Indypendee » Uncategorized http://indypendee.com Experience Designer (Interaction + Visual) Wed, 04 Apr 2012 15:37:56 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.2 The Sneha Project http://indypendee.com/sneha/ http://indypendee.com/sneha/#comments Thu, 22 Oct 2009 14:57:12 +0000 admin http://indypendee.com/?p=1157
As a donor to non-profit organizations, how can I see that my donation is being spent and used effectively to benefit the disabled? The Sneha Project proposes an integrated cell phone and website experience which allows donors who make contributions to non-profit organizations to track their donations. Along with seeing how their contributions have positively impacted other people’s lives, non-profit organizations have the ability to provide some transparency and highlight areas of need that still need contribution from donors. This level of transparency will allow donors to make their donation more specific and potentially encourage further contributions. This project was originally created as an entry for the USID Forum Nokia Design Challenge 2009.

PROJECT MEDIA STRATEGY: DEFINING HOW THE EXPERIENCE WORKS

Overview Of Concept

I want to make a donation:
A person(s) decides to donate to one or multiple non-profits. Once a contribution has been made, they are automatically logged in as a donor and an online account is set up for them. Information regarding how their donation was spent and/or used is entered into this account for the donor to access.
 I want to track my donation:
The account created for the donor to track their donation can be accessed via cell phone application and website. Once online in their account, the donor can see how their money is being spent as well as discover “donation opportunities” which are emerging areas of need within the organization that need contribution.

Managing And Donating To Multiple Recipients

CASE STUDY: SNEHA

Sneha is an NGO based in rural India that takes in kids with disabilities, orphans who lost their parents to AIDS, and many others in need. Their goal is to house, feed, educate, and help train their residents in a particular craft which will empower them to be independent and find employment once they leave. I chose Sneha as the subject for the case study because I truly believe in this organization and the good they are doing for the Indian community.

View By Category

View By Children Who’ve Received Contributions

A BRIEF LOOK AT MY PROCESS
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The Concert Narratives project explores an integrated media ecosystem which allows people to document their experiences at concerts, encode it onto a barcode which they can customize with their own or pre-made visuals, and post it on a “narrative wall” to share with other people who attend concerts at that particular venue. In order to view these narratives, the user would have to activate an augmented reality app on their iPhone and “reveal” the narratives. The narrative wall itself, as time goes on, would become a historical record of the concerts that have taken place at that particular venue through the perspectives of its patrons.

The “Narrative Wall” Of Encoded Experiences

As more and more people put up their encoded experiences in the form of printed and decorated semacode onto a wall, the end result is, quite literally, a wall of narrative. Specifically, the narratives of people and a documentation of the concerts played at that specific venue seen through its patrons. Thus, the phone acts as a device to reveal these narratives and in turn, creates for the user, a unique and innovative way of experiencing other people’s memories juxtaposed in the location they happened. The augmented reality phone app allows the user to navigate through the experiences of other people.

THE AUGMENTED REALITY PHONE APP

Augmented Reality Phone App Screenshots

THE KIOSK EXPERIENCE

The Kiosk Screenshots

The primary experience of the kiosk is to provide the user with the ability to choose and upload the pictures or movies they want to share, the toolset to customize and decorate the print out upon which the semacode containing a link to their content is on, and print out that semacode. This process is all contained within the kiosk itself. Users are charged a small fee to create these print outs. The money goes to the maintenance of the kiosk as well as a charity previously chosen by the musician performing that night. There is a limit of how much content can be encoded per semacode. Users can either encode 6 images or one movie.

The Kiosk Workflow

A BRIEF LOOK AT MY PROCESS
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The City Browser focuses its browsing experience on a specific city, empowering the user to explore the nooks and crannies of a single city, from its geography to its culture. Here, they can view customized content uploaded by other users, digitally “enter” and explore the interior space of various locations, save their favorite locations to a list, and have their browsing experience documented by an evolving and organic interactive map. The Ciy Browser links to social media, Facebook and Twitter, giving updates of the actions users take within the city browser space, thus retelling the narrative of the user’s journey through the digital city.

INTERACTING WITH A CITY USING THE CITY BROWSER

Saving Favorite Locations And Accessing User Created Content

In the header bar, there are three buttons with large icons that represent viewing user created content (the pencil icon), viewing saved favorite locations (the star icon), and viewing the personal map (the connects spheres icon). These buttons act as toggle buttons, revealing and hiding this content. Saving favorites can be accomplished in two ways. The user can minesweep over a location and reveal its
 quick info balloon and expose the option to save that location or the user can digitally enter the location and save it from there. When the user clicks the user created content button “on”, the sidebar gives the user drawing and uploading tools to create their own content from tagging certain places with photos to drawing content like their favorite jogging path.

Defining The Narrative Of The User’s Browsing Experience Through The Personal Map

As the user browses through the city and digitally enters locations, those interactions are recorded, resulting in an interactive map. The pegs mark where the user has gone to. The different colors are indicative of a color spectrum that represents frequency of visits combined with amount of content contributed to each location. The content contributed can be a response to a discussion forum post, the creation of a new discussion forum post, the uploading and sharing of an image, etc. Across time, the map will change and organically develop, telling a narrative of the user’s personal interests.

Entering The Various Locations/Spaces Of A City

Half the experience of the City Browser revolves around the map view, outside of a specific location. The second half is the action of “entering” a physical space without having to actually be there. Each location has it’s own website template, available to them from an inventory of themes for their own customization although they all share some common functionality. Each location’s website will still have the header bar with search field and buttons giving the user the ability to log out, access their account settings, save the location as a favorite, and exit the location. The second common functionality is to “tour” the space. This gives the user the ability to look around the space as though they were physically there, using the scroller and magnifier tools in the map view to move around the space.

Exploring The Interior Spaces Of The City

Users can “tour” the interior spaces of a city using the City Browser. The primary experience should translate to the user being able to view the physical space without being there. The magnifier and scrolling tools available in the map view are available for this functionality.

A BRIEF LOOK AT MY PROCESS

Establishing User Scenarios

Highlighting Key Flows Across The Experience

Creating Wireframes Based On User Scenarios And Key Flows
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