I Phone Prototype For Cultural Maps The Househ(2)

iPhone prototype for Cultural Maps: the

householdAriana Koblitz

The brainstorming

I started all this with the soundbite of the "practical" aspects of the family life. So i looked around, and wondered: what were the potential hot buttons in the family?

Mostly, it was about who does... well... what.

My POV:

Karen is a mother of three kids, and kept her part time job.  She runs around all day, only to come home to find her children having left the laundry to fold, the dog to walk, and the dishes to clear away, even though they had initially offered to help.

Karen is looking for a way to incentivize the household chores.

EMPATHY

final product: the "household" app

What this app accomplishes:

• keeps track of chores-- helps organize the entire household

• involves the entire family• Karen can, from a distance, alert her

family members chores haven't been done yet

some of the feedback I've collected:

• similar bridging of reality & virtual space

• my mom would have love something like this

• need a better indicator for adding chores to map

Some necessary features I wasn't able to include:

• way to sync w/ different family members• actually taking photographs• automating the chore activation

Some other potential features:• Ppl have log-in account, which would

include preferences, assigned chores, etc.• with this assigned chore would come

automatic nagging• tie more explicitly to allowance: put in $

signs again, tie to a page that shows allowance

other prototypes

Medalert:  culturalmaps.org/medalert.htmlFamily Connections: culturalmaps.org/familyconnections.html

Take aways:

• have NOT had ANY exposure to coding, to designing web-related documents, to adobe dreamweaver... etc, therefore:

• especially appreciated learning about the PROCESS of design

• challenged myself-- which is a must• learned to be more systematic