Introduction
Team Cosmos
- Joseph Iloreta, Interaction Design
- Sook Yeon Kim, Interaction Design
- Bridget Lewis, Physics and Human-Computer Interaction
Our team conceived of Cosmos, an editable, shareable map designed for the mobile phone use in the context of traveling and tourism.
Engaging in user research (directed storytelling & think-alouds), persona and scenario creation, iterative prototyping and refinement, we addressed several design issues in the conception of our mobile application:
- Finding a tourist-oriented need for use in the mobile-context
- Information display on a small screen (176x208 pixels)
- Jumping highlight navigation (feedforward and feedback)
- Mapping information hierarchy to persona and scenario (gaining information from and adding information to the system)
- Influence of Context on use (wandering and tourist planned traveling)
This process book encapsulates our design process and the final product composed of a persona developed from our user research, a scenario that illustrates use of the application in a situation with our persona, and additional features of Cosmos.