2023 | Professional

MUSE Design Awards Gold Winner

Havit OpenBuds Air Conduction Headphone

Entrant Company

Guangzhou Havit Technology Company Limited

Category

Product Design - Digital & Electronic Devices

Client's Name

Country / Region

China

Openbuds is an open-ear clip headphone that seamlessly combines comfortable wear with exceptional audio quality. Utilizing an innovative ear-clip design, it delivers music without the need for ear insertion, allowing your ears to breathe naturally. Moreover, its meticulously crafted sound conduction technology immerses you in music while maintaining awareness of your surroundings, enhancing safety during use.

In the appearance design of Openbuds, meticulous attention has been devoted to refining the color, material, and embellishments of the primary surface. The exterior showcases an interplay of glossy and matte finishes, along with the incorporation of transparent materials, resulting in a design that enhances depth and visual allure. Using the technique of acrylic dyeing, coupled with a gradient pearlescent color applied to the rear, the interactive panel exhibits a mesmerizing array of shifting colors and iridescence when illuminated from diverse angles and light sources, bringing users a visual experience with the coexistence of fashion, technology and art.

Its design continues the brand’s “Beautiful Life” series, embracing the aesthetic language of Eastern modernity. Employing clean lines and geometric shapes, along with traditional Chinese painting techniques such as blending and negative space, it creates a translucent iridescence and abstractly embodies the essence of Eastern modern minimalism.

Among the many curved designs on the market, these clip-on earphones stand out in a unique way. Different from the general clip-on wireless earphones, the design of this product adopts a simple geometric shape. With the half-hanging and half-clip wearing method and the ear cushion design, the clamping force is reduced while ensuring the stability of wearing, creating a more comfortable and ergonomic wearing experience for users.

The product has been innovated in shape, adding a straight arm design to form a natural human-machine touch surface, which is convenient for users to quickly locate the control panel for operation. A new arm angle of the ear clip is introduced to improve the wearing comfort, enhance the decoration of the ear clip, and make the operation and touch angle more humanized.

The main materials used in its parts are environmentally friendly ones: ABS and PC with good chemical resistance.

Credits

Li Wanping
Wu Yushan
Chen Chunxue
Ou Linfang
Wang Qi
Liao Wen
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