Sound Design

Earlier this semester, Interaction Design first year masters students worked with the Advanced Product Design first year masters students on a two week sound design project. The basis of the brief was to pick an existing product that has either no or little sound design properties and redesign the product with a focus on sound while also evaluating and redesigning form and light aspects.

Within my group of four (3 IxD’ers and 1 APD), we designed an interactive mixing bowl that aims to create a playful and positive educational baking experience through de-emphasizing the focus of accuracy, and reinterpreting the measurement and relationship of ingredients via real-time sound and light feedback.

More details will be given later this spring once I update, both in content and design, my portfolio, but for now you can view process videos of our working prototype below.

Sound Bowl – Process Video 1 from Karey Helms on Vimeo.

Sound Bowl – Process Video 2 from Karey Helms on Vimeo.

Sound Bowl – Process Video 3 from Karey Helms on Vimeo.

OzCHI 24 Hour Student Design Competition Winners

Very behind on my blogging and forgot to post last fall that team Lagom won the OzCHI 24 hour design competition!

Check out the winner’s list here:
https://sites.google.com/site/ozchi24hour/finalists

Ozchi 24 Hour Student Design Challenge

usTiime by Lagom from Karey Helms on Vimeo.

This past weekend I did the Ozchi 24 hour student design challenge competition. Above is our submission. Information regarding our process and final solution available on our team blog.

Team Lagom

Celebrating post project submission!

Parallax Scrolling Portfolio Redesign

Finally got around to a portfolio spruce up, transforming my former website homepage into a single page parallax scrolling website. Since my new homepage only features a small selection of my web and graphic design work (along with some projects from architecture school), I’ll hopefully be able to focus some time this spring on a slight continued redesign of my remaining portfolio work in its current location for potential freelance clients interested in seeing my full range of work.

My new homepage is created using lots of custom JavaScript to attain the parallax effect, layers moving at different speeds to give the illusion of depth. Some jQuery plugins I am also using are QueryLoader v2 as a preloader, jQuery Cycle Plugin for a simple fade slideshow, and Slides as an additional slideshow plugin for my physical architecture models.