The e-Bee is a concept car for 2020 with car sharing options, ride sharing and smart mobility capabilities. The vehicle is based on a regular Nissan Leaf, stripped off to the chassis and rebuilt with Visteon parts.
The goal was to design the car for not only driving from point A to B, but to let the passengers organize their digital social live while in the car and share their car with others.
The complex information of the digital live and the information from the car was divided into three separate displays: one for the driving and car related stuff (left from steering wheel), one multitouch device – on the right hand side – for infotainment and the one in front of the driver (cluster) for routing information.
On the cluster the user can see a 3D-map of the surrounding area – rendered in real time – and augmented with all the social information needed to plan the trip and the live around it.
The system is based on a central server instance from VST (ui.cockpit) which handles all the communication between system components, the car and the driver and the passenger. The whole system can be remotely controlled from an Android tablet.
External Media:
- Visteon e-Bee Microsite.
- Chief Designer (Product design) Simon Harris of the Auto Envision Group about the e-Bee concept ate CES 2013 on YouTube.
- Bertrand Stelandre (Design & Innovation manager at Visteon) at Electronica 2012 about the concept vehicle on YouTube.
In close collaboration with the design team at MDG in Munich, Useface created a mostly familiar user experience for a fully automatic espresso machine, based on the interaction concept of the Gaggenau oven series 200. The context and the scenario of using an oven differs from using a coffee machine, but the experience and the intuitive usage of the appliances should be the same to generate an overall brand experience.
Besides the concept the screen layout had to be redesigned and a whole bunch of new icons had to be created.
Images by courtesy of Gaggenau Hausgeräte GmbH.
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Together with the design team at Gaggenau Markendesign, useface created a usabilty and interface concept for the microwave oven series BM27x. The concept is based on the oven and espresso machine visual and interaction patterns, but with a lot more complex features – like programming and recipes like actions. The goal was to bring together the oven functionality with the microwave usage and let both lead to the same user experience.
In addition to the concept the screen layout and a lot of icons had to be created or redesigned – all in black and white – every pixel counts.
Images by courtesy of Gaggenau Hausgeräte GmbH.
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