03/15/2016
I 💔 SONOS
Late last year I decided to go ahead and buy one SONOS PLAY:1 for the purpose of experiencing their setup process, app and sound quality first hand. Awesome! So easy, so solid, so very good.
And so I was thoroughly sold. SONOS became the audio platform for my family's new home. By Christmas I'd purchased a variety of SONOS hardware and we all continued to truly enjoy our whole-house system (to date: two PLAY:1s, one PLAYBAR, two SUBs, three PLAY:3s and four CONNECT:AMPs driving four pairs of in-ceiling speakers). I told anybody who would listen that SONOS' tag line should be "Yes." because yes, it does that, whatever you might want it to do. SONOS does functional things so seamlessly I began asserting the notion that "if it's not as easy as SONOS it's broken" in product development conversations at JDID.
A few months in, I don't really broken-heart SONOS. I fully intend to add to my SONOS. However, I've noticed some gaps in the solution and sighted many others within the SONOS Community posting and communicating about various issues and gaps as well. I've decided to put some industrial design efforts toward addressing opportunities to improve the SONOS experience overall.
Over the next five weeks JDID will publish six SONOS-complementing product design concepts.
We'll start with something unexpected, settle into a few that could have mass appeal and top them off with the one idea that is the genesis of our entire project. I sincerely hope you find them all intriguing and weather you have personal experience with SONOS or not, you might appreciate our work. Thank you.
