Today I started some independantly research into the potential context for our newly chosen concept direction - festivals. Having been to a number of festivals in my lifetime I can relate on a personal level the potential this conceptual direction has for being successful, as too can the other group members as they too have been to a number of festivals themselves.
Below are a list of a few of the major festivals in Australia and their respective logos;
Below are a list of a few of the major festivals in Australia and their respective logos;
Splendour in the Grass;
Parklife;
Sterosonic;
Soundwave;
Big Day Out;
Falls Festival;
A number of the festivals use connection and relation with nature in their logos and advertising posters, this is possibly related to the fact that these festivals are held in areas as such, like Falls Festival is held out the back of Lorne, Victoria in bushland. Splendour in the Grass is held in the fields of Woodford and Byron.
These potential environments and elements they have to offer may need to be considered late on when designing our chosen product.
Through my brief research looking into the context of our product I thought of a number of inclusions we could incorporate for our product;
Considerations we already have;
locating friends at the festival
finding friends that are dancing
Considerations I looked at;
locating friends on the way to the festival - ensuring everyone arrives together and enters the venue together
providing information or news - weather? bands? (unlikely due to the restriction of not being able to include interactive screens on the product)
When I meet with the group again I will bring forward these thoughts and hopefully we will start getting somewhere with the design of the product.
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Today was a productive day as we really began to understand the products purpose and offerings for the user. We narrowed down its features and functionality to;
Expressing a dancing individual through colour variation of the LEDs
Expressing a static individual through colour variation of the LEDs
Expressing directional location of an individual
Expressing the distance of an invdividual through changing the intensity of the LEDs relating to proximity
Another output consideration was vibration, but that was quickly scrapped due to the nature of the environment (loud music = vibrations) so it would be too confusing for a user to gauge whether the device was communicating with them or whether it was just their surroundings.
From here we started to mock up some concepts for shape and form as well as display ideas. Yasu came around just as we started to conceptually design our intentions and luckily he did because he pointed out a number of factors that we overlooked. One of the issues he picked up on was the use of flashing LEDs to translate proximity, stating (obvious now you think of it) that it would be difficult to gauge the communication of the device and the LED intensity in an outdoor setting.
Yasu didnt only point out our flaws, he also approved some of the other design considerations we had as a group, like the use of a docking station in which the individuals would allign or sync their devices to form their group. He explained that the technology behind this process would be to assign each device a unique ID code related to that group, so whether it was 3 devices or 50 devices in a group, the technology could support our design intention. YAY!!!
After we cleared those things up we decided to fix the issues he pointed out, so back to the drawing board it was (even though we didnt really get a chance pre Yasu's arrival haha). We looked at coming up with alternative ways to expressing proximity of another user to an individual.
Below are some images of group discussion conceptual workings and Hannahs and Steves individual ideas;
This first image shows the groups decision of having proximity expressed through colour variation instead of light intensity. A wise altercation I think.
As a group we then began to look at the storyboard for the 'life' of our product, how it would get into the users hands and how it would be used throughout the day and other possible design inclusions or features we may see relevant along the way.
Parklife;
Sterosonic;
Soundwave;
Big Day Out;
Falls Festival;
A number of the festivals use connection and relation with nature in their logos and advertising posters, this is possibly related to the fact that these festivals are held in areas as such, like Falls Festival is held out the back of Lorne, Victoria in bushland. Splendour in the Grass is held in the fields of Woodford and Byron.
These potential environments and elements they have to offer may need to be considered late on when designing our chosen product.
Through my brief research looking into the context of our product I thought of a number of inclusions we could incorporate for our product;
Considerations we already have;
locating friends at the festival
finding friends that are dancing
Considerations I looked at;
locating friends on the way to the festival - ensuring everyone arrives together and enters the venue together
providing information or news - weather? bands? (unlikely due to the restriction of not being able to include interactive screens on the product)
When I meet with the group again I will bring forward these thoughts and hopefully we will start getting somewhere with the design of the product.
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Today was a productive day as we really began to understand the products purpose and offerings for the user. We narrowed down its features and functionality to;
Expressing a dancing individual through colour variation of the LEDs
Expressing a static individual through colour variation of the LEDs
Expressing directional location of an individual
Expressing the distance of an invdividual through changing the intensity of the LEDs relating to proximity
Another output consideration was vibration, but that was quickly scrapped due to the nature of the environment (loud music = vibrations) so it would be too confusing for a user to gauge whether the device was communicating with them or whether it was just their surroundings.
From here we started to mock up some concepts for shape and form as well as display ideas. Yasu came around just as we started to conceptually design our intentions and luckily he did because he pointed out a number of factors that we overlooked. One of the issues he picked up on was the use of flashing LEDs to translate proximity, stating (obvious now you think of it) that it would be difficult to gauge the communication of the device and the LED intensity in an outdoor setting.
Yasu didnt only point out our flaws, he also approved some of the other design considerations we had as a group, like the use of a docking station in which the individuals would allign or sync their devices to form their group. He explained that the technology behind this process would be to assign each device a unique ID code related to that group, so whether it was 3 devices or 50 devices in a group, the technology could support our design intention. YAY!!!
After we cleared those things up we decided to fix the issues he pointed out, so back to the drawing board it was (even though we didnt really get a chance pre Yasu's arrival haha). We looked at coming up with alternative ways to expressing proximity of another user to an individual.
Below are some images of group discussion conceptual workings and Hannahs and Steves individual ideas;
This first image shows the groups decision of having proximity expressed through colour variation instead of light intensity. A wise altercation I think.
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| Group influenced consideration of proximity display for location on the device |
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| Hannahs conceptual shape considerations for the wristband |
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| Group in a messy pile working hard to develop our concept - Good job team! |
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| Steves conceptual design for the display and what it is it would be communicating |
below is an image drawn by Hannah as the group openly discussed; how the user obtains our product, how they might interact with it, what they do when they dont want it or have no use for it anymore and the potential different scenarios of use.
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| Hannahs lovely scribing abilities |
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