Notes from Interview w/ Dylan Vitone 9/21

Our final interview at this stage of our design process was with Dylan Vitone, father…

Bedtime routine + Kids, interviews with fathers, Joseph Lyons and Peter Scupelli

An overview of interviews with Peter Scupelli and Joseph Lyons

Joseph has a son aged 4 and a 3 year old daughter. When asked about their transition from play to the…

Refining Design Concepts w/ Insights + Principles

Following our intensive brainstorming session, we took a step back to ask ourselves how our many ideas might fit with the insights we’d culled from initial research. While we felt good about the general direction, we thought more clearly…

9/2 “Technology” for Bedtime Routines

Brainstorming Session 9/2

Beyond simply including parents in their child’s bedtime routine, we began to think about how technology might help both parents and their children to build healthy routines. Could a tool send…

Notes from Interview w/ John Zimmerman 9/8

As a way to begin our research, we familiarized ourselves with John Zimmerman’s work on the Reverse Alarm Clock, a tool designed to make the parents feel like better parents — by providing a moment for parenting (a bedtime ritual of setting the clock) as…

Design for parenting, with John Zimmerman

Insights from a discussion with John on the ‘Reverse alarm clock’ and more….

Notes from Interview w/ Joe Lyons and Peter Scupelli 9/16

With three further refined storyboards in hand (digital artboard, interactive path, interactive object), we conducted another set of interviews, testing for usability, usefulness, and comfort level with our three concepts.

9/1 What is healthy family sleep?

Myriad solutions exist to help people sleep better. From medication to breathing devices, self help books to apps, hypnosis to psychological counseling — these solutions serve a range of functions from enhancing quality of sleep to treating medical conditions to…

Notes from Interview w/ Bruce Hannington 9/9

As a continuation of our research, we interviewed Bruce Hannington (father of three) about his family’s bedtime routine, and the challenges he’s faced. Bruce has two daughters (8 and 6) and a son (4), and is in charge of baths and bedtime for his…