Feb. 25 — Mar. 03 | Bala, Desire, Mu, Dora, Sofia — MACRO UX — IBM BRIEF 4 Feb. 25 — Mar. 03 | Bala, Desire, Mu, Dora, Sofia One thing worth mentioning from last week was that Al & John organized a workshop called “Dancing about Money”. First of, I was lucky enough to attend Nigel Todd’s part, who is the author of the book “The Social…

Feb. 18–24 | Bala, Desire, Mu, Dora, Sofia — MACRO UX — IBM BRIEF 3 Feb. 18–24 | Bala, Desire, Mu, Dora, Sofia Some of the feedback by last week’s presentation was What is the transaction? What is the mechanism for obtaining hidden benefit? Who is benefiting? And truly most of the ideas we had were missing at least one of the brief’s objectives. John…

Feb. 10–17 | Bala, Desire, Mu, Dora, Sofia — MACRO UX — IBM BRIEF 2 Feb. 10–17 | Bala, Desire, Mu, Dora, Sofia My personal research focused on projects that where dealing with transactions or currencies. First, I needed to determine the difference between transaction and interaction (Graph 1). …

Feb. 3 — 10 |Bala, Desire, Mu, Dora, Sofia — MACRO UX — IBM BRIEF 1 Feb. 3 — 10 |Bala, Desire, Mu, Dora, Sofia On our first meeting with the companies, we were introduced to the brief and the members that we were gonna work with. Our brief was “Design a way to take advantage of peoples digital transactions without them knowing”. In their presentation…

May Henn, Jinqi Han, Zhe Lou, Ramya Sekar, Sofia Alexiou — May Henn, Jinqi Han, Zhe Lou, Ramya Sekar, Sofia Alexiou NOTE: Good photos towards the end. For this brief we had to design a way for people to physically and digitally control an avatar. The inspiration came from Violet, which is Steph’s avatar and a few characteristics about her is…

Greta Chen, Anya Li, Zhihan Xu, Willow Yan, Sofia Alexiou — Greta Chen, Anya Li, Zhihan Xu, Willow Yan, Sofia Alexiou For this brief we had to design and make a biomaterial instrument and play it in class. Anoushka and Ronnie presented their work and relevant examples for us to have a reference. Anoushka’s recipes for biomaterial bases were particularly helpful…

Anya Li, Ranga Bhave, Malavika Mahajan, Zhihan Xu, Jinqi Han — Anya Li, Ranga Bhave, Malavika Mahajan, Zhihan Xu, Jinqi Han The question we decided to ask our cohort was “What is one thing that reminds you of home?”. I created the Google Form, which you can find here, and although we only got only 17 answers from 40+…

Anya Li, Ranga Bhave, Malavika Mahajan, Zhihan Xu, Jinqi Han — Anya Li, Ranga Bhave, Malavika Mahajan, Zhihan Xu, Jinqi Han For this project, we had to explore paper’s material, cultural and emotional qualities using body storming as a research method. We did some experimenting in class with a piece of paper, which was really fun. …

Ava Shepherd, Kiesha Mundin, Willow Yan, Zhe Lou — Ava Shepherd, Kiesha Mundin, Willow Yan, Zhe Lou Following last week’s presentation we decided to stick to the second idea but figure out a way to turn it into an experience. After our tutorial with Al and John, we…