Wearable Watch Concept Design Options

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hello fellow designers,

my name is Nicolas Meiresonne, 20years old and I am a Productdesign student from Belgium, Antwerp.

First I must say that I am impressed by the different finished projects which I daily see here and that I am mildly intimidated by them

Anyway,

6 Weeks ago we got a new project to work on. Wearable watches, the objective was to develop a "wearable watch" with focus on the users experience part. A watch that didn't need to tell you the exact time, only a perception.
We got a target group to work with and I got the following: Women who are around there 30's, excercise twice a week, are happily maried, have children... blablabla.

Here is what I came up with.

I thought of a bracelet with a color that show what time it is. Bleu/green = morning, yellow/orange = noon , red/purple = evening and night. The colors rotate around the bracelet. The color on top indicates the current "time". When one colour reaches the top for a second time, 24H have past, but I guess that's obvious. If not, well now you know

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 TORUSindication.jpg ( 65.64K ) Number of downloads: 20



My conceptposter took too long to upload as an attachement so i hosted it through imageshack (I hope that's okay?)
Its written in dutch, but i hop it's pretty clear.
conceptposter

An important feature is that you can add several timers on my watch, by scrolling through the colors (touchscreen) en double tapping the color where you want the timer to end, a white bar wil appear (2nd big frame on my concept poster). Eventually when the white bar reaches the indicator the timer will go off and the upper half of the bracelet will get a bit warmer to alert the user.


I hope you guys like it! I will eagerly be waiting for your comments.

grtz from Belgium