the ear by forming a loop. The shape is thus made fluid to adapt perfectly to different morphologies – it is adjusted by adjusting the tension of the cable. To arrive at this solution, we called on the “intelligence of the hand” and the use of modeling clay.
Ingénierie
The earpiece is so compact that integrating the speaker is like clockwork
The size of the product is very small – the mechanical design and arrangement of the elements require great attention to detail. To fit within this minimum volume, each element, each component must be justified.
Each ear being unique, our challenge is to design a product offering optimal comfort for each body shape. From the start of the project, we carry out multiple tests on a wide range of ears, taking into account the diversity of users. We then quickly identify the key comfort factors to inform our choices and retain the right concepts.
04.Packaging
Results
Positive impact
Noor helps visually impaired people with their daily mobility.
Simplicity
A clever loop for a perfect hold around the ear.
Satisfaction
An inclusive product that rivals those of major electronics brands.
