BareBones - Product Design
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Product Design
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Reimagining speaker design by transforming hidden electrical connections into structural features, creating an interactive audio experience that celebrates transparency and assembly.
About the Project
Barebones is a speaker concept that reimagines how electronic products are experienced. Instead of concealing internal components, the design exposes and celebrates them, turning electrical connections into visible structural elements.
By combining transparency with user assembly, Barebones invites people to better understand how a speaker works while creating a more engaging relationship between user and product.
Making the Invisible Visible
Barebones challenges conventional product design by transforming hidden cables into the framework that supports, powers, and connects every component. Function becomes the visual language, creating a product that is both educational and expressive.
Visible Construction
Rather than hiding electronics behind an enclosure, Barebones reveals the crossover, amplifier, drivers, and wiring in a clean, structured composition. Every connection serves both a functional and visual purpose.
Designed for Participation
Users become part of the assembly process by routing and connecting the structural cables themselves. This transforms setup into an interactive experience, encouraging curiosity and a deeper understanding of the product.
Beyond Conventional Speakers
Available as both Table Edition and Wall Edition, Barebones adapts to different living spaces while maintaining the same design philosophy of openness, simplicity, and purposeful construction.
Transparency as Design
Barebones demonstrates that product design doesn't have to hide complexity. By making internal systems visible and understandable, it creates a stronger connection between users and the technology they use every day.
Function Becomes Form
More than a speaker, Barebones is an exploration of honest design—where structure, electronics, and interaction work together to create a product that is both intuitive and expressive.
A collaborative work by Dannon Low and Jared Sim
Under the guidance of Tiffany Loy
Platform leader | Making Links
Division of Industrial Design, National University of Singapore
