During my time at Harman International, I was honored to work with some of the company’s most brilliant engineers and product owners. And one of these projects was a design of a gaming speaker for JBL. This new piece of technology allowed the user to hear the 3D sound just around their head.
I was excited to work on this project. However, once I had the acoustic package on my desk, I knew it would be a challenging task. The acoustic defined pretty much everything in this speaker, and at first, I felt that there is not much room for design. But I was wrong.
Because of so many limitations, I had limited options to improve the shape, but it also allowed me to move quickly with the design.
The shape of the acoustic shell reminded me of some spaceship. Once I had this association, I did not care anymore about making it a classy-looking design object. It was about making it gaming looking thing with the most sophisticated technology inside. The gaming speaker was born.
