Here’s a short video I shot and edited in a day to describe the vision behind my design direction currently.
Apologies for both the overly dramatic music and ‘did-it-while-cooking’ AE motion tracking…
Enjoy!
New video. New series?
Finally finished cutting together a new short video about the activities around CIID. This one from the GUI course about four months ago. Time flies indeed!
With the new video out and a bunch more footage sitting on my hard drive from other courses I’ve decided to start a little project. I’ve called it Busy Hands and I hope to make a few more short videos (sticking to around 1 minute is my only brief) highlighting the amazing work from the talented students here in the coming months.
New Service Design Documentary from CIID
“As part of the Interaction Design Programme CIID ran a 4 week service design course in Collaboration with Copenhagen Airport (CPH). The idea was to envision new experiences for the different kinds of people who use the airport.
Visiting faculty from leading service design and innovation companies – Live Work and IDEO – were invited to teach the course.
This film highlights the evolution of the thinking and design processes that took place throughout the course.
Filmed and edited by Eilidh Dickson”
CPHCloud presented to Copenhagen Airport
Just a quick update to say that the Service Design course at CIID has officially drawn to close with the whole class presenting their work over the past month back to the airport. A bit congratulations to everyone involved! It went down really well!
I’ll be updating my work page soon with a more concise overview of the project but I just thought I’d share some of the work from Team CPHCloud (me, Ali Seckin Karayol and Yufan Wei Wang).
To understand a bit better please refer to the project description in my previous post, it should make more sense then!
And finally our video was finished just in time to make it into the presentation. (Premiere rendering overnight turned into a gamble! Thank you experience!)
Again thanks to everyone involved but specifically to the advisors on hand who provided invaluable advise and teaching throughout the 4 weeks of the project. In no particular order Eilidh Dickson, Brian Rink, Rory Hamilton, Are Hovland Nielson, Nina Christoffersen, Julia Frederking and Simona Maschi.
For information about the course check out the CIID website.
Introducing the Awesome Ticket!
We’ve reached a milestone in the development of our concept for the Service Design course at CIID. For now, we call it: Awesome Ticket!
The video was made to communicate our concept direction and some key touch points that we wanted to test as part of the experience prototyping part of the process.
Creativity, engage!
Thought I’d post up a lovely video by fellow CIID classmate Helle Rohde. Shows a bit of a glimpse into the fast paced prototyping that we’ve been doing so much of lately. Enjoy!
Abstraction
As part of our development process on the Tangible User Interface course at CIID we, as a group, decided to video prototype a lot of our concept ideas instead of sketching, as implemented traditional in disciplines such as Industrial Design, because we needed to be able to quickly make design decisions through an iterative storytelling process. This process quickly highlighted many pitfalls including one important, overlooked issue. The balance of abstraction. Below are the three films produced to explain three different concepts, each dealing with a different design opportunity identified in our user research.
I like the videos, and I enjoy their conceptual thinking but one major danger is that the connection with the user is severed here. By abstracting our concepts into primitive shapes and interactions we essentially limited our scope for people to understand the value of the concept to their everyday lives. This is exactly the problem we needed to avoid and was kindly pointed out to us by our advisor during this process, Durrell Bishop.
The main issue with these video prototypes remains that the affordances, specificity of function and attention to the variety of people’s lifestyles & behaviours were greatly overlooked. However, as an exercise in storytelling the films here show an area of learning for me in conveying ideas quickly and efficiently.
What if a fruit bowl could follow you?
As part of our idea development phase on the Tangible User Interface module at CIID it became increasingly necessary to express our concepts on a medium that could talk more about the interaction and response of the ideas we were only capturing on paper. Sketching is great but when your trying to describe the idea of a fruit bowl that follows you around your kitchen, things get a bit more tricky.
Cue The Awesome Fruit Bowl and it’s accomplice, Water vibes!
Thanks to Marco Triverio and Hari Gopalakrishnan for the collaboration.
The Making of OnRoute
The Making of OnRoute is a short movie showing the process of making the animated story OnRoute which was developed in the Video Prototyping Class at CIID in response to a service design project brief.
Me and Alix Gillet-Kirt developed an interesting technique for achieving the effect in the final film which this short flick will hopefully explain. Enjoy!
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