So the day has finally arrived! Final concept presentations of DNB601 Industrial Design 6...
Once again we had the special guests of staff from the LifeTec to sit in on the presentations and offer their opinions regarding our designs and our considerations of Universal Design and designing for the limited user.
Our group presented 11th of the list, and although it took sometime to come around, I feel our presentation was prepared, informative and concise. The feedback from the tutors was interesting and helped shed some light on what we achieved and how it was interpreted.
Leo was impressed that although we werent able to get the software working precicely as we wanted it too, that we still understood what it was we were intending to deliver and convey, and that the technological features of the design had the potential to be refined and made possible with the help of professionals in the appropriate field of coding and software programming.
Yasu pointed our a minor issue regarding the network on which our concept would work off, this network we understood would be one for GSP tracking, and in later design and development would be implemented into the Syncing Hubs and potentially run on its own frequency based network. Although the details werent there regarding this hiccup it was still easy to understand the designs intentions and see the progression the product could take with more time and further development and research.
The LifeTec staff member present noted that she thought the height of the hub wouldn't allow someone in a wheelchair to sync the wristband like others would be able to, but we assured her that not only were limited users considered when designing the height of the syncing hub, but that by allowing the hub to be used by the 1st percentile female meant that individuals in a wheelchair could still access the facility. But alternatively, the other method of syncing individuals into a group (the individual method) could account for this potential problem, still making the product useable for the limited user. She also expressed how she liked the design and the issue it aimed to solve as she believed the problem was a good one to try and fix and that she had experienced the exact pr problems stated in context herself.
Marianella pointed out some valuable observations of how she understood the need for the project, and the interactions it provided and how they were relevant and necessary. She also stated how initially with the mention of wristband she was a bit skeptical as to its purpose due to the fact of how many people seem to use a wristband within this project to try and resolve their issue and produce their concept. She stated that the way we utilized the wristband made it an necessary and successful inclusion to the overall concept. Steve mentioned how we chose the wristband as a result of design exploration and consideration and how we didnt try to fit our design and concept around the need to have a wristband. This point again reinforced Marianella's thoughts and I think she took this on board and appreciated the comments intentions.
Unfortunately Carolyn left before we could recieve any verbal feedback from her, it would have been good to know her thoughts on our end result as she had her input in our conceptual designs and considerations earlier in the design phase.
Overall the presentations were interesting to see what end designs and concepts each group ended up with. There were some great incorporations of the arudino and some wonderful models produced by the groups.
Below are some images taken of a few of the presentations from todays class;
Today was a good experience and definately provided more insight into how interactive design can be interpreted and applied to various products, contexts and users. And it definately shows how much more as Industrial Design students there is to learn about the functionality of interactive technology and what it can do for the design world.
Interaction design is a very interesting topic within the world of design and this subject has definately ignited an interest into the possibilities and potential it has to offer, safe to say some extra external research and product searching might be in stall this summer holidays.
Needless to say my group members were a joy to work with, their passiona commitment and various skill sets brought collaboration alive and made our product and final presentation possible.
So thank-you Steve, Joey and Hannah, and thank-you Marianella, Leo and Yasu. To everyone else, as always its been a pleasure sharing semester antics with you all and its safe to say this has been fun semester and I look forward to the potential 4th year has.
This concludes the DEB601 Industrial Design Blog entries.
Kindest Regards,
Charlie Knowles
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