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Winter Quarter Prototyping Studio
My second quarter at UW in the HCI+D master's program has kicked off and is now in full swing. This quarter our studio class will be focused on prototyping. We will be exploring everything from 2-D to...
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Exercise 1 - Paper Prototyping
This week, in teams of three, we were tasked with designing and testing a tablet application for ordering coffee at the MHCID Studio cafe. The app had to support the following:multiple drinks options...
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GeoJournal Paper Prototype
Design challenge:Design and test a product concept that involves synchronization of data between a smart watch and smart phone. You can review assignment details here.Concept:The GeoJournal is an app I...
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Exercise 2 - 3D Model Prototyping
This week we explored 3D model prototyping through redesigning the ecoATM, a kiosk used for recycling old electronic devices for cash. We were shown some examples of low fidelity cardboard, foam core,...
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Immersion Blender Model Prototype
Design Challenge:This week's design challenge was to design and evaluate 3-D lo-fi prototypes to demonstrate how OXO might apply their core competency in new ways. The goal of the exercise was to help...
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GeoJournal Video Prototype
Unlike other weeks in the course, this last week we didn't have an in-class group exercise. Instead, we spent our class time learning about the composition, production, and post production process for...
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3D Gesture Interaction for TV: A Wizard of Oz Behavioral Prototype
Design Challenge:The challenge for this assignment was to build and test a behavioral prototype for a gestural user interface for a TV system. They system had to allow for basic video function controls...
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dub Site Redesign: Website Prototype
Design Challenge:The design challenge for this week was to analyze, redesign, and develop a wireframe prototype for a new dub website that includes the following information or content:Announcements:...
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Tweak the Tweet: Mobile Prototype
Design Challenge:This week our design challenge involved developing a medium to high fidelity prototype of a mobile application for an existing design spec for an application called a Tweak the Tweet...
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Exercise 7 - Physical Computing: Electronics Prototyping with Arduino
We are now into the seventh week of the quarter and continuing to explore new prototyping techniques. This week, it's all about getting our hands dirty with Arduino, an open-source electronics...
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Pedestrian Crosswalk Button: Electronic Prototype
Design Challenge:For this week’s assignment we had the chance to explore different aspects of physical computing and visualization using Arduino and Processing. Because there was such limited time for...
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Egg Cup & Soldiers Holder: Physical Prototyping with Rhino & Makerbot
Design Challenge:For our final prototype exploration, we had the opportunity to design whatever we wanted (within reason, of course) using Rhino to model and MakerBot to print a 3D object that used all...
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Sous Chef App - Prototyping for Research
Design Challenge:For our final prototyping assignment of the quarter, we were asked to use at least two prototyping techniques to find the answer to research questions for a project of your choice. The...
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