making sense of place ux cambridge 2014
DESCRIPTION
A prototype of a walking workshop to enable people to mindfully understand the sensory meaning of places. Written and run on same day at UX Cambridge 2014 as an experiment.TRANSCRIPT
Making Sense of a place
Playing with multimodal design
Place making
Sense making
What are you wanting to say?
What do the users want to know?
Impairments
Inclusion
What can we do?
Understand the place
Sense the place
Tools of trade
Cameras
Audio recording
Your body
Touch
Smell
Mapping the place
Understand the total environment
Walk the place
What do you get?
Don't be trapped by the visual but look
deeper
What do you do with all this research?
Go back to what people want to know and what they can
sense
Decide on overall structure
Dump stuff
Simplify it
Build it
Test it
Learn need for context
Importance of Priming
Need for a Key