Family Sleep (Team Aasma)

Prototyping for Augmented Reality

How do you prototype when designing for augmented reality (AR)? This was an important question our team grappled with while ideating solutions to tackle sleep problems in families. We had been working on user research and studying the problem space of family sleep for a…

ARrange: Process Documentation

Carnegie Mellon MDes/MPS IxD Studio: Project 1

Visual Design & UI

arrange

Working closely with Irene, we developed the user interface over the course of a week. Discussing and fine tuning some of the interactions. While this is something we hope to fine tune in future iterations, the version we have developed showcases the mobile…

10.12 Video Storyboard, Stills

After we came up with the scenarios on Monday, I took still photographs to create a storyboard of what they might look like in a video. Using this to guide us when we make our final video could help us choose camera angles that make the most sense for the editing we’d like…

10.10 Nailing Down Scenarios

After talking to Austin during class, we worked more on nailing down scenarios that were both relevant to our design brief and killer apps for our system. We did some bodystorming around the studio to get an idea of what interactions would be intuitive and meaningful.

10.05 Scenario Refinement, UI Flow Development

In our seminar class, we talked about values in design and what implications our envisioned ecosystem might have. We talked about privacy issues–who would be able to see and alter the information? Where is it stored? How many times would you have…

10.03 Scenario Brainstorming

We brainstormed scenes for a concept video that would both capture the technology concept and how it’s relevant to family health and sleep. The format is inspired by MIT Media Lab’s Reality Editor concept video.

10.02 Early Video Prototypes

We used video prototypes (edited in AfterEffects and Premiere) to explore some of our early ideas of how physical interactions might reveal different pieces of data in augmented reality.

09.25–09.28 Conceptualizing

Between our design territory presentation and our prototypes, we explored a lot of ideas around the three technologies we wanted to use to merge the digital and physical worlds (tangibles, IoT, and augmented reality).

09.21 Design Territory Presentation

Designers from Philips’ locations in both Eindhoven and Pittsburgh came to our class to speak to us about some of their work and to hear about some of ours. Our team gave a presentation about our research and possible project space. We spoke about our very first…

09.19 Problem Space Definition

To wrap up our research synthesis and prepare for our design territory presentation to Philips on Wednesday, we worked on rewriting some of our “how might we” questions and design principles to focus more specifically on our audience of families with sleep disorders.

09.11 Journey Mapping

We spent most of today’s meeting trying to dig deeper into the problem space. We jumped to creating scenarios and storyboards quickly to keep up with our course timeline. However, understanding more about the problem space and being able to communicate what we’ve learned (both visually and…

09.07 “How Might We” Questions and Design Principles

Our group spent some time today going over the work we brought for the meeting (scenarios and visualizations of the problem space). We discussed ways to approach and frame the problem to make it a little more digestible. We decided last…

09.07 Scenarios

To begin ideation, we narrowed down to a more specific case within family sleep solutions: families with children who are sick. On our own, we came up with a few ideas of how our system could support these families. I drew scenario storyboards with a few written comments of goals or principles…