Gestural Ideation, IXDA Workshop 11.06.2010

Touch and Beyond III: Make-A-Thon 2010 gestural ideation

Joyce Chou + Prarthana Panchal

NICE TO MEET YOU

Joyce Chou Customer Innovations Producer

Prarthana Panchal Senior User Experience Designer

SENSORS GRAPHICS PHYSICAL

WHAT IS KINETIC UI?

Multi-touch makes us happy

LET’S GET PHYSICAL

How do we design for gesture?

We need the right ideation tools.

Old ways of brainstorming won’t always cut it.

Gestural ideation needs to take a 360 view.

SCREEN

DEPRIVATION

TECHNIQUES

SENSORY

DEPRIVATION

EGO

DEPRIVATION

Deprivation techniques will help you ideate for what’s missing from touch interactions.

SCREEN

DEPRIVATION Ignoring the screen to help you get

beyond today’s solutions.

SENSORS

Explore new ways to combine and leverage

sensors for richer experiences.

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Now let’s get intimate with the physicality

of the object. ACTIVITY

From you kit:

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Sensors Card

Action Card

Concept Sheets

Markers

Pair Up, Stand up and get physical

8 mins

25 minutes

8 mins

Ideate, gesture and Capture ideas

Ideate and Capture

Generate as many ideas as possible. Use the artifacts to

narrate a gesture-based solution for an interaction from

the action list and consider new ways to use sensors.

2 mins Share out to another group

Share out to another group 2 mins

SENSORY

DEPRIVATION Taking away a sense to help you use

your instinctual reactions.

BUILD OFF NATURAL

BEHAVIOR, NOT TECHNOLOGY

Now get unfamiliar with your normal

experience. ACTIVITY

From you kit:

Scenario Card

Tools Card

Sense deprivation tool

Concept Sheets

Markers

Pair Up, Stand up and get sense deprived. 25 minutes

Use a sense deprivation tool to exaggerate your senses

while you act out common mobile scenarios. Go with

your first instinctual reaction to solving the problem.

8 mins

8 mins

Ideate, gesture and Capture ideas

Ideate and Capture

2 mins Share out to another group

Share out to another group 2 mins

EGO

DEPRIVATION Looking to experts to help you

design a holistic experience.

PARALLEL DISCIPLINES

Don’t be a hero, you can’t do it alone.

Now wear a different hat to look at the

whole picture. ACTIVITY

From you kit:

Roles card

A concept from an earlier

ideation sessions

Concept Sheets

Markers

Groups of 4, each of you choose different role.

20 mins

25 minutes

Refine and Storyboard your ideas

You will be working in a cross-functional team to refine a

concept, but will approach it through the lens of the type

of expertise you come from.

5 mins Shareout

WHAT DEPRIVATIONS WERE THEY AGAIN?

SCREEN

DEPRIVATION

SENSORY

DEPRIVATION

EGO

DEPRIVATION

IF YOU WANT MORE…

Think about:

• Visual secondary research

• Biomimicry

• Electric prototypes

• Storyboarding extensions

• Accessibility in human factors

THANK YOU!

Joyce Chou [email protected]

Prarthana Panchal [email protected]

Questions? Feel free to contact us at:

Special thanks to:

Jon Mann

Ellie Kemery

Anthony Giardini

Wexley School for Girls