Dabby Streaming Device
The Dabby streaming device streamlines your living room entertainment experience by pairing a 2nd screen remote control device with a unified content discovery experience reducing the time to playback. By putting all of your content in one place Dabby eliminates the extra clicks and loading overhead required to go in and out of apps while browsing. A 10ft. main screen and handheld screen experience allows you to quickly start watching on your main screen (the 10 ft. experience) while carrying out your browsing intent on your 2nd screen.
Company: Dabby
Role: Lead — industrial design, UX, and hardware
Designer: Rakmun Bryant-Vick
Timing: 2017–2020
Final EVT design for the Dabby handheld unit
2nd Screen Browsing in a 3 Component Eco-system: Kickstarter Prototype
Unified Streaming Content Discovery Supported by a 2nd Screen Experience
A new level of mobility and continuity from 10ft to 2 ft experiences
Voice control and a 2nd screen to provide the fastest path to watching
A new way to control your TV
Concept Development: Building Dabby
Concept Sketching and Storyboarding: A focus on control and social viewing
Prototyping and Feedback: Testing assumptions with a wide range of prototypes
Feature Development: Building more fully featured prototypes
ID Finalization: Narrowing down the physical requirements
Dog Fooding: With the general direction defined we needed to be able to dog food our solution in order to create a refined product that was ready for a consumer market and production
EVT Development: A rough UX and a well defined form factor allowed us to define our hardware requirements and move into the EVT Process
CES: "Best of CES" award from The Chicago Tribune
Post-COVID Pivot: Post-Covid Pivot to Off the Shelf Hardware and Acquisition