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Intro Overview Secondary Ideation Feedback Finals
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Rebranding
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Introduction
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Intro Boon is the smart aroma diffuser which prevents office workers from getting stress through aroma therapy and also encourage them to move away from their seats to exercise. This was a joint project with Andy Park who was my classmate during Product interface class. Through the research we found out that there are no products that actually can relief the office workers from stress. There were four main problems related to the office stress which were lack of hydration, air contamination, environmental stress and social stress. So from that, our concept was to release psychological stress through aroma therapy and encourage users to exercise and move around to get rid of physical stress.
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Overview
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Overview For Boon, different research approach has been taken place. We divided different sections for the research in both UX/UI and physical products. Through the different scenarios and wire frames, we worked how the user will react to the application and the product itself. We also got feedback from users with mock ups to develop our idea towards the final design.
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Secondary Device
Ideation
Feedback
Finals
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Secondary As a secondary research, we started off identifying our target user and their life style. We observed and interviewed four different users specifically and found out that most users do not bother to do the exercise while they are working and sometimes forget about it even though that will help them to prevent or release stress. Market size, competitors research, products in market research also have taken place during this research.
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Secondary
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For Officer workers A product that encourage office workers to stretch and have psychological relief within their limited space, and provides information about stress levels in order to have some ideas of their body conditions. This product can give various stretching methods and how to do stretching effectively in the office.
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How to motivate? To improve your health, by allowing you to stay active and in shape throughout work day. To improve work, by helping user to experience the mental and physical benefits of physical motion and movement throughout work day. To improve life, by helping user to transform health and fitness by living a more active and lifestyle during the times user need it most.
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Psychological
Physical
The main issue related to the workers is that
Aroma Therapy has been used widely in order to
they never move around or do the exercise
prove to decrease the stress level and prevent
while they are working. These day smart phones
stress with different kinds of scents. There are
created larger issue related to the office stress.
countless aroma recipes which can prevent
Even a small movement or stretching can help to
stress giving them psychological relief.
prevent and relief the stress.
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Essential oil recipe
Clary Sage
Lemon
Lavender
Chamo-
Vetiver
Bergamota
Jasmine
Grapefruit
Can create countless recipes 14
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Competitors
Bud Style Anion Aroma
ZAQ Noor Aromatherapy
ZAQ Allay Aromatherapy
Oregon Scientific Disc
Diffuser
Diffuser
Diffuser
Aroma Diffuser
• Air refresher + Humidifier
• Auto Shut off
• Advanced LiteMist Tech-
• Mood light
• Easy to use, safe, silent
• Operates up to 3-4 Hours
nology
• LED clock
ultrasonic diffusion
• Cheap
• Operates up to 3-4 Hours
• Fragrance diffused by fan
• Suited space - 25 square
• A/C Adapter
• Soothing Colored light
• Removable glass oil tank
• Easy oil refill
for easy cleaning
meter • User friendly design with auto switch-off timer
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Secondary
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Market Employed workers in United
90% health hazards
States The cause of office worker’s Excluding 12.2 million unem-
health hazards mainly starts
ployed people, the rest of the
from their office environment,
population in United States is
job stress, its physical and
employed
psychological office air quality and ventilation
7-9 average working hours
30 thousands of office workers
Average working hours of the office workers are varying 7 to
Workers are sick mainly due
9 hours. This hours are
to occupational stress, disor-
lated excluding lunch time and
ders associated with trauma
breaks.
and muscle disorders
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Products in market
Medication
Air purifier
Exercise
Aroma therapy
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Toy
Interviews
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Interviews
Rachael Julius
Adele Avivi
Art Center Librarian
Admission Office
“ Sometimes I ignore my fatigues and continue on my work. And I know it is not the best choice”
“ If anything, I would take a quick exercise and take a walk to get fresh air”
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Kevork Kurdogliam
Sae Hee Park
Social Security Office
Product Design Student
“ Even though stretching is essential to me, I constantly forget to do it because I am too focused on working”
“ I usually walk outside for 5 minutes between time to time ”
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Ideation
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Ideation Based on our research insights, we could develop several ideas into two main ideas. During our ideation process we tried to develop or solve the current problem with the existing products, but also come up with innovative solutions. Wire frame and user scenario method has been used to identify different obstacles that user’s going to have during the use of our product. Button placement and the work flow for the application also has been carefully considered during this process.
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Ideation
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Idea 1 : Aroma Lounge Aroma Lounge idea has been started wtih the aroma therapy that can be done easily through the humidifier. So we decided to use that idea and bring to the office environment. We did various ideation to create mock up out of those ideas.
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Rough sketches
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Application wire frame
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Wire frame
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Scenario for Aroma Lounge
User can turn on the device
Humidifier is already on be-
before the work
fore she comes to office
She started do her work
After 2 hours of work, she wants to have some break
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She realize that her duration
She press the start button for
She changed her mind to do
She added different session
time of aroma session has
another session
different option instead of
with different mixtures of aro-
“just� start
ma from the favorite menu
ended
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Scenario for Aroma Lounge
She enjoys her own custom-
She loved her customized
Another users, or co-workers
He sees the list of the news
ized aroma session.
aroma and share the recipe
get the alarms of news feed
feed from the-share menu
through share menu
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Users can check other peo-
He checks the recipe and
He enjoys the scent that
Users talk about the scent
ple’s recipes
immediately can since with
Jacky made.
they shared.
device he has
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Idea 2 : Forest Forest idea came from the metaphor of the living plant. User can think of their plant as a part of themselves like pet to raise to meditate. Moreover, not only that humidifier idea with oxygen provider was added during the process.
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Ideation
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Application wire frame
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Forest : Wire
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Scenario for Forest
User can turn on
Product produce
Grass goes down
Motivate user to
User walk outside
the device before
aroma and humid-
when product has
get out of seat and
to place the prod-
the work
ifies user’s work
no battery
takes walk uncon-
uct in sun
area
sciously
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Solar power
Notification pops
Bring back the
Grass change
Open window or
charging. User
up when product is
product and place
color toilet the user
door to circulate air
stretches a bit and
done charging
it in a favor spot
know when CO2
go back inside
level is high
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Feedback
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Feedback Based on our ideation sketches and wire frames, we created the physical mock ups and application mock up to test out with the users to observe their reaction. There were huge amounts of feedbacks from the users and this led us to be able to develop our ideas towards the final. We tested out with user on both physical product and the application mock up.
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Feedback
Interviews
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UI Feedback Aroma lounge
Babara Nickel
Forest
Art Center enrollment service
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Physical product feedback Aroma lounge
Forest
• Wish something that can be not close to her paper
• Strong feeling about Eco-friendly solar power
works.
charged product.
• Interested in preset option. What if there is a quick
• Interested in the concept of office workers going
access button on the product itself?
outside by interacting with the product, not forcing the to get an exercise • Prefers grass version of air purifier/aroma diffuser over stationary version because it has less steps to operate
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Feedback
Interviews
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UI Feedback Aroma lounge
Kevork Kurdogliam
Forest
Social Security Office
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Physical product feedback Aroma lounge
Forest
• Design of the product should be integrated with
• Refill up the water for the humidifier should be
the other desk products
really simple.
• More clear indication of buttons and functions to
• Physical power button to turn it off, instead of just
show which one is which.
operating with the iphone • There are not much space for this sized product for my table.
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Feedback
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UI Feedback Aroma lounge
Rachel Julius
Forest
Art Center librarian
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Physical product feedback Aroma lounge
Forest
• Wants to have separate analogue operation
• She thought air purifier was working. - She wanted
buttons on the physical product
to show us how it works, but she realized that it was
• Maybe, timer that can be operated like a alarm
broken : Does not care about the purifying air or
clock to turn on the device
environment around them.
• Should be easy to operate and change the aroma
• Plants and green color makes her relaxing, and
capsule
that’s why she sometimes go out to see the landscape. • It needs simple and fast way to fill up the water for humidifier 43
Feedback
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Interviews
UI Feedback
Adele Avivi
Forest
Art Center Admission
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Physical product feedback Aroma lounge
Forest
• Though there is a interface on the Iphone, I think
• Sealing the water container is an important factor.
there should be separate operation system on the
• As she drops a lot of stuff from her desk.
product
• How often do I have to fill up the water? Simple
• Touch screen on the product should be withstand
way of filling out the water.
when user drops it. Because she tend to drop a lot of stuffs on her desk.
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Finals
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Finals For the finals, we finalized our user scenario and a smart phone application. For the user scenario, we could identify how the users are going to use our products in daily lives. This project was done in 2013, however, Andy and I decided to redesign some of the applications and physical product with recent trend. All the functions and interactions are kept same, except for the aesthetic part of the design.
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Final scenario 1
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Jack leaves her home for the work
Jack turns on the device before the work
Turn on through Wifi from Jacqueline
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Humidifying begins
Driving to her work
She enters her office
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Humidifier is already on before she comes to office
She started do her work
Enjoys her aroma therapy during the work
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It’s 1:15PM
Boon started to blink due to the high level of CO2
She opens the window to circulate the air
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It’s 2:55 PM
Continues aroma therapy during her work
She realizes Boon is running out of water
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She disassembles Boon to refill the water
She leaves the top part on the table
Jack walks towards the restroom
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She refills the water from the sink
Jack also realize that one of her essential oil is running low
She refills the essential oil
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Then put back the water tank onto the boon
She again turns on her preset aroma therapy
Continues aroma therapy during her work
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She wanted to share this scent with Daniel
Daniel got recipe through app
He wanted to try the scent.
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As he works, he enjoys the aroma therapy that Jack sent
It’s 6:30, time to leave!
Daniel leaves the work
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As Daniel leaves his work he meets with Jack
Daniel gives high five to Jacqueline for her great recipe.
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Final application
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Final application
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Daniel Kim dkimdesigns@gmail.com dkimdesign.com 206.419.6432
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