Compression carriage
Peak hour on Melbourne’s public transport.
Question 1.4: Design for you
The Question 1.4: Design for you homework for Week 1 of Design: Creation of Artifacts in Society required me to design an artifact that addresses my user experience gap of a solution that supports and encourages an efficient and affordable contactless ticketing system for public transport by creating a visual expression of the design as …
Question 1.3: Visual expression 1 – The basics
The Question 1.3: Visual expression 1 – The basics (V) homework for Week 1 of Design: Creation of Artifacts in Society required me to draw a sketch of a chair. The goal of this assignment was to get me comfortable with the basics of sketching to ensure I can create a quality output of the …
My gap
The Question 1.2: Find the gap homework for Week 1 of Design: Creation of Artifacts in Society required me to identify things that annoyed me or caused me extra effort, time, money or discomfort throughout my day and then list 10 user experience gaps that could potentially be diminished or mitigated by an artifact (product or …
Question 1.2: Find the gap
The homework for Week 1 of Design: Creation of Artifacts in Society required me to identify things that annoyed me or caused me extra effort, time, money or discomfort throughout my day and then list 10 user experience gaps (solutions to actual or perceived user experience issues that could be used as a course project) that …
An Enlightened portal under construction
Question 1.1: Click & Collect
For Week 1’s 1.1 Good design homework for Design: Creation of Artifacts in Society, I was required to consider the artifacts I use regularly and then briefly explain why I love it. I know the Coles Click & Collect service isn’t an artifact and it doesn’t really fit within the assignment brief like the Sipper lid, but it evoked …
Question 1.1: Sipper lid
For Week 1’s 1.1 Good design homework for Design: Creation of Artifacts in Society, I was required to consider the artifacts I use regularly and then briefly explain why I love it. I love the sipper lid on the top of a take away coffee cups as it allows me to safely consume my hot morning coffee …
User flow for the completion of a safe work method statement (SWMS)
This sketch demonstrates the preliminary user flow for a web application/mobile experience that permits the completion and submission of a safe work method statement (SWMS) as part of a vocational training and assessment experience. A SWMS is a site-specific form that must be completed before any high-risk construction work is commenced. Generally, the completion and …
Read more “User flow for the completion of a safe work method statement (SWMS)”
User flow for a practical task capture: Technical report
This sketch demonstrates the preliminary user flow for a web application/mobile experience for a practical task capture, more specifically the completion of a technical report or similar documentation as part of a vocational training and assessment experience. Like the safe work method statement (SWMS) template, this web application/mobile experience seeks to take advantages of the affordances …
Read more “User flow for a practical task capture: Technical report”
Flip Rig: An extremely light-weight and simple rig for a FLIP MinoHD video camera
A project at work required video footage of a series of veterinary surgical procedures to be recorded for inclusion in an online teaching resource. The project did not have resources (DSLR and personnel) to record the series of surgical procedures nor does the relatively small operating theatre permit an additional non-surgical staff member to occupy …
Read more “Flip Rig: An extremely light-weight and simple rig for a FLIP MinoHD video camera”
YouTube’s supernatural background activity
Ingress: Levelling up
Ingress: Establishing first link (Only to be destroyed a short time later)
Ingress: Firing XMP against enemy portal
Ingress: Recharging resonators at an existing portal
Different Sloan, different sentiment
There’s no place like the wonderful world of developer options
The experience was incredible. It was if I’d just stepped into the wonderful world of Oz. The experience was remarkably like Dorothy tapping her shiny red shoes wishing hwe returning to Kansas. There I was tapping the screen of my mobile phone, just like Dorothy tapping her shoes and wishing to be whisked away to …
Read more “There’s no place like the wonderful world of developer options”
