_intel | smart street

2006
Ethnography, user expereince design

collaborated with: Jess Charlesworth, Chris Hand, Henry Holland, Johanna Sim, Susana Soares, Marei Wollersberger , Tom Wynne-Morgan

Brief:
This project will look at how design can be used to speculate on the future, through hypothetical proposals and scenarios, and by working closely with the people who could be most affected by those proposals. It will focus on a particular section of Gloucester Road, in the London Borough of South Kensington, to envisage it as the smart street of the future.
It is expected that both the methods and the results of the project will inform and influence the larger Street Smart Spaces work being carried out by Intel throughout 2006.

Build your own street :

Let people pick some objects to build their "future Gloucester street".

_BMW | nomads, mini-ness and infospaces

2005
User experience design , 1 week intensive project

Brief:

Cars no longer simply travel across geographic and spatial landscapes, they also traverse information landscapes. The tendency though, is to adapt existing objects like phones, TVs, DVD players, and GPS navigation devices for use in the car without really changing the nature of the experience. What if the car itself became an interface, would this suggest new devices, new uses for the car, or even new relationships between people, cars, and environments?
Think of the driver as a nomad using their Mini to navigate, experience and enjoy the information
landscape... what kind of relationship to it would the Mini provide? How would they access it? What tools would they need? How would it differ throughout the day/night and from person to person? How could they do all this in a very ‘Mini’ way?
The purpose of this project is to imagine new scenarios of use for the Mini in relation to information landscapes. And how the specific character of the mini could be reflected in its interactions with an information landscape and any necessary devices and services

Proposal:

Based on mini chat room, We have created a dating service where users can play car chase in order to find the dating partner.