OU
Disciplines: Industrial Design Direction, Strategic Research, Rendering, CMF & Prototyping
Scope: 20 weeks
Completed: Spring 2024
OU is a sensorial journal that helps you experience the present and embark on a journey back to you. Through a system of devices that consists of a primary hub and portable device, OU influences you to improve your memory and experience your present through the incentive of memory recollection through your senses. All these cues give you the space to reflect on your day and encourage you to live more in the present, with all the memories from the past, and keep them for the future. (Under NDA)
Credits:
Isabela Urriola - Graphic Designer & Branding Santiago Avella - UX Designer Ron Bhowmik - Metal Work Lead Kazimir Skye - Photographer
Memory loss is a growing mental health issue, affecting more than 40% of the global population.
Bringing together your past, present, and future.
Two Products, One Goal
By creating a system of products, OU helps to have a constant reminder to live in the present, keep the past, and carry it into the future. From a main hub that allows you to relive experiences to a portable device that helps you remember events more accurately, both devices combined create the possibility of having a better presence and reliving experiences.
The main hub or OU serves as the main communicator with you. The more you talk with it, the more it will get to know you to enhance your senses and be able to recreate moments and relieve experiences through various smells, sounds, and visuals. The more you are open to it, the more sources it will suggest to help you recover hidden memories.
The Main Hub.
OU’s Portable device or SPoT allows you to recollect better your days, by remembering various locations you were during the day. When you go home, you can plug it back into the main hub, and OU will know better about your day and can ask you more in-depth questions that enable you to recall other moments you might not remember before.
The SPoT.
Creating OU for our users, with the help of our users.
From day one, we strived to put our users first. Therefore, in each phase of our process, we made sure to integrate our users to create an accurate product that could fulfill their needs and achieve an impact on them.
Iterate, iterate, itarate...
By making our users our priority, their feedback, thoughts, and ideas were considered throughout the entire creation of OU. For this reason, the main design and concept went through various variations, from big ideas to little details, to achieve the best quality product for them.
Let’s bring back the past, experience the present, and create lasting memories for the future!
Thank you so much to all the people who collaborated with me to bring OU to life!
If you would like to know more about my work, don’t hesitate to get in touch!