buttons and handles

CCRMA Stanford University

Music 250 - Physical Interaction Design for Music

homework 3: Design a Portable Digital Music Player

Due Monday October 13


Design (with sketches) a portable digital music player. Use 1 or 2 8.5x11" pages or the equivalent.

Tips:
  • Don't include details of electronics or programming. Instead, consider only the physical characteristics of the device and the interaction design. Show how someone would operate it, and highlight its most important features.
  • Does it have handles or buttons? Is it expressive?
  • Have a particular user and scenario in mind. Who is going to use it? Where? Why?
  • This could be your device. Feel free to use your own perspective. What's wrong with the mp3 player you currently own? What do you wish it could do differently?