Brainstorming!

We have now started sketching on possible layouts for our ecological interface. The work started with first defining all the requirements we have received from Anders (our supervisor) which the interface must fulfill, namely that:

• …it shall be dynamic
• …the information shall be analog rather than digital
• …it shall be integrated
• …it shall be ecological
• …it shall provide a good overview
• …it shall include basic usability aspects; such as ease of- understanding, and remembering etc.
  

In the next step we drew one sketch individually of a possible layout for the interface so that we later on could compare our ideas and thoughts. Some similarities were discovered right away which lead on to further discussions and collaborative work in order to find one, joint interface concept.

Brainstorming became the method we used in order to find new possible and innovative ways of showing the information. So first we performed brainstorming for determining design proposals on how to illustrate the distance of adjacent traffic. As soon as we had a fair amount of different proposals we then examined how well each one of them fulfilled the stated requirements.


















This was carried out by attaching post-its tags with the name of each requirement they fulfilled so that we easily could omit the inadequate proposals. The three best proposals will later on be included in the user tests.


















We also performed a brainstorm together with the post-its afterwards for determining how to visually illustrate the last warning before the auditory warning system take over.