The Joy of Elephant

We worked hard for the last 4 days, and we had fun prototyping. Everything went well this week, but the only wish I have is to have a bigger space.

Desmond

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Hashing out IxD

Aska and I had been figuring out how to make sense of the IX Task Flow. It is chaotic! Some kind of logic is emerging, but we are not there yet. We tried hashed out components, functions, and relationship within the system today, but more time is needed to properly figure it out.  The goal is to make it so simple that the Task Flow can speak for itself.

 

Desmond

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“Spandexization” of the Elephant

This was a true accomplishment for sure, figuring out how to cover the curve of the elephant. But we did accomplish it, to a degree. Desmond had to drag me out of Dressew, the fabric store (onesie material everywhere!), where we tried to pick out colors on-brand with our visual criteria.

-Aska

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Prototyping: Greeting Card Dissection

Desmond and I have been working on a series of prototypes for sound, ranging from non-functional look-like ideations to semi-functional greeting card prototype simulations. Our initial efforts looked at others’ associations with buttons – this lead to a new breakthrough; a literal button. In order to create an acts-like prototype, we began dissecting audio-track greeting cards and had a prototyping competition (for dignity, judged by time of completion) to create a function where, opposite to the greeting card mechanism, the button would require a “push” command, rather than a “pull” command. We both produced our own methods, though I am convinced that I, with the lesser knowledge in the realm of gadgetry, am the more victorious candidate. It’s all a matter of opinion, I suppose.

-Aska

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