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A' Design Award in Digital and Electronic Device Design Goes to Snyearth Intuitive Global Clock by Xiaolong Li and Cheng Yao
Xiaolong Li and Cheng Yao recognized for digital and electronic device design by the international grand jury of the 2022 - 2023 A' Design Award & Competition
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COMO, Italy, April 20, 2023 /DesignNewswire/ Snyearth Intuitive Global Clock by Xiaolong Li and Cheng Yao, designed for Zhejiang University, has been granted the A' Design Award in the Digital and Electronic Device Design category, A' Design Award & Competition has announced. The award was conferred within the 2022 - 2023 A' Design Award & Competition and was determined through blind peer review by an international grand jury panel of established academics, design professionals and press members, who assessed anonymized entries against predetermined criteria.
The A' Design Award Explained
The Iron A' Design Award is awarded to good designs that meet the rigorous professional and industrial standards set by the A' Design Awards. This recognition is reserved for works that demonstrate a solid understanding of design principles and show creativity within their execution. Recipients of the Iron A' Design Award are acknowledged for their practical innovations and contributions to their respective fields, providing solutions that improve quality of life and foster positive change. These designs are a testament to the skill and dedication of their creators, showcasing their ability to address real-world challenges through thoughtful design.
More About Snyearth Intuitive Global Clock
Snyearth is a world clock that displays the time of cities on a levitating globe. A single touch on a city location shows the local time of that city on the tray below. When two or more cities are selected, the time difference between them is displayed automatically. A translucent ring window with full-color LED lights reflects the colors of the sky in each time zone. Inside the globe, a directional light source simulates the alternation of day and night. The levitation is achieved with permanent magnets, electromagnets and Hall sensors.
About Xiaolong Li and Cheng Yao
He has won more than 50 design awards at all levels, including the first prize of ncda, and has five patents, specializing in product design, interaction design and ai-aided design. He has developed independent games, participated in the development of the world's first electric camping trolley in 2022, participated in the whole process of electric camping trolley development, mainly responsible for the output of body iteration program, website display content output, follow up the factory production progress, etc. The product Outisan e-Wagon became the star product of the website homepage after it hit indiegogo.
Award Record
This recognition makes Xiaolong Li and Cheng Yao a winner of 1 A' Design Award.
About the A' Digital and Electronic Device Design Award
The A' Consumer Electronics Design Award is an international design competition recognizing good consumer electronics designs by leading brands worldwide. The competition is organized within the A' Design Award & Competition and is open to consumer electronics designers, consumer electronics brands, consumer electronics manufacturers and electronic product manufacturers from all countries. Entries typically include smartphones, laptops, televisions, cameras, headphones and smartwatches. Awarded consumer electronics designs are published at https://desingers.org/design-category/consumer-electronics
About A' Design Award & Competition
A' Design Award & Competition is an international, juried design accolade organized annually since 2008. The competition is open to entries from all countries. The A' Design Award has a philanthropic mission to advance society through good design by recognizing and promoting superior products, projects and services that benefit society, and by creating a global awareness and appreciation for good design practices and principles. Entries are peer reviewed and anonymously evaluated by an international grand jury panel of established academics, design professionals and press members against predetermined criteria such as functionality, ergonomics, engineering, presentation, innovation, usability, sustainability and technology, with score normalization applied to remove biases. Awards are conferred at Platinum, Gold, Silver, Bronze and Iron levels. The A' Design Prize granted to eligible laureates includes the award trophy, the certificate of design excellence, the hardcover yearbook, a lifetime license to use the A' Design Award winner logo, exhibition of awarded works, an invitation to the gala night and award ceremony in Italy, inclusion in the World Design Rankings and Designer Rankings, and public relations and publicity services. Registration, the upload of a work and the preliminary score are free of charge, and Professional and Digital Edition laureates are not contractually obliged to pay further fees to claim the A' Design Prize. Further information is available at https://competition.adesignaward.com
Press Resources
- Winner Page: https://desingers.org/150006
- A' Design Award Page: https://competition.adesignaward.com/150006
- Media Showcase: https://www.designnewsroom.com/!150006
- Laureate Profile: https://desingers.org/d/343433
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Fact Sheet
The Work
- Project
- Snyearth Intuitive Global Clock
- Function
- Intuitive Global Clock
- Category
- Digital and Electronic Device Design
- Discipline
- Industrial Design
- Industry
- Electronics & Appliances
- Colors
- Silver, Gainsboro, Dark Gray, Light Gray and Gray
- Images
- 5
- Client
- Zhejiang University
The Recognition
- Laureate
- Xiaolong Li and Cheng Yao
- Country
- China
- Recognition
- A' Design Award
- Edition
- 2022 - 2023
- Design ID
- #150006
Credits
- Team
- Xiaolong Li, Cheng Yao, Yiming Cheng, Zhengke Li, Sizhou Zhang, Shichao Huang, Yan Fang and Haoye Dong
Design Details
- Unique Properties
- Snyearth provides a new way of displaying world time. User can intuitively observe the current time of any city in the world. As time goes by, the colorful time wheel reflects the light and shadow of the sky at the current moment,Meanwhile, the lights inside the globe simulate the alternation of day and night. When in use, Snyearth only needs a simple touch to display the accurate local time of the selected city.
- Inspiration
- The current way of displaying the world time is often a combination of multiple traditional clocks, which is not intuitive enough, and the time difference between different places cannot be represented visually. It is also not possible to view the region where you wish to view the time at will. The design is inspired by the hovering globe, and by displaying the world time on the globe, the time of different regions can be displayed more intuitively.
- Research
- Firstly summarized and analyzed the existing world clocks, and found that the existing world clocks are in a single form, and it is difficult to read the time. The product iteration was carried out through the double diamond model. Last, a control experiment was conducted on the product prototype and the traditional world clock, and the results showed that it can help users get time zone information more quickly and intuitively, and also received higher scores on the interactivity dimension.
- Challenge
- The biggest problem encountered in the design process of this project is the internal structure design. Due to the use of maglev technology, the internal components must be arranged in a reasonable position to avoid electromagnetic disturbance, and also need to keep the shape as compact and simple as possible, so several iterations of the structure arrangement were made during the design process to complete the existing structure scheme.
- Realization and Technology
- The gravitational force is provided by permanent magnets, while the repulsive force generated by the electromagnets in the base is controlled precisely and in real-time using three axial Hall sensors to achieve stability of the levitating part in all directions. Full-color LED lights are placed at the right place under the translucent ring window to achieve a colorful and natural transition display effect, and a directional rotating light source is used inside the globe to ensure a realistic simulation of the earth's day and night effect.
- Operation and Interaction
- When using it, the user can touch the corresponding city location on the globe to display the local time of that city in real-time on the tray below. And if more than two cities are selected by the user, Snyearth can also automatically display the time difference between the cities.
- Project Duration and Location
- The project starts in Shenzhen in May 2022 and ends in Hangzhou in September 2022.
- Specifications
- Dimension: 200mm x 200mm x 150mm Battery capacity: 4000mAh Power supply mode: USB type-c Input: 5V / 2000mA
- Keywords
- World clocks, Home electronics, Smart products, Maglev, Lamps
