Hermès
2025
Figma
After Effects
Solid Works
UX
Consumer Electronic
Product
Sponsored
Myself | Interaction Designer
Tommy | Industrial / Fashion Designer
Zoe | Product Designer
Hermès
2025
Figma
After Effects
Solid Works
UX
Consumer Electronic
Product
Sponsored
Myself | Interaction Designer
Tommy | Industrial / Fashion Designer
Zoe | Product Designer
In collaboration with Hermès and ArtCenter, this project visualizes an essential object for the pocket. The exploration focused on what makes an everyday carry item indispensable beyond the phone, wallet, and keys. The result is Écho, a voice recorder designed to preserve memories as a timeless accessory, romanticizing the power of sound.
Taking inspiration from Mr. Pierre-Alexis Dumas himself, we decided to explore the world of sound and capture the unseen. Sound is a powerful medium expressing beyond what you can capture through words. The soft tone of your grandma's voice, the birds chirping in the trees, these moments are more vivid and immersive when heard rather than described. We want to preserve all the information that creates your experience giving you memories beyond written letters.
Introducing Écho, our sound keepsake for people to record, organize, and play captured sounds. We keep our most used buttons on one side for easy recognition while other buttons more hidden for the egoist. We embrace the tactility feeling of the button, tracing back to its original form and celebrate it in each and every press. Feel the product speak back as it react to your touch.
The button layout on the device is carefully designed to be used without looking at the device. Starting at the top and moving down, push the top button to start and stop recording. To organize your recordings, use title button to name your sounds as your record them. We placed the title button right under the record button for those who like the start their recordings with the title being able to click both buttons with one push. With the folder system, you can catalog your recordings in 3 different folders customizable in the app.
Hidden under the leather reveals secondary functions such as playback. Push the left button to start playing past recordings swiping left and right to navigate recordings and tapping to pause and play.
While the physical device is for fast, everyday moments, the app focuses on the work side of recordings. Create and customize folders, listen back with precision, and use AI to summary and transcribe your recordings. The visual style is largely influenced by the Le Monde D’Hermès magazines to keep the identity of Hermès.
For the sounds that hold a special meaning, push on the hidden button on the dial to play sounds that bring you joy. To change which sounds play, enter the garden of echoes where all your favorite recordings are housed in a garden illustration.
I am truly grateful to be apart of this project. it was an honor to be one of the first students at ArtCenter to collab with Hermès alongside my team. Hermès was a great client being just as passionate as us in the collaboration. It started with me and my team going to Paris and visiting their headquarters, taking in all the references I needed for the project. Within just 14 weeks, we conceptualized the project with prototypes, physical mockups, demos, and a final showcase for Hermès. I wanted this project to truly feel like a real Hermès item being sold in stores. There was extensive research about Hermès as a brand and their upbringing that was poured into this project both into the physical appear and deep poetic meaning. As a brand that holds craftsmanship, heritage, and intentionality at its core, I wanted to bring that same energy into my project.
