Design Assignment 1.2
Brainstormed ideas:
1. Mobile app that shows laundry completeness (dorms)
2. Mobile app that shows food inventory (office/home)
3. Mobile app that shows efficiency of space use (office/home)
4. Mobile app that shows cleanliness/dust (home)
5. Mobile app that shows water usage (home)
6. Mobile app that shows a heat map of where you spend the most time (home)
7. Mobile app that reminds you when to cancel your subscriptions (home)
8. Mobile app that lets you see video footage outside your door (home)
9. Mobile app that tracks your sleep patterns and times (home)
10. Mobile app that lets you control lights and timers (home/office)
11. Mobile app that controls swimming pool usage/cleaning (home)
12. Mobile app that manages and reminds you of housekeeping (cleaning, nanny, etc.)
13. Mobile app that suggests clothing options based on weather
14. Mobile app that shows how you look after using makeup
15. Mobile app that performs a sock-matching algorithm for maximum efficiency
Favorite Idea: #1
Laundry completeness is my favorite idea because I empathize with it a lot. As a student living in a dorm, I always go to the laundry rooms when there are no available laundry machines. Also, I sometimes forget that I have laundry there, and I will set a timer to remind me when to go get it, but I think it should be automatically linked to the laundry machine.
Design Explanation:
There are 3 screens in my low-fidelity prototype:
1. App opening image introducing idea!
2. Search bar to search/register for a particular address, which brings you to a list view of all washing/drying machines associated/registered with that address. Shows high-level details of all machines
3. Detail view of specific machine with cycle selected a
Major Insights:
Current situation:
- The major interaction difference from what the user currently does is that instead of going to the timer app, they go to use the watch/timer app and set it to the correct time
List of major insights:
- User thinks there is little benefit in having an app; app needs to create a lot of value in order to justify having it
- Major possible benefits: connected to actual machine timer, which is different from just having a timer
- Possibly provide farther insight to what specific cycle the clothes washing is on
- Can give a more thorough before/after of clothing in wash?
- Possibly have a waiting list/intent form to show that other people want to use it around a given time to optimize for usage
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