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UX Homegrown

Aims:

In a team you will explore the theories, tools and frameworks to identify, develop and test out a value proposition for a new interaction design tool or service. You will evolve the design of a specific concept based on a clearly defined user experience strategy. Here you will design the approach, select appropriate research and design techniques, identify broader organisational components and structures necessary for the delivery of the improved user experience and demonstrate the rationale for the final system including underlying models and intended user experience.

Objectives:

You will learn to create a demonstrator of an extended user experience within the domain of Homegrown. What do you consider home? What would you like to grow? The format is a video that showcases an environmental and/ or device centred demonstrator in a clear, concise and compelling way. – Understand organisational requirements and user goals – Develop concepts and information flow – Organise content – Incorporate interaction and visual design

Deliverables:

Oooby: Food from our backyards

Ooooby is a company which supports local produce growers buy delivering their fresh produce to the doors of the locals. Their goal is to ‘make local food convenient, affordable and fair everywhere.’

‘we source the best we can find’ ‘we find local food and bring it to your neighbourhood’

Locals are able to subscribe and purchase different types of produce boxes, there are size choices, organic, fruit and/or vegetable options. The contents depends on what produce is seasonal and what is available each week, but each box contains a good variety and is always of a high quality.  Within each box delivered to someones door is a printed letter from Ooooby which gives the customer a list of all the produce in the box, who grew what produce and where it came from and how it was treated. 

Range of other products; bananas, breads, coffee beans, eggs, chocolate, preserves

New Zealand and Australia in some of the big cities

Recipes

Creates relationships between neighbours, and between growers and consumers

All profit goes towards building new local food supplies

On their website you can find out who the growers are, suppliers, advisors and the faces behind the organisation. It is mosaic of portraits and portraits, when you filter your search for example just to look at ‘growers’ the opacity of all photos unrelated to the search lowers. 

Adopt a tree at Eastwoodhill Eastwood hill is a national arboretum of New Zealand

Plant your own fruit tree. Follow its growth through an app which educates you in different stages of your trees growth through cute illustrated animations. Make sure your little tree is watered; given friendly little reminders. Grow a relationship Grow a tree from home where the you are in a city apartment, aboard on holiday or in the wrong climate Reap the reward at different growth stages; get some juice

Pondering our project the night before class I realised I wasn’t fully content with the idea we had going. I felt like we hadn’t truely explored the different possibilities. Having an open brief is somewhat intimidating, there is so many things you could do that’s it’s overwhelming. But at the same time I feel we are still stumped for ideas, we have always been given constraints and a problem which needs to be solved. Never have we as students been in a situation where for once, we have to find the problem ourselves.

So at 11:25pm I began a new brainstorm generating all thoughts and words which came to mind for the word home, and grown;  I created a long chain list of words. Then linking two words together and thinking of problems.

This mass scribble of words and ideas what surprisingly helpful and it led to the development of more ideas, small ideasI could pitch to the group next class. Idea One: Problem: Destruction of environments and ecosystems, it’s happening all over the world. Because more of the serious cases are not happening in New Zealand we forget. We have a disconnection to what is happening in other parts of the world.    - An interactive screen/advertisement. It shows a healthy and happy environment, perhaps a rainforest, or even a solo plant or tree. - Overtime this environment will wither and slowly die, unless however someone interacts with it. - The interaction would be giving some time and some love, it would be a positive interaction that would bring the environment or plant back to health. - Perhaps this theme of message could be linked to a charity or foundation who stands for nature and preserving ecosystems and habitats, maybe it is the protection of native trees? - Linked to a greater cause, perhaps after a certain number of interactions a bracelet would be given. The bracelet could then show that this person is a supporter of the cause, maybe even take them to a site where there is more information. This stage would help extend the period of interactivity. 

Idea Two: This idea stems from a Christmas tree farm in the UK where customers can go down and help plant the baby christmas trees. They tag their Christmas tree and then go back to the farm when the tree is grown so they can take it home for Christmas.  - Sponsoring a tree for replantation - Creating a relationship between nature and humans - Go to a planting day and plant your tree, or just sponsor.  Receive a tag for the tree so you can monitor it’s growth and see how its doing. - After you’ve helped plant a certain number of trees you are rewarded. The rewards are small gifts which are wood/tree related, perhaps pencils, small items, coasters, rulers. 

- Addition to Fitbit?? Every time you walk a cerain distance a tree is planted?