Sound Design and the Future of Experience
summary
Argues that improving sound requires hardware and composition not just UX buzzwords, recommending sawtooth wave over cheap square waves and higher bandwidth speaker to open more frequencies so products can embed information like an alphabet not two letters. Cites sonification of particle physics to compress data, Dyson spending four years removing noise from a hairdryer, and Blendtec’s containerization turning a noisy motor into a $1000 blender quieter than conversation.
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chapters (5)
- 0:00Start
- 0:08Alarm Clock Sounds
- 0:42Particle Physics
- 1:16III. Remove sound from products
- 1:59Add Vibration Absorption
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