Volley: Collaborative Animation App Concept for Microsoft Research
For web: Volley imagined For Xbox/Kinect: Volley imagined Last summer, I interned at Microsoft Research at the Future Social Experience lab (FUSE). Working with design mentor Richard Zaragoza, I spent 3 months intensively brainstorming, conceptualizing, designing, and pitching a concept for an online collaborative animation app called Volley. A year after my summer’s work, I...
Ready for ITP Thesis Presentation : Doki Doki Dash
Doki Doki Dash is my thesis idea that I conceptualized in Jan. 2011., a culmination of my final work at NYU ITP that touches on mobile, gaming, and social/skill play. It’s a prototype of a mobile fitness app that uses a mystery game to get players outdoors, solving crime and getting fit. In the game,...
Doki Doki Dash: Meet My Game Characters
So, what is Doki Doki Dash? Imagine a mystery game but instead of hunting criminals on-screen, your detective skills pay off by pounding the pavement, literally. Doki Doki Dash is a mobile exercise game I am designing for my thesis at NYU ITP. It’s a crime-solving game meets exercise app. I want to inject a...
Designing for Mobile Apps: The Process
Spending a Sat evening listening to this webinar: How to Design and Prototype for Mobile Devices led by Amir Khella and Josh Clark. I decided to jot my notes that I found really interesting from a user experience/product design focus from this 80-min. podcast. Mobile Design Context What is the STORY OF YOUR APP? What...
Code Mama: Emergency Mobile Report
Code MAMA – Design for Unicef Presentation from cindy wong on Vimeo. Code MAMA (Mobile Assistance for Medical Aid) is a mobile outreach service aimed to reconnect community health workers after major disasters strikes. Research shows that its these NGO organizations that need the resources to quickly reassemble their staff/volunteers after emergencies. Code MAMA aims...
How Does Your City Feel?
How Does Your City Feel? captures the emotions people feel in their cities by measuring them in the contents of local real-time Twitter messages. What are people feeling in New York City? Seattle? San Francisco? Sad? Happy? Angry? Love? When you visit, please choose a city and click an emotion to see the results. If...
Proposed Creative Workflow: Ask Yourself
via Frank Chimero. Sweet and simple. Does it have heart or not? For any creative-tech makers inclined, that’s the killer question. Print this. Display it. Remind yourself. Daily Affirmations.
StreetSnaps: Mobile Street Fashion
StreetSnaps is a mobile street photography site where people can photograph the fashionably dressed in New York City and email their photographs directly from their cellphones. The StreetSnaps website will automatically take the photography emails and upload the content online based on the New York City neighborhoods indicated. See the stylistic choices of folks dressed...