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PRACTICAL 3

Members:

Design Brief: Glance

Document typed and written by BJCJ in conjunction with AK and GK.

Step 1: Point of View

Brainstorming High-End Design Need

Knowing where others are (consumers and employees) so that you can be in the right place at the right time.

In order to maintain scheduled work, being ever conscious as to the whereabouts and actions of one’s associates.

In an attempt to reduce inefficiencies in scheduling, an individual must be constantly aware of the whereabouts, requirements and intentions of the individual’s associated entities.

conscious of, mindful of, informed about, acquainted with, familiar with, alive to, alert to; informal clued in to, wise to, in the know about, hip to; formal cognizant of;

Realtime

Associates

Perform jobs simultaneously

Chosen Topic: Tracking people’s location and intentions to maintain efficiency.

Step 2 - Storyboarding:

BJ’s Storyboard

G’s Storyboard

A’s

Step 3 - Paper Prototype:

Minutes of meeting:

Attending Members - G K, BJCJ, AK

Place: Library

Time: 5:45pm

Met at 5:45pm

Looked at G’s storyboard

Looked at BJ’s storyboard

Looked at As storyboard

Discussed the strengths and weaknesses of each storyboard

G’s Storyboard

Strengths	Weaknesses
Detailed	Not sure how dashboard is used exactly
Need identifiable	Lots of writing
Characters are obvious - Taxi driver and client
Captions help with context

Bj’s Storyboard

Strengths	Weaknesses
Needs identifiable	Not sure on how to design interface
Characters are obvious - lifeguards	Not sure on dashboard itself
Shows needs being solved	Story a little disjointed

A’s Storyboard

Strengths	Weaknesses
Clearly shows needs	Not sure on characters
Shows outcomes at the end of the day	Lots of writing, a little too detailed
Interesting storyline
Detailed

After much discussion decided on choosing G’s storyboard as the needs were simple and obvious, and the storyboard showed this clearly.

The need was identified as -

Client needs a taxi

Taxi needs to know exactly when the client is ready and where

Taxi tracks client until they pick them up, allows for them to do other jobs if the client is busy doing something else. Also allows for the client to tell the taxi if they don’t need it anymore, or if they will be late/busy.

Discussed meeting tomorrow, agreed upon having the paper prototype completed by 5pm Thursday, 17th March in the library.

Discussed different styles of interfaces and applications. Talked about how to do a paper prototype. Sent email to everyone with photos of storyboards and with the information in this document so far and time and place of meeting tomorrow.

Meeting finished at 6:40pm

Meeting Thursday 17th March 2010

Time: 5pm

Present: All members

A had unfortunately not been able to complete his prototype due to other commitments, but had some ideas and pictures with ideas to show. B had completed his client part of his project and G had completed his paper prototype. All members went through their paper prototypes.

Members discussed when they would be meeting next, however due to time commitments they couldn’t meet at all until the day of the presentation.

Things that need to be completed at the next meeting include:

· Taking video or photos of the paper prototypes

· Formatting this document

· Ensuring that all points have been covered

· A brief analysis of each paper prototype and which one we all think will work the best

· Finalise presentation for Monday

Discussion around the presentation:

It was agreed that each member would take about 20-30 seconds to show their prototype and another 20-30 seconds to show their storyboards. Any remaining time would be used to briefly introduce the brief, and to finish at the end.

Members agreed to do a quick run through of their presentation 15 minutes before class.

Finished at 6pm

Paper Prototype - AK

Slide 1 - Dashboard	Slide 2 - Input	Slide 3 - Location check
Slide 4 - Sending Request	Slide 5 - Date and Time for Pickup	Slide 6 - Cannot book Taxi more than 1 week in advance

Slide 7 - My Bookings, track your booking

Slide 8 - My bookings, map

Slide 9 - Edit booking

Slide 10 - Contact Driver

Slide 11 - Taxi Arrived

Paper Prototype - BJCJ

Slide 1 - Home Screen

Slide 2 - Ordering a Taxi

Slide 3 - Update screen

Slide 4 - Settin gs screen, can change default language, default cars, skins for the application etc...

Slide 5 - Taxi has arrived, allows the user to contact the taxi, ask where it is, refuse taking the taxi or to tell the taxi to wait

Paper Prototype - GK

Slide 1 - Dashboard	Slide 2 - Booking	Slide 3 - Details
Slide 4 - Processing Request	Slide 5 - Booking confirmed	Slide 6 - Canceling a booking

Slide 7 - Cancellation Confirmed

Slide 8 - Get Update

Slide 9 - Map of route

Reflection:

How was your decision process?

The decision process worked quite well, with a decision as to what the high-end design need was, being made within about an hour of the practical being issued. This was done through brainstorming and discussion, along with the use of Thesauruses and Google.

In regards to the decision about the story board was made after weighing up the strengths and weaknesses of each storyboard, and taking into account which would be the easiest and quickest to paper prototype.

What did you end up going with?

We ended up going with the Taxi system.

What is something you learned?

Something that we learned is that it is difficult to set goals and achieve them in short spaces of time, especially when we all do things differently. Also, that picking the easiest idea, although not always being the most fun or interesting, is often the best way to achieve something if time is a major factor.

What was most valuable?

The most valuable thing in this project was learning about paper prototyping, especially after reading the article by Snyder as it offered some really good and creative ideas for prototyping.