Let’s recap
The conscious decision the team took for the first group assignment was to deprioritise feasibility with the aim of letting our imagination run wild to produce a concept that while being far-fetched in some aspects would help us generate uninhibited ideas.
Paired with the background research that we conducted into factors impacting on rational (those that have an actual effect) and irrational fears (those that have a perceived effect) of personal safety we proposed a solution that addressed the requirements of the problem statement but did not hit the mark in terms of a scalable solution.
Concepts, concepts everywhere!
The team decided to do the following:
- Review previous concepts that had been consigned to the cutting room floor and determine whether they should be revisited
- Individually work on new concepts to generate new ideas to be considered
The team likes to approach the above tasks individually in an attempt to produce a diversity of ideas. Following is a slideshow of the concepts that the team developed in this new round of ideation.
Reaching a concept consensus
We then regrouped to present and discuss our concepts, the approach we took was:
- Each team member presents their concept without discussion, this is to avoid getting sidetracked and allows us to focus, listen and understand each others concepts as best as possible
- Following presentation of concepts we discuss the merits and challenges each of the concepts might face before coming to a consensus on an idea to move forward with
Concept presentation
Concept selection discussion
Below is our complete unabridged concept selection discussion (Luke, we know how much you loved the video in our first post so we expect you to listen to all 48min of this!).
We discuss the positives and negatives of each of our concepts with topics ranging from the cost of implementation, scalability, leveraging/re-purposing of existing infrastructure and finally focus on wearables.
We decide that only a wearable can allay fears, both rational and irrational, at all times since it travels with the user. The other solutions create low to medium density islands of actual and perceived safety.
Wayfinding our way forward
The concept we will take through to testing is based on the two concepts below but the thought and discussion of all of our concepts will shape the final product since all of the concepts have considered the same background research and our finding that lighting, wayfinding and policing exist in that sweet-spot of being both a rational and irrational factor increasing feelings of safety.
We have elicited much valued feedback from the project sponsor (that’s you Luke) and are feeling re-energised and excited to take this concept forward and have determined a core feature set to work on.
As we are now working on a wearable device we are sourcing a Lilypad to use for our prototype and have decided that since the form-factor of our device is critically important we will work on developing both a functional prototype and an industrial design form-factor focused prototype.
That’s all for now, more next week when we will discuss the development of our test plan and our prototyping.
IDEA9202 STUDIO 2016 