TATIANA
The artificial intelligence biker ring
Giving your bike a voice
Our goal is to redifine the way you interact with your bike with TATIANA, a ring that aims to personify your bike using artificial intelligence.
New dimensions
Experience the emotions, demands and wishes of your bike like never before.
Have full-on conversations with your bike with the built-in microphone or pair wireless headphones.
You can leave the bike and still take her along with you.
Eyes on the road
TATIANA is designed to be controlled using hand gestures and your voice, so that you never have to lift your hand off the handle.
The ring also utilizes a LED and a vibrating feature to seamlessly notify the user.
New look
The ring is fully customizable with different colors and motifs. It is important that your ring matches your bike.
Research phase
In order to design a effective product for the target group, a interview was required. The interview was held with a man named Tucker "thunderstruck" Jones, a 41 year old biker from Texas, USA.
The information of the interview is collected into this bio.
Brainstorming phase
The first brainstorm session was all about what problems the wearable would fix. The first wearables were about his crypto business, but i quickly pivoted to his relationship with his bike because it was a more compelling idea to me.
A lot of the ideas that i had created relied on one principle: Being able to look at important information without lifting your hands of the bike. I brainstormed a wide range of apparel: from holographic tattoos, projecting jewelry to more traditional biker gear with HUDs.
I also thought about implementing ai to the bike. I liked that idea, so i took that and combined it with the ring which ended up being the final idea.
sketching phase
A signet ring design was chosen because of the flat top. It is ideal for a small screen. I was mainly inspired by the shape of NBA championship rings, because of their size and form.
Sketches were made to illustrate what shape would be ideal for the ring.
UI
There are two main obstacles to designing the UI: readability and intuitiveness.
The icons on the screen need to be readable from about an arms distance and it needs to be easy to understand so that the user doesn't stare at it.
The focus of the first UI design made in Adobe XD was heavily focused on crypto. After some feedback from a teacher i decided to drop the crypto and fully focus on the relationship aspect of the wearable.
Colors are a great way to show emotions, so i used that to show the emotions of your bike. The gas icon was changed so that the emphasis stays on the color wheel.
The arrow indicates where your bike is, the message icon lights up when your bike wants to tell you something and the bar on the right is a gas indicator.
Prototyping phase
Two prototypes were made to test the function and function of the wearable.
Prototype 1 was made to test the concept, and prototype 2 was made to test the ergonomics of my design.
Design phase
I designed the ring in Blender. The aestetic of the ring is cross between biker and apple technology
Styleboard
A styleboard was created with all the elements that inspired this wearable.
Reflectie
Ik ben blij met mijn eindproduct. Ik vind dat ik het ook goed heb gepresenteerd op Behance. Een persoonlijke doel die ik voor mijzelf had opgesteld was eerder knopen doorhakken. Dat is mij gelukt. Ik had al snel gekozen wat ik zou maken. Daardoor kon ik focussen op het eindproduct.
Het ontwerpen van de ring heb ik vooral gedaan op Blender. Sommige elementen waren te moeilijk om te ontwerpen in Blender, dus die had ik weggelaten. Toch ben ik blij met het ontwerp. Het belichten van de ring vond ik het leukst.
Het maken van de prototypes ging ook heel goed. Ik had wel een probleem met het maken van mijn tweede prototype. De klei brokkelde af toen ik het wilde schuren. Dat moest ik fixen.
