{"id":12330,"date":"2025-07-08T22:31:33","date_gmt":"2025-07-08T15:31:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cstc.vn\/blogtsk\/design-criticism-the-nothing-headphone-1-a-bold-effort\/"},"modified":"2025-07-08T22:31:33","modified_gmt":"2025-07-08T15:31:33","slug":"design-criticism-the-nothing-headphone-1-a-bold-effort","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cstc.vn\/blogtsk\/design-criticism-the-nothing-headphone-1-a-bold-effort\/","title":{"rendered":"Design Criticism: The Nothing Headphone (1), a Bold Effort"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kudos to upstart tech brand Nothing for trying something different with their <a href=\"https:\/\/us.nothing.tech\/products\/headphone-1?Colour=White\">Nothing Headphone (1)<\/a>. That said, the aesthetic may appeal to some, but I see it as a big miss.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>To me, the design is trying to do too much. While that is probably the point\u2014in today&#8217;s oversaturated world, you need bold visuals in order to cut through the signal noise\u2014I think the designers are too on-the-nose, referentially speaking, simply evoking other objects rather than finding an original form.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>The outside of the earcups consists of two clunky elements. The outermost is meant to evoke an analog audio cassette, as if you&#8217;re wearing a Walkman with a racetrack-shaped visibility window on each ear. The innermost body of the cup, an aluminum squircle\u2014or rectangircle\u2014evokes, presumably accidentally, an older MacBook Pro squashed into cutesy dimensions.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>In my opinion, the displeasing effect of these two forms is less hi-tech\/cyberpunk and more low-budget sci-fi show props department, desperately trying to create something futuristic-looking by mashing two things together. And attaching two geometric shapes to each other robs designers of the opportunity (or, uncharitably, allows them to sidestep) the artful business of dealing with transitions between elements, where I think great design can happen.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>That said, I&#8217;m not the (young) target market, and the brand has collaborated with venerated British audio brand KEF on the guts, so we can assume the sound is high-quality.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>On the features side, the headphones offer active noise canceling and a respectable 80 hours of playback time.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>The Nothing Headphones (1) run $299, which is considerably less than similar offerings from Apple, Bose or Sony. <\/p>\n<p class=\"at_end\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kudos to upstart tech brand Nothing for trying something different with their Nothing Headphone (1). That said, the aesthetic may appeal to some, but I see it as a big miss. To me, the design &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[147],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v16.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Design Criticism: The Nothing Headphone (1), a Bold Effort - Blog TSK<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/cstc.vn\/blogtsk\/design-criticism-the-nothing-headphone-1-a-bold-effort\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Design Criticism: The Nothing Headphone (1), a Bold Effort - Blog TSK\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Kudos to upstart tech brand Nothing for trying something different with their Nothing Headphone (1). That said, the aesthetic may appeal to some, but I see it as a big miss. To me, the design &hellip;\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/cstc.vn\/blogtsk\/design-criticism-the-nothing-headphone-1-a-bold-effort\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Blog TSK\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2025-07-08T15:31:33+00:00\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/cstc.vn\/blogtsk\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/cstc.vn\/blogtsk\/\",\"name\":\"Blog TSK\",\"description\":\"\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/cstc.vn\/blogtsk\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":\"required name=search_term_string\"}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/cstc.vn\/blogtsk\/design-criticism-the-nothing-headphone-1-a-bold-effort\/#webpage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/cstc.vn\/blogtsk\/design-criticism-the-nothing-headphone-1-a-bold-effort\/\",\"name\":\"Design Criticism: The Nothing Headphone (1), a Bold Effort - Blog TSK\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/cstc.vn\/blogtsk\/#website\"},\"datePublished\":\"2025-07-08T15:31:33+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2025-07-08T15:31:33+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"\"},\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/cstc.vn\/blogtsk\/design-criticism-the-nothing-headphone-1-a-bold-effort\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/cstc.vn\/blogtsk\/design-criticism-the-nothing-headphone-1-a-bold-effort\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/cstc.vn\/blogtsk\/design-criticism-the-nothing-headphone-1-a-bold-effort\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/cstc.vn\/blogtsk\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Design Criticism: The Nothing Headphone (1), a Bold Effort\"}]}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Design Criticism: The Nothing Headphone (1), a Bold Effort - Blog TSK","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/cstc.vn\/blogtsk\/design-criticism-the-nothing-headphone-1-a-bold-effort\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Design Criticism: The Nothing Headphone (1), a Bold Effort - Blog TSK","og_description":"Kudos to upstart tech brand Nothing for trying something different with their Nothing Headphone (1). That said, the aesthetic may appeal to some, but I see it as a big miss. To me, the design &hellip;","og_url":"https:\/\/cstc.vn\/blogtsk\/design-criticism-the-nothing-headphone-1-a-bold-effort\/","og_site_name":"Blog TSK","article_published_time":"2025-07-08T15:31:33+00:00","twitter_misc":{"Est. reading time":"1 minute"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/cstc.vn\/blogtsk\/#website","url":"https:\/\/cstc.vn\/blogtsk\/","name":"Blog TSK","description":"","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/cstc.vn\/blogtsk\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/cstc.vn\/blogtsk\/design-criticism-the-nothing-headphone-1-a-bold-effort\/#webpage","url":"https:\/\/cstc.vn\/blogtsk\/design-criticism-the-nothing-headphone-1-a-bold-effort\/","name":"Design Criticism: The Nothing Headphone (1), a Bold Effort - Blog TSK","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/cstc.vn\/blogtsk\/#website"},"datePublished":"2025-07-08T15:31:33+00:00","dateModified":"2025-07-08T15:31:33+00:00","author":{"@id":""},"breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/cstc.vn\/blogtsk\/design-criticism-the-nothing-headphone-1-a-bold-effort\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/cstc.vn\/blogtsk\/design-criticism-the-nothing-headphone-1-a-bold-effort\/"]}]},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/cstc.vn\/blogtsk\/design-criticism-the-nothing-headphone-1-a-bold-effort\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/cstc.vn\/blogtsk\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Design Criticism: The Nothing Headphone (1), a Bold Effort"}]}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cstc.vn\/blogtsk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12330"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cstc.vn\/blogtsk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cstc.vn\/blogtsk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cstc.vn\/blogtsk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12330"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cstc.vn\/blogtsk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12330\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cstc.vn\/blogtsk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cstc.vn\/blogtsk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12330"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cstc.vn\/blogtsk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}