Team Awesome; Kyle, Christina and Claudia Group Design Interface

For the second project we were given two weeks to come up with an interface problem, identify it, think of a solution, and design a new interface.

Our group decided on the MetroTransit’s schedule at bus stops.

The first step was to do research on our topic. We all took the weekend to go out and gather information about bus riding, how bus stops showed bus times and what buses came by, and also to get photographic evidence. We came together that following Tuesday and shared our information and started right away into our task flows and wire frames. We presented what we had to the class, got critiqued, and got back together to make better wire frames and task flows.

 

Coming up with a task flow was the most challenging part of this project. I (Claudia) being the experienced bus rider could think of how it was to ride a bus and how one goes about figuring out bus schedules.

Current Task Flow

Changes to Task Flow

The idea we came up for an interface besides a piece of paper to see bus schedule was something that resembles a Mac product. Very clean, very designery, very simple and easy to use. Our wireframes were for something that was a touch screen and would be a stand. After meeting up over the weekend and working together for the essiential design we had another presentation just to show our progress thus far.

After presenting what we had we went more seriously into the design and finalized everything. Our final product turned out looking very sleek, very simple, and user friendly.

Thursday February 24th 2011

We started off class by helping Jesse get on the server and also going over the first assignment. There were good points mostly and some bad points but over all we did a briliant job at showing our understanding of usability. Go Team! 😀

After we talked about the first assignment we got on the topic of our second assignment which was to choose an interface and how to design it better. Some, but not all of the ideas we came up with were;

-ATM machines

gas pumps

-Grocery self-check outs

-Key Fobs

-Gas Station coffee makers

Automattic car washes

and so on and so forth

After we brain stormed as a class we were put into teams of three and set off to come up with what we were going to re-design. In the group of three there is a Project Leader, an Information Architect, and a Design Lead.

We then discussed the Bare Honey Update. We all helped out with the “b” problem. It was either to serious or hard to tell that it was a “b”. Some of us came up to the board and doodled our ideas of what could help solve the problem.

After that we watched a video about a company called IDEO

We wrapped class up by getting back in our groups for a little more discussion how to re-design the interfaces we choose.

Claudia Poole

Age: 20

Name Origin: My real name is Chole, named after coal, since it’s used to heat up  metal for sculpting molds. My mom named both me and my twin after art elements that relate to my dads profession. I just don’t like it, so I go by Claudia.

Home town/current location: North Minneapolis

Online activities: Facebook, youtube,  and tumblr

Offline activities: Biking, cooking, sleeping

Bio: Grew up with art, loved art, wanted to do art for a living. My father John Poole does sculpture, mother Nancy Poole dabbles in the arts but has a different profession. Twin sibling Smyth, older sister Cassie, both do non-art related majors. Went to F.A.I.R., liked the media art classes. High schools I attended were Patrick Henry and Main Street School of Preforming Arts. Toured colleges (MCAD, CVA, AI) and fell inlove with CVA. I love designs on shoe boxes, wrapping paper, wall papers, and decorative elements to packages or company identities.

3 Useful items I interacted with today: Chrome Bag (affectionally called Phillip), bus card, and my planner.