Aether Audio

Industrial design and companion app for a high-fidelity smart speaker.

Designing a physical interface that feels invisible. The goal was to remove buttons and screens, relying entirely on gesture and voice, while maintaining a premium, tactile feel for the device hardware.

We developed a fabric-touch capacitive surface that wraps the entire device. The companion app mirrors this simplicity, using fluid animations to represent sound waves, creating a seamless connection between the digital controller and the physical object.