project pivot The previous work on developing Amber, evaluating it with the design brief and project vision shed new light on the core values of the project. The decision was made to pivot the project direction to ensure a shared experience of planning and engagement in interaction. Focus was directed towards moving away from previous concepts centred on having a central hub for shared awareness. Instead, emphasis was placed on developing interdependent personal devices that would add value to the individual user, but would require a collaborative effort of more users and devices in order to plan family events. It was also Important to create a more human-centric planning tool with regards to interaction, and to challenge the required level of details needed when planning. To create the right mindset the “Minimal Viable Product” (MVP) method was applied to get new insights on a minimalistic way of planning (Klein, 2013).
Fig.7: Intermediate concept
Sketching on these parameters led the process through two iterations. The first concept consisted of personal handheld devices that had a screen on the top surface. The general idea was to keep track of your personal agenda on this device, but to input shared events, the devices would need to connect physically and be slid up/down and sideways on a flat surface to choose type of event and day (Figure 7).
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