Headphones 2.0 Concept Animatics and Storyboards

Principal Designer · Bose · 2019
What I did — Design Thinking Sprint Lead, Concept Animatic Scripts, Executive Readout Presentation
Outcome — Concept Animatics, User Resonance Testing, Product Leadership buy-in for future development

Production Team

Illustrations
Fardad Faridi (https://www.linkedin.com/in/fardadfaridi)

Video Editing
Jayme McCreary (https://www.linkedin.com/in/jayme-mccreary)

Narration
Alexandria Hunter-Whalen (https://www.linkedin.com/in/alexandriahunterwhalen)

As part of the Bose Labs organization, I lead a team to create video assets that could communicate concepts we had been exploring for internal review, and external user resonance testing. For this effort we landed on a low fidelity animated storyboard with voice narration. This style aimed to make these forward-looking feel more approachable to folks encountering them for the first time.

Concepts Tested

  • Device Hand-off

  • Binaural Scenes

  • Binaural Favorites

  • Barge-in

  • Modes/Superpowers

Sketches demonstrate an active lifestyle with people running and stretching, a person listening to music with headphones, a person adjusting a hearing aid, and a reminder to turn off a device with a hand gesture.
Sketch of a collage of people, including children and adults, in various situations such as waiting, talking, and sleeping, with the text 'BINUAL SCENES' in the middle.
Sketches of a person with headphones illustrating how binaural audio works, including flow charts of sound sources like news, weather, and music, with annotations about stereo and 3D sound effect creation.
A black and white sketch of people working in an office, with a woman at a desk, a man with headphones, and a person with a tablet. There is a timer and notes on the wall, as well as the text "BARGE-IN" over the illustration.
A collage of sketches and photographs illustrating different modes or superpowers, including a woman at a desk, close-ups of a woman’s face, and a person running with annotations about focus, touching a device, and a running pose.
Sketches of a woman at work, including her talking on the phone, adjusting her shoe, and running, with notes about focus and noise elimination.