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Mobile Media Life was a collaborative project with Motorola to explore imaging, communicating, visualizing, and viewing in everyday life. The goal was to help people become skilled at enjoying, producing and interacting with rich media at work, school, or play thorough new interfaces and services on mobile devices.

This purpose of this project was to design the concept for a consumer product that Motorola could develop and deliver to market within the next five years. The product is to be designed for people living in the United States and between the ages of 13 and 25. It should give people new opportunities to experience media on mobile devices.

Our Solution: Motoroo

MotoRoo is a touch-screen mobile phone coupled with a service that allows members to share media. Users can see what media their friends are watching or listening to, and they can also access this media through the phone. This allows friends to share their television, music, internet, and video preferences in an interactive way.

Users are also able to view or listen to media together, and interactive video and text enhance this experience.

Team

• Carrie Chan
  Interaction Design
• Melissa Clarkson
  Communication Planning & Information Design
• Jamin Hegeman
  Interaction Design
• Carisa Sirak
  Business Administration

Process

Research included in-home interviews.

Diagramming our research findings to discover patterns and opportunities.

Artifact produced during a participatory design session where participants were asked to model the self.

Participatory design social networking map.

Sketch from a concept scenario.

Wireframes documenting a particular scenario flow.

GoCoffee was a result of a project for John Zimmerman’s Interaction and Visual Interface Design course in fall 2006. A Cooperesque persona and scenario drove the design process.

We used research from interviews to develop the persona. In addition, we created a flow diagram and wire frames based on the scenario.

Our final presentation included a Flash movie demonstrating the interface. A FlashLite file was also created to assess the look and feel on a mobile platform.

GoCoffee Team

• Jamin Hegeman
  Interaction Design
• Rachel Kurpiel
  Interactive Media Management
• Kipum Lee
  Interaction Design

Deliverables

• Demonstration

Process

We categorized the finding of the user research to help identify patterns.

We used a flow diagram to better understand the iteration for our scenario.

We created wireframes to prototype the interface and conduct think-alouds.

For tomorrow’s class, which begins in six hours, my mobile project team will be presenting our paper prototypes.

Again, if you haven’t been paying attention, we’re creating a mobile application to help people find a coffee shop. Our persona travels often and really likes coffee, but not just any coffee or coffee shop. Our man is concerned with quality.

Based on the feedback we got from the wire frames and flow diagram, we revised our persona and scenario a bit, and made some modification to the wire frames. And then we just let the wire frames inform our prototypes. It actually seemed rather simple.

One of my team members was charged with mocking up the prototypes, and he did a fine job.

When it comes time to turn these guys into Flash that we’ll load onto a mobile phone for the some testing, that’s where I come in.

In the meantime, we’ll probably find out we’re not framing the problem incorrectly. But at least our prototypes look pretty, and that’s what design is all about.