Inside Stanford Design Garage week 08 & 09 — a final stretch before spring break
Focus:
Encouraging people to curate and share emotionally meaningful experience (doesn’t have to be grand) that can be consumed asynchronously across multiple audience.
Problem statement:
Not every experience is sharable on social media
Design Opportunity Space:
How might we make it safe and engaging for people to share small windows into their worlds?
A sneak peek of our Future Prototypes:
Part 1 : Experience curator UI
Part 2: Experience consumer UI
Our Process
Developing our user-testing screener:
by imaging what an engaged user looks like to us..
Facts
have free time — no kids
Behaviors
curates life experience (decorate, cook, etc.)
Seeks out wellness ( someone who treats themselves well)
Documents their life ( journals, blogs, Instagram, Snapchat)
Needs and Goals
Need a deeper more authentic way to express their worlds that goes beyond the performative nature of the current status quo of social media.
Problems
They are self-proclaimed burn out from the performative nature of the social media.
Curated Moments Prototype Field Guide
Where: Four Barrel Coffee shop and Love Story Yoga (both are on Valencia st in SF)
Part1: Ask the user to recollect their recent “meaningful” experience
Part2: Ask them to recreate those moments to other people
Part3: Screening questions & follow-ups
Below are some of the experiences we were able to collect
Insight:
Although it was easy for the users we encountered to share their meaningful experiences, the average people still find it challenging to think of their own experience as “interesting” enough to share with other people.
Need:
to share a window into their worlds, but afraid that these people will judge them for it.
How might we make it safe and entertaining for people to share parts of their daily lives that are personally meaningful to them, but might not be considered as interesting enough or valuable to share with other people, but are actually connection points for empathy?
