Karten Design Differentiates Hard Drives, Adding Functional Value
Commoditization and obsolescence threatened to make Hitachi GST’s products irrelevant. The hard drive market has been driven by price and technical specifications and faced outside competition from more lightweight, portable options like flash memory and cloud storage. Hitachi needed a product that would remain relevant to young customers, many of whom are creating content on the go from multiple sources throughout the day.
Based on research exploring the new ways that young “Digital Natives” are interacting with digital data, Karten designed the LifeStudio family of personal hard drives. While competing drives are designed for data security, LifeStudio drives meet users’ needs for validation, community, sharing and creation. LifeStudio helps people organize and share data with innovations such as the industry’s first integrated USB drive that lets users take information on the go.
While other hard drives compete on specifications and price, Karten Design’s innovations change the game, adding new functional value to the hard drive.
Commoditization and obsolescence threatened to make Hitachi GST’s products irrelevant. The hard drive market has been driven by price and technical specifications and faced outside competition from more lightweight, portable options like flash memory and cloud storage. Hitachi needed a product that would remain relevant to young customers, many of whom are creating content on the go from multiple sources throughout the day.
Based on research exploring the new ways that young “Digital Natives” are interacting with digital data, Karten designed the LifeStudio family of personal hard drives. While competing drives are designed for data security, LifeStudio drives meet users’ needs for validation, community, sharing and creation. LifeStudio helps people organize and share data with innovations such as the industry’s first integrated USB drive that lets users take information on the go.
While other hard drives compete on specifications and price, Karten Design’s innovations change the game, adding new functional value to the hard drive.
The Hitachi LifeStudio Plus hard drives are the first to introduce an integrated 4GB USB key that lets users take their saved content on the go. Modified files sync with the user's computer when the key is docked back onto the hard drive.
