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12.14 GATHR — Discover, Participate, Connect

12.03 Platform Infrastructure & More

We are currently working on wireframes for the GATHR platform. In the following days, we will…

11.28: System Development

We shared our new concept direction with Austin, he provided valuable feedback, particularly surround our augmented reality(AR) component. He suggested that we pay close attention to when we are utilizing AR, urging us consider the moment in which we switch from AR to the flat user…

11.27 Prototyping & Finalizing Our Concept

Our meeting of the day was split into two parts. First, we tested some hypotheses we had about intervening at bus stops to promote for stranger-stranger interactions. Following our prototyping session, we synthesized our takeaways and opted for another…

11.16 Contextualizing Concepts

Since the team decides to pursue concepts that happen around bus stops, we decided to spend sometime to actually observe people’s behaviors around bus stops.

Before we headed out, we listed down some potential behaviors people might engage in at the…

11.11/11.13: Furthering Our Concepts

11.08: Initial Concept Development

During this week, we presented our initial design directions that drove our conceptualization process. We also presented our findings from our initial exploratory research phase to the class. Below is a summary of our process leading up to concept development.

11.09 Interview with Molly W. Steenson

Molly is a professor of School of Design. She previously taught at University of Wisconsin-Madison. She moved in Lawrenceville, Pittsburgh last year with Simon, her husband. He lived in Chicago and now is working in Duolingo. They are newly-wed and moved in…

11.6 — Synthesis Session

After the interviews and the adventures…