■CONCEPT DEVELOPMENT

Feel was the chosen sense to design for due to its limited availability of solutions, but also because most feel-based clocks require learning an entire code like braille or Morse code. Watches exist that use the circle-hand interface with bumps to indicate time for the blind, but these can get gummed up with dirt and muck. What was proposed, then, was to make a clock that uses varying pulses and simple addition to read out time, so anyone can pick up on the interface's readout quickly through a skill they already understand.

INTERFACE CONCEPT

  • ​The product would "bump" the user in two different spots somewhere on their body
  • Each bump differs in intensity to help further distinguish the two bumps.​
  • During a digit readout, the heavier bump (Zone B) indicates the addition of a 5. The lighter one (Zone A) indicates the addition of a 1.
  • Each digit readout is separated by recognizable pause between each digit readout.
  • A bump pattern from the light bump to the heavy bump (Zone A followed by Zone B) notates a zero.