Team Kerosene: Designing a Better Lighting Board

Jonathan CassEric GallimoreMolly McCormackLindsay Redmond

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Goals of the ProjectDesign Process

Interview Process

Scenarios and Personas

Current Design and How We Got HereDesign Decisions

Demonstration of the Prototype

Lessons LearnedNext Steps

Outline 2

Improve User Interaction of Lighting Boards

Apply Knowledge Gained in User Studies

Improve Understanding of Design Principles

Include Both Hardware and SoftwareLearn ProgrammingHave Fun!

Goals of the Project 3

Interview Process

8 Interviews (9 interviewees)2 Rounds

ExploratoryInteraction

Design Process 4

Personas

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Design Decision: Next Cue

Goal: Improve User Interaction

Design Decisions 7

Design Decision: Buttons

Design Decisions

Blackout ButtonNext ButtonDone Editing (demo)

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Design Decision: Modality

Design Decisions

Goal: Have no modes

Revised Task

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Coding Design Decisions

Hardware in Software DilemmaRed RectangleScrollingTeamwork and Coding

Design Decisions 10

Biggest Lesson(s) Learned

It’s easier to make interfaces thinking like code than code thinking like interfaces

Can’t please everyone

Lessons Learned 11

Next Steps

Copy and Undo FunctionalityStage for Hi-Fi PrototypeNumerical EditingNumberingCognitive Walkthrough Implementation

Next Steps 12