Nokia
Crowd movement destination visualiser for city planners.
Summary.
This one is meant for city planners who can optimise routes , traffic signalling and other infrastructure by seeing crowd movement on a map.
I did the UX and concept design work here, trying to work out what to do with the anonymous data that cellular towers see.
This app is meant to be used on iPads and allow quick interaction while walking on the streets.
The functionality & my role
Cellular networks are used as the data source here by polling them to pinpoint where anonymous dots on the map start their journey and where they end up.
I did the stakeholder interviews, desk research, concept design and wires.
The joy of hex.
Using hexagons and a restrictred, but modern colour palette we created a contemporary look and feel to the Destination Count module.
When the hexagons are slightly apart, it gives each small area in the map a distinct feel that separates it from it’s neighbours and subtly gives the user the hint that this is something to interact with.
The hexagon as a shape is both iconic and familiar, boasting a sense of direction in more than four ways and it’s use in games denotes interactivity.
The clock.
Using a simple clock we can limit the data shown on the to a specific time, in this example the wee hours after midnight.
A tap on any hexagon reveals the exact or approximate number that travelled from location.
The wireframes.
Entire project was based on engineer interviews and I had very little time to prove the validity of user interactions. We wanted to keep all interactions very simple and show the map as large as possible for the planners to make their decisions without distractions.
Intel
Social navigation and calendar mash-up for Tizen
Summary & my role.
I did a bunch of explorative projects for Intel, where we tried to find new ways of interacting with computers and phones.
These were all concepts that were realised but never released to the public.
Intel was about to launch Tizen OS to the world and wanted the built-in apps to have a different flair to them.
I worked closely with Intel’s R&D team to create this mash-up of contacts, messages, calendar and navigation in a single app.
We did some initial research with users to determine what sort of functionality they would like to see if we could merge navigation with their contacts.
The biggest and most obvious user group here were people who might work in sales where they have to meet people through out the day in various locations.
Points-of-interests on the map correspond to the functionality of the app. Your appointments, the people you know and share their location as well as your known places are shown on the map.
The app calculates your optimal routes and tells you how much time you can spend at each location, if you have multiple events planned for the day.
Tapping on the POIs will open a radial menu around it with correspnding actions.
If the user taps on ‘Me’ then all the actions that are for you will pop-up.