Mark's Societal Artifacts

Assignment: Create a nice collection of information that describes the results of your project. Product Name: Post-it® Dashboard I very much see this solution as a brand extension for the ubiquitous 3M Post-it® product line. The traditional use of Post-its as essentially a physical short messaging service, while incredibly useful, can be somewhat haphazard. For many…

Assignment: Build a working prototype of your chosen concept. My Gap: Use data visualization to minimize disruption to a family’s daily routine. Key user needs being addressed: A dashboard where my family can go to understand everyone’s schedule Measures time – where people are/where people should be Notifies the right people at the right time…

Assignment: Choose concept to move forward with based on user feedback. Moving forward with Prototype H: Post Its I tested my initial prototypes with several potential end users who all responded positively to the concept of a family dashboard. The testing consisted of general feedback after being exposed to each prototype to determine each person’s…

Assignment: Prototype your selected concepts. Prototype A: Community Calendar Prototype E: Omniscient Clock Prototype H: Post Its

Assignment: Create a concept selection matrix and evaluate your 10 concepts.

Assignment: Draw a chair in 3/4 view using 2 point perspective.

Assignment 1: Diagram a decomposition of the design problem. Assignment 2: Sketch 10 design concepts that address the problem statement.

Assignment: Draw orthographic projections and a section view of a chair.

Assignment: List all of the user needs presented by your refined gap statement including any latent ones. My refined “gap” is… Use data visualization to minimize disruption to a family’s daily routine: quantifying the things that we all do to make a family run like clockwork. User needs… The data visualization is easy to understand…

Assignment: List of problem statements arranged hierarchically. In what way might we… increase family unity and satisfaction by decreasing confusion and miscommunication? ↑ Why? | ensure that everyone in the family is maximizing their time and where they need to be? ↑ Why? | use data to minimize disruption to our daily routine?* (new problem)…

Assignment: Solve your own problem. I have decided to build a mobile app to solve my gap. The reason for this is that my mobile device has all of the built in functionality that I need in order to address this problem: notifications, GPS/mapping, communication tools, network connectivity, always with me. Visual Expression User (most…

Assignment: Draw a chair.

Assignment: Make a list of 10 things in your day to day life that have second-rate UX. Raking the leaves: Why should I clean up after Mother Nature if she wants to be a litterbug? *Waiting for the school bus: Never comes on time in either snow, sleet, rain, or shine. Managing home networked devices…

Assignment: Describe an artifact that you “love” and why you love it. I am a huge fan of a small piece of software called Synergy. Here’s a pretty good explanation of what it does: As someone who works in IT I spend a lot of time moving between devices and platforms. Before Synergy my desk…