GOOD DESIGN AWARD

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Award-winning item: GUI (Graphic User Interface) [Washing machine GUI T4923V0Z]
Category: Interaction design for personal/home equipment and device
Company: LG Electronics, Inc. (South Korea)
Award Number: 13G121019
Outline of Good Design Award winners: Outline of Good Design Award winners 2013

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Outline: The lifelike metaphors, the clean Natural Interface & Interaction, created a friendly, non-threatening emotional quality to the washing machine.
Producer: Jeonghwa Yang/ Senior Designer (Interaction design team, Home Appliance design lab.)
Director: Jina Lee/ Designer (Interaction design team, Home Appliance design lab.), Jeongin Park/ Assistant designer (Interaction design team, Home Appliance design lab.)
Designer: Youjin Lee/ Designer (Interaction design team, Home Appliance design lab.), Eungyeong Kwon/ Designer (Interaction design team, Home Appliance design lab.)
Market release pending: 2013/8/1

Evaluation

This is a challenge to make the complex and various functions of home electronic appliances easier to operate by utilizing the rich ability of smartphones to express information. At the same time, this product enables self-diagnosis for device failures by directly connecting to the network, which indicates how the interfaces of home electronic appliances should be in the future. The relationship between clothing material, weight, and purpose can be clearly indicated, and the integration of information design and hardware is being attempted.