Assignment #1.4 Design For You

A platform that extracts your Twitter favorites into an offline reading list. Ability to share with friends.

On a daily basis, a few friends and myself curate Twitter for interesting articles and information. For Tweets that resonate with us, we often favourite them with the intent of reading at a later time. However, to this date we have collectedhundred of curated and unread links. From time to time, we revisit our list overwhemed and continue the cycle of procrastination.

Assignment #1.2 Find the Gap

  • A system to educate and inform people on when their smartphones will run out of battery.
  • A system that prepares an smart itinerary for you based on your meetings and the weather outside. (i.e. bring an umbrella as it will rain at 4pm).
  • An intuitive way to tracking paper money and coins.
  • An intelligent system that prepares an prioritized list of tasks for you based on your calendar and previous learned productivity.
  • An alarm clock that wakes you biometrics and environmental factors.
  • A system to visualize, inform, when you should do your laundry.
  • A platform that extracts your Twitter favorites into an offline reading list.
  • A way to express your civic concerns to politicians to make your city amazing.
  • A way to create travel plans with friends and work towards financial goals together.
  • A way to meet people when you’re a newcomer to a city based on similarities.

OFFLINE READING

My Gap

A platform that extracts your Twitter favorites into an offline reading list.

On a daily basis, a few friends and myself curate Twitter for interesting articles and information. For Tweets that resonate with us, we often favourite them with the intent of reading at a later time. However, to this date we have collectedhundred of curated and unread links. From time to time, we revisit our list overwhemed and continue the cycle of procrastination.

Assignment #1.1 Good Design

Apple’s Macbook Pro is one artifact of the information age. It enables ease-of-use and access to information, inspiration, and communication. The look and feel of the product is pure–preventing distractions and frustrations from its intended use.

Mechanical The attention of detail into the build and materials by the designers can be comprehended through holding the product.

Hardware & Software Core functionalities of the product is unquestionably smooth.

User Experience Attention of detail has been given to the use of this artifact over time. The product has been designed to operate for the full duration of a working day.