Exploring and Implementing Pleasant Touch in the Interface of Products for Design Purposes: The Case of a Bang &amp; Olufsen TV Remote Control

This thesis proposes a design strategy for pleasant touch. Literature is reviewed on the importance of pleasant touch, existing implementations in products and design for tactility. A lack of competence is found on how to design for pleasant touch in the interface of products: functional pleasant tactility. Therefore, a design vision is created by the author as a designer, on how to design functional pleasant tactility. The envisioned design strategy is then implemented through a case study of a Bang & Olufsen TV remote control. The case study includes 3 sequential phases: exploring, designing and evaluating functional pleasant tactility in the given context. Exploring was done through workshops where design students were asked to touch objects with various material properties. Pleasant movements were performed with the objects, and matching functions were imagined, resulting in ‘actions’. Those actions were analyzed to discover three underlying themes of inviting, mastery and logic. In the designing phase those themes were translated into three corresponding design concepts, and worked out into prototypes. In the evaluating phase those prototypes were tested with that target group, and the results were used to create a final design concept. As a researcher, the author then concludes with a design strategy that is expected to work for the broader context of industrial design, and recommends further research with this strategy for different products and companies.

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Pleasant Touch
Functional Pleasant Tactility
Design Strategy
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Bang & Olufsen

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