Week 5 This week was jam packed with fabricating, designing, interviews, meetings, and playtesting. Fabrication Nidhi and Marissa took the lead on fabricating our gold spike, which we plan to have done by the end of Week 5. This will be a small prototype that has five working cubbies that Read more…
Week 4 We had playtesting at the end of Week 3 that lead us to make a few very helpful design decisions. We decided to move forward with boxes containing passive RFIDs that we put into a grid/shelf system that reacts. Although, we still feel very strongly about the original Read more…
Week 3 At the end of last week, we realized that power may be a huge issue in our original idea. So we decided to sit-down and brainstorm as a team together some new concepts that still encompass the vision of our experience. We discussed how our ideal user flow Read more…
Week 2 We kicked off this week getting our prototyping plan off the ground. We split up responsibilities: Wei + Marissa worked on logo/branding assets for our team Nidhi did research on the hardware for our sensory cubes Daryl + Marissa worked on fabrication of cubes Emily worked on scheduling Read more…
Week 1 Last spring, we all took Experience Design, a course offered by the ETC together. We discovered that we were all interested in designing for location-based experiences. However, we wanted to learn more about the fabrication process from designing to implementing an installation. While most projects and courses at Read more…