As you go through your day, make note of things that annoy you or cause you extra effort, time, money, or discomfort. In the language of this course, find some gaps in your user experience. Identify at least 10 of these gaps.
Select a gap that will form the basis of your class project. Your gap (course project) must meet these criteria:
Select a gap that will form the basis of your class project. Your gap (course project) must meet these criteria:
- You personally experience the gap (i.e., you want to solve the design problem).
- You have access to at least five people who also experience the gap, or a closely related gap. This access is ideally face-to-face, not solely via the internet.
- You can imagine creating some kind of design and prototype of an artifact that would address this gap within the next 8 weeks. In other words, the challenge is not so complex that you cannot imagine addressing it in this course.
- You can imagine the gap being addressed by an artifact in a domain that interests you personally (e.g., physical product, architecture, apparel, graphics, web design, furniture).
Finding my gap
- A better way to organize my wardrobe.
- I always end up with tooth paste in my hand while brushing my teeth.
- I need a website to address all my proyects.
- A better way to manage my duvet cover (*)
- I have problems knowing how much liquid there is left in a brick
- The mirror gets steamed up everytime I get a shower
- Lately, I have too many unpaired socks
- My drape always gets caught when the window is open and is very draughty
- It annoys me having to look up the expiration date product by product at the market
- Some kind of alert thar reminds you that the commercials have finished
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