A little update on my use of scenarios to design for specific situations. I noticed that because my scenarios go through a full journey of a person planning their trip, using some mode of transport or GPS and then having to find the location by foot, it opens me up to designing different interactions like waiting on a bus or knowing which bus is the right one, which stop to get off, while my initial research was mostly based on finding ways to detect obstacles and/ or to avoid obstacles. By going back to the scenarios I've found that my head has been back and forth between several completely different ideas and journeys and it's been making it really hard for me to be able to concentrate and start developing just one (never mind 3 for next Friday). So I think the solution to this is to create a new scenario which is specific to what I want to design for.


I attempted to simplify things for myself in order to clear up my head and started to create a new board where I can put up some clear ideas, to keep them all together, and to have some principles and guidelines for whatever it is I will design. One of the questions that I have is am I designing a product that sees things or is this at a much bigger city scale and is the eyes for my users? Am I detecting obstacles and avoiding them or looking for things and knowing what they are?

After spending a few hours trying to come up with some ideas and researching things already out there, it felt like I was getting nowhere. Everyone who was in studio that day decided to do a quick brainstorming session for everyones projects. It felt like everyone started to hit a wall for some reason.

There was 6 of us in so we got 5 minutes for each project and posted up any ideas that we had. This just gave us something different to do, rested our minds and allowed us to help each other and get ideas from other people. Half an hour later and we had this.


My own project received some funny futuristic ideas as well as things that I've already been thinking about and things that are simple and yet effective. One of my problems is that sometimes I think too hard about what I can design when the answer might be much more simple and is staring right at me. I try to open too many doors for myself and don't know which way to go so it might be best to make everything simpler for myself.


For now I am going back to the drawing board and sketching out all the ideas that I have to put them down on paper and maybe start developing some. I've seemed to hit a wall or else its the activities that I'm doing that aren't suitable to my project that aren't helping me get too far at them moment. Either way, I'm hoping to come across something that will be my eureka moment..

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