Week 2 - Prototyping

Hi!

This week has been all about prototyping. We started out on paper and then moved on to digital tools.

When we were satisfied with our paper prototypes, we tried to replicate the design in Fluid UI, a basic online prototyping tool. We were only at it for an hour, so this is all we got:

Right now, we've split up and are trying out different prototyping tools. Things are going well. We're having fun. We're excited to see what people think of our work.

/K.E.L.

Summary of week 1

Hello again!
We are now preparing for our first critique session (technically the second), where we will present the work we have done so far. To summarize, we want to make a survival guide for apocalyptic scenarios. I the app, we want to combine educational aspects with more entertaining gaming parts. The idea is that the user can execute challenges to test their survival skills, as well as read up on tips and tricks to get better. Our target group consists of people who are interested in learning about survival methods in the post-apocalyptic theme and people who more generally like to challenge themselves. After gathering feedback on some sketches we did, we have recieved some further ideas we would like to continue developing. For example, to focus more on storytelling and less on gameplay and separate challenges.

Something we have been struggling with is the balance between education and entertainment. We want users to learn practical things, but an app just filled with information could easily get boring. That's why we want to have some sort of gamification, we are just not sure how exactly to implement it yet. For the coming week, we will develop our idea further and at the same time start the prototyping of our application.

Länk

/E.L.K.

Take off!

Hello!

We are three students at KTH in Stockholm who are working on a project in the course DH2628 Interaction Design Methods. The project is based on ideas developed by students in the grades 7 to 9 who participated in a competition called Appjakten.

After browsing through many interesting ideas we decided to take inspiration from one called "App-okalypsen". The original idea is an application where the user can read and discuss about different conspiracy theories. We've taken that idea, but decided to focus solely on apocalypse teories and scenarios. We haven't decided yet where to take it exactly, but we are leaning toward an app that can help the user prepare for a future apocalyptic scenario.

To be continued!

/L.E.K.