In a project for “rapid design for slow change” we were given very little constraints. We were to design a product or service that resulted in a slow change over time. I wanted to do a project on health, so I teamed up with Joanna who had similar interests. Having no idea where to start [...]
Study Buddy
This short project was to be an exercise in scenario development and presentation. We still needed to design something but it had to be presented in the form of a poster-like scenario. Our objective was to design a social learning tool for children 5-10 years of age. Our final design was to be a game [...]
Fridginator 5000
Our particular topic for this project was hoarding. We started off the project by exploring the space with a bit of secondary research and then a two-hour ethnography session in the home of three IU students. Through our ethnographic study and secondary research we found that food hoarding was a big issue. Our team felt [...]
Undergrad Capstone Project
For my undergraduate capstone project we created tidylandlord.com. This site was created as a free tool for small-time landlords to manage their properties. (Site is currently Offline) Our team learned a lot about MySQL databases and PHP with this project. We started this project with interviews with a small landlord in the Bloomington area and [...]
Tibiafrags.com & Tibiatome.com
I played the MMORPG Tibia for several years. Within this time I found that for thousands of players including myself who felt that PvP (Player vs. Player) combat was the most thrilling part of the game. The death penalty within Tibia is steep, you lose a percentage of experience, skills and items every time you [...]
Grief Cultural Probe
We would use this research method to study the interaction between artifacts and users. The constraint was grief, so we wanted the artifacts in our cultural probe to stimulate memories of loss and pain. We chose a target group which would use our probe, to learn about their particular experience with grief. Because our target group included [...]
Checked-In Application
Our team found that an environment to accentuate differences collaboratively and creatively within the corporate realm improves team performance. Yet, it is hard to get to know team members and run a regular meeting in non-collocated team environments. We propose a tool “Checked-In”, to help facilitate connections between people and to improve collaboration. Checked-In is a [...]
Re-designing the Amazon rating system
The Amazon rating system redesign project was very hands on and fun. The Amazon rating system is widely known and copied throughout the internet as it is a strong and easily understood concept. One important constraint was that we were re-designing the Amazon mobile application, and the rating system within. We began our project with [...]
Re-designing the thermostat
Our first project was to re-design a thermostat. The problem is that when people come in from a very hot or cold day, they crank their thermostat way up or down thinking it will get colder or warmer faster. Of course this is not the case, heating and cooling systems crank out air at a [...]