A day later…(everything has gone blue)
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Ingress: ADA Refactor
Why are you stopping On-the-spot Penalty Fares? We’re working hard to make the public transport system simpler for everyone. Recent reviews found that our current public transport warnings and fines aren’t striking the right balance between fare compliance and what’s fair and reasonable. The Age – End of the line for $75 on-the-spot myki penalty fares
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Ingress: New mods
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Ingress: Using mods
The Question 3.1: Exploration homework for Week 3 of Design: Creation of Artifacts in Society required me to explore alternative solutions to my design problem. I supported this exploration by producing a decomposition of the design problem and 10 alternative design concepts (labelled A to J) that address my user experience gap and meet the needs of the […]
The Question 2.2: User needs homework for Week 2 of Design: Creation of Artifacts in Society required me to interview at least five different individuals who I believed share my user experience gap and then identify their user needs. I was also required to: refine the gap I’m addressing with a single statement create a list of […]
The Question 2.1: Design problem definition homework for Week 2 of Design: Creation of Artifacts in Society required me to refine the definition of the design problem (my user experience gap from Week 1) using the five-whys methodology and then create a list of problem statements arranged from most general to most specific, with particular […]
The Question 2.3: Visual expression 2 – 2D sketches homework for Week 2 of Design: Creation of Artifacts in Society required me to sketch a chair from top, front and side views as well as a cross-section of the chair.
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Compression carriage
Peak hour on Melbourne’s public transport.
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
@Ingress Portal under construction It seems to be already claimed by #Enlightened Also visible w/o scanner Possible? pic.twitter.com/1OujRbzi04 — Rowan Peter 📡🛠🛹❤🤘 (@rowan_peter) July 20, 2014
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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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
What was YouTube doing in the background besides consuming my mobile data plan? Something supernatural? Spooky and annoying. Background data now restricted.
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Ingress: Levelling up
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 […]
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Reporting in from ISTE2014
I just arrived in Atlanta, Georgia for the last two days of the ISTE 2014 and discovered my mates Alan Levine and Ben Rimes are not here. That’s disappointing. I mean, the International Society for Technology in Education (ITSE) conference is the largest educational technology conference in North America. Surely it’s the type of conference these two guys would […]
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Ingress: Capturing first portal
Wherever there’s a demand there’s a business opportunity (I guess.) Ingress presents an example of a virtual economy, where in-game items such as resonators, bursters, virus, power cube and other equipment can be sold for real-world currency. Interesting.
