We’re done!
The final presentations were on wednesday, and it was great. People from the creative industries showed up, experts in the field, teachers, students, our assigners, friends and family… it was a full house!
It was great to see everyone tell about the projects they had been working on the last half a year, and the projects were cool indeed. Gemeente Amsterdam had their working installation, IKEA had laptops set-up with their game and we had iPods dangling from the ceiling, showing our app, and a big screen with our animation. Good job, everyone.
It feels strange to have finished the project, although we’re still going to be here for a week or so, rounding everything up. It’s been a half a year of hard work, inspiring people and a lot of noodles. We would like to thank MediaLAB and everyone who helped us for this great opportunity. Most of all we would like to thank our fellow students for a great half a year, and for the help and tips throughout the project.
WAIT.THINK!
Over the last months we have been working on documenting the process we’re going through. The documents are: Research, Concept, Design, Prototyping and testing and Final. We wanted to make these documents fit together, so here are the covers for the WAIT.THINK! documents.
The covers represent the progress in the project, starting out with a single person waiting by himself. More and more people join him, and communication is started. Finally they all catch the train together. This represents what we want to accomplish. To let people have fun on a platform, to have them communicate, and to have them spend their waiting time in a pleasurable way!
As the FINAL document might give away, we’re almost done with this semester of MediaLAB. Everybody is very welcome to come visit us at the final expo on the 16th!
Yesterday was a good day. Skating at the Jaap Edenbaan and shaking cocktails afterwards. Nice!
Hi everyone,
The prototype phase is upon us!
We’re now translating our designs to paper prototypes and digital prototypes. We’re using these to find out if what we thought of actually works as we thought it would. We’re going to be doing user testing soon to test the functionality of the app. To do this we are going to use this really cool kit made from meccano! The old toys? The new can’t do without the old. We’re using iPods to test our app, and the kit can fit one exactly in the middle. There is a webcam attached to it, aimed at the screen. This allows us to film exactly what a person is doing when using the app. What buttons are being pressed? Is the navigation clear?
It’s great to see our project become more solid and clear every day, and we’re anxious to see what the next few weeks will hold. The other teams are going through the same, and the subject matter of the discussions around the tables is changing. It’s going from: “I really think that adding user generated content here would be better.” to “What pages should have a link to the user generated content page, and how should this page look?”
Until next time!
