#billbuxton

Key Ideas:

Sketching= thinking, not about creating art

Getting the design right and then getting the right design- Bill Buxton

Doing scenarios and user flows was really useful because it broke down how the app would be used in practice. It also showed insight in how a user would readily navigate the app, screen by screen. 

My scenario for Mal and his son in the morning, with the app, Riser

My messy user flow 

The user flow shows the insight into how both Mal and his son would interact with this app. Parental guidelines are need to help implement the activities (or interactive content) and set the timer to manage how his son would approach and do the relevant tasks. It would also help monitor his son's activities to view his progress.

His son's participation is through the interactive content and rising to the occasion to beat the timed activities, retrieve his reward and make his dad proud by being so helpful. 

The mess aims to show the iterations that I created to try and fine tune the app process. It was also interesting getting feedback from other course members, particularly as their approach was all different. It can sometimes be hard to extrapolate which advice is useful though.

From what I have gathered after reading the article, Bill lays more importance on Innovation rather than invention as it is a process of deep retrospection, acute refinement and detailed execution.  Every company is required of an innovation team, which will aid in taking it forward. It must have a deep rooted vision that one can keep revisiting or reviewing and can alter it any way they see it fit.   He says that, very often we get carried away and obsess over the idea of creating something new, without dwelling on for too long we keep jumping to the next concept. We keep trying to find solutions, for a problem that we think exists but in reality, it may or may not even be the problem that we need to solve. We have experienced this in our classroom situation, while trying to figure out what our vision statement for our project. It’s important to understand the essence of each word because each and every one has a different implication and hence as a whole, the entire statement needs to be seamlessly threaded so that each part will make sense by itself. Framing the vision statement wrong, would’ve definitely led us to solving the wrong problem.