Ideation Phase
The ideation phase is where each member of the group comes up with different ideas based on the challenge that they we given. There were three different challenges that the specific user was encountering: a Reminder to track time problem, a Hip problem, and a Mental problem.
This ideation is about a energy stones where, the colored stones are considered as energy points, which is used to track the person's energy and each color represent how much energy a task is excepted to take, such as pink is 1 and blue is 5. Second idea was a robot pet, which is a bit out of the scope but this supposed to keep track of used energy. Also, the energy jar works almost same as the energy stones.
This idea is a bag pack that functions as a normal bag and as a chair. since the client loves to cycle this product could help with resting if the fatigue takes over.
This Panel is just to show how will the tiredness be represented on the watch, smiley face is full energy and crying face is the lowest and when it hits the rock bottom it will vibrate to remind the user to take rest.
This panel is talking much more about what to do while using the energy stones and the jar, first energy mapping, were it is a mind map of activities with and how much energy it takes to do these activities. For the jar idea, the person can write a reflection or a logbook to reflect on how many stones were take away. However, then we came up with simpler solution creating a bracelet with the energy stones to make it simpler. Every time the person feel tried or finish an activity they can push the bead to the other side, which would help to track the energy levels.
These ideas above have the same goal as the energy stones and the bracelet - keep track of time and remind of rest, but this time one of the ideas is a lamp that can be displayed on the desk, which moves as time passes. The second idea was a watch that represent amount of energy that the person has in a fun way by using facial expressions.
Concepts
These are the three concepts that were presented to the client:
This a low-fidelity prototype of the energy bracelet. It was chosen to be one of the concepts because the idea itself was original and has a good way of regulating energy and finding time to rest. There are supposed to be different colored beads, but for the prototype only two different ones were used. This prototype was created just to present the idea to the potential user, in a more clear way than a drawing (together with a low-fidelity prototype of a watch concept).
This is the chair-bag idea, where the bag can be converted into a chair. The reason for coming up with this idea, was to provide Anne with a product that she could use outside to rest anywhere, as she loves to go outside, and it could help her relief the fatigue at any time.
This is a low-fidelity prototype of the watch that was mentioned above. As it is demonstrated above, the watch has a character where the facial expression changes with time.