redesigning an alarm clock
Abstract
Aesthetics of Interaction was a course I did to help me pay more attention to the details when it came to finishing a product. I learnt this through application with a project focused on creating a wake-up experience. This was mostly individual, and I started out by redesigning an alarm clock I considered badly designed.
My team and I were also tasked with explaining a paper on affordances, a topic we then explored with the creation of the VerseJumper. After presenting a preliminary wake-up experience design and going through multiple iterations to create the final VerseJumper, we wrote individual pictorial papers on what we had learnt from the course, with theory and argumentation on exactly where the course content helped us develop as designers.
Project members: Ezra de Graaf, Jan Jenniskens, Helena Giralt, Malaika Abha Shankar, Ting Zhou
Project duration: February 2023 - April 2023
Project coach: Stephan Wensveen
Project tutor: Andra Tanasa
My contribution
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Providing feedback on peers' alarm clock redesigns
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Reading papers on affordances and contributing to group discussions regarding points such as the possible implementation of hidden affordances
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Creating presentations for the showcasing of the preliminary VerseJumper as well as helping create prototypes
Skills gained and enhanced
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Writing academically for a pictorial papers based on research papers read throughout the course
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Using Adobe InDesign and Photoshop
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Sketching exploded views to communicate ideas
This post focuses on the course Aesthetics of Interaction, which includes the creation of the VerseJumper. Please refer to the VerseJumper post for more detailed information and extensive pictures.
