technology as the extension of vision

We’ve been busy preparing for our final presentation on Thursday 13 November. We have been working on a number of design outcomes which will help to form this presentation. Our aim is to focus on our product and the research we conducted, and how this helped us make informed design decisions, particularly in regards to target audience. Below is an example of our product board, which will be part of our exhibiting ‘space’. We have also produced a range of memory games + tests to act as a ‘hook’ for people to be interested in our product and position them within the right context for understanding how our product works, in aiding the retention of information.

We are very pleased to say that our proposal document has been completed a whole two weeks early from the submission date!

My main task over the last couple of weeks has been to design this publication document and collate all of our written information and design developments. Although very text-heavy, the document gives a great insight into our indepth research into new technologies, documenting this from initial research, idea development, and finally design development. We have also incorporated a number of visuals and specifications for our designs, including identity, product, and branding.

Both Amy and Danielle have been great with input and feedback with content and design.
A great team effort all round!

Our next tasks will involve preparing for our final presentation…

Below is our final logo. We have increased the space between the arrow and ‘mind’ so visually it appears of equal weight with the ‘re’ and the arrow. We have also slightly increased the thickness of the arrow so it has more dominance. This logo will always be featured in the negative format as shown. It will never be shown as a positive out of white. It is intended that the black boundary box be seen as part of the mark and not simply a coloured space for a negative version of the mark.

Also below is the icon which will appear when the re<mind product is plaugged (via USB cable) into a computer.

Titanium – A light weight durable, strong, corrosion resistant material with a greyish colour. Often used for: aerospace (jet engines, missiles and spacecrafts), military, industrial process (chemicals and petro-chemicals, desalination plants, pulp, and paper), automotive, agri-food, medical prostheses, orthopaedic implants, dental endodontic instruments and files, dental implants, sporting goods, jewelry, mobile phones. 

Aluminum – a top of the grange light weight material that gives a really individual look, and has a remarkable ability to resist corossion with an appearance ranging from silvery to a dull grey. Aluminum is vital to the aerospace industry and very important in other areas of transportation and building

Stainless Steel – Light wieght and strong, nickel-free. Common uses for stainless steel are cutlery and watch straps.

Polycarbonate – a low cost option, mid wieght yet durable a semi synthetic solid material suitable for industrial product can be produced it a range of colours.

Prototyping the glass gave us great direction in the form that the product should take.

Requirements

The glasses require a few ertain elements to function including – lenses, frames (capable of fitting the computer system in), a battery, a battery connection point (Interface Cable 400PCU), a memory card slot (micro SD Size), a camera, a speaker/voice recorder, a power button and a record button.

The intial design

This design was intended to have black pastic frames, however we have decided to propose a product range that features various materials and styles. This material would be on the cheaper end of the market. This design was refined further with a reconsideration of the placment of buttons and plugs as well as a change to a titanium material.

Here is some olf logo development work. We originally had the thought of calling the product ‘Beta’ after we found out the brainwaves used when concentrating and in particular, when trying to remember something, were called ‘Beta waves’. However, after doing a survey on what our general audience thought the word Beta meant, over 60% said trial, bug ridden, test version (for websites). After much brainstorming and further research we settled on ReMind. Re, spanning from the latin word for ‘again’ and mind, being the focal point for our product functions. Here is some development work for this second logo:

The concept behind this work in progress comes directly from our research. In our online survey a huge amount of people said they used repition as their number one memory assisting practice. Therefore we have repeated the product name (remind – re spanning from latin meaning ‘again’) 6 times which is the same amount of letters present in the word to create a square, which represents the mind.

Thoughts/comments/advice apprecited!

So we hand in our proposal document (undesigned version) tomorrow – i think we ahve done really well by making sure we covered all topics and sections in detail.

Our research methods (online survey, ethnographic study and focus group visualisations) have given us alot of evidence to back up what we’re developing and why. The most important method that we have just begun and will hopefully focus on this week is the paper prototying. Here are some initial sketches (VERY rough)!