Pre-Interview Brainstorming — 11/6

Interview locations

Final Presentation

Prototyping & Storyboarding

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EXPERIENCE PROTOTYPING

To gain first-hand appreciation of how users might experience our product, we conducted an experience prototyping session with a couple of people. Since the core of our product is closely…

Design update v.1

I did some redesign after our final presentation.
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Consolidating Research

A lot of the conversations around Smart Cities is the notion of productivity. However, we wanted to see whether similar…

Design update v.2

Screen Designs

View Tokens

Tokens are experiences that people shared. They can be viewed on a mobile phone, or via panoramic view of any viewfinder installed throughout the city.

Defining the problem and opportunity spaces — 11/4

FIELD RESEARCH II — 11/7

We split our Saturday between three locations — North Side, Lawrenceville and Bakery Square. Our aim was to speak to as many people from different walks of life, and to see what their lived experience of Pittsburgh was like. To gain a more intimate understanding of their perspective…

Streamlining Ideas

1. Virtual Pet
   If you don’t have the time or bandwidth to explore the city on your own, your virtual pet can do it on your behalf and gather information
2. Wormhole
   Using a virtual projection and other sensors such as sound, we create an immersive experience to invoke a sense…

Streamlined Ideas II

Field Research I

I was still unsure of the direction of this project so I used this opportunity to discover needs of people living in Pittsburgh.

For this field research, I asked interviewees questions such as -
1. What do you like/dislike about Pittsburgh?
2. How would you compare…