Quick Sprint:
Rapid Ideation - Inner Life
Overview
What is it?
Inner Life, a phone app that integrates with Google Maps and allows you to write private notes only you can read attached to a location, encouraging you to document your life and inviting reflection.
Skills used
Brainstorming
Ideas mash up
Agile methodologies
Figma
Presentation
Timeline
1 week
Solo project
Sole designer and
project manager
Context
We were given the theme ‘Moon’ and challenged to come up with something in response to it in a short time frame, the focus was on ideation and exploration.
Ideation
This project focused heavily on exploration of concepts in the paper thinking / prototyping phase.
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First brainstorms of the project revealed themes that interested me which I then took through a Mash Up technique to see what interesting combinations came out of it.
​Several ideas interested me so I decided to adapt the pomodoro technique and flesh each out over a short time (5 mins per idea) to see which interested me the most out of them all.
The winning idea was Inner Life, a mash up between ideas around privacy and orientation / maps. Due to the short sprint time this was taken directly through to the build phase.
Prototype
Due to the short time frame and focus on ideation and exploration there was only one build of the app.
Challenges and Takeaways
The focus was paper prototyping but I had a hard time at first narrowing my interests into a single idea to follow. The technique of sketching out several ideas to see which was the most interesting and discovering the limitations of the challenge so that I was anchored in what was needed were what unblocked me, and it meant that the build phase went extremely smoothly.
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I also suddenly had to take care of my father in hospital during this challenge, this forced me to simplify the design to the essentials which proved to be beneficial as the app was more intuitive when I shared it with my peers.