Hivemind

Problem

Duration: 1 month

The High Line Park is filled with unique and beautiful plant lives that deserve exploration and attention. Unfortunately, there are no signs to provide a fuller experience to visitors. Family and children overlooked the opportunity to connect and explore with the environment. They are disengaging and often feel bored shortly.

Hivemind fills that gap while connecting explorers with social engagements.

Group: Jean Chang | Alison Williams | Sydnie Wittenberg

My Role: Idea generation, Storyboarding, Wire Framing, Prototyping, Brand Application, UI Design, Visual Design, User Testing, Interaction Design, Stakeholder Presentation.

Method/Tool: BlendSpace Interaction Design, InVision, Illustration, Photography, Color Paper, Scissors, Pencil, Camera, Note Book. InDesign, and Color Pencil.

persona

I was doing a direct observation while I was walking around High Line Park. I found many people walking around but no one talking or making friends with each other. Many teenagers were staying with their cell phones, or they just walked around longly. High Line Park was a boring place that there was nothing fun for them to stay.

Brinstorming

Many inspirations are coming out when we are brainstorming. The history of High Line, the art that created in the park, the train terminal under the bridge, and the gardening that we saw around us. They all became our inspirations.

SToryboard

Timothy is a shy kid. He is a computer geek and love taking picture. However, he doesn’t know how to socialize with others.

One day he discover a unique looking flower in the park.

The app turn on, Timothy received a virtual seed.

The app told Timothy that he is a water but he needs to find people with other elements such as oxygen, sunlight, and soil.

The app show him where he can find other people with elements on the map.

Timothy start looking for people.

Timothy’s phone vibrating while someone pass by him.

The notification showed they found the next elements of their collection.

Timothy start the conversation with first stranger named Lisa and found out her element.

After they exchange elements, Timothy’s seed start growing.

Timothy and John find more people with other element.

Timothy’s plant growing very fast and soon become a flower.

The app shows what virtual flower Timothy grew and give more information of the flower.

The app shows the location of the real flower and encourage people to find it.

Timothy and his friend start looking for the real flower.

They exchange and share picture through app.

Here is the picture of real flower and Timoth’s new friends.

Logo

Hivemind is an app that can grow a virtual flower while you made friend in the High Line Park. Therefore, I use flower as a logo. It was inspired with one of the flowers that growth in High Line Park named the Black Eye Susan.

Wire Frame

When we made the storyboard, we discussed how the mobile app would look like. Then, I spend a quiet afternoon using it as a draft to create a simple app from InVision and illustration.

Flower Stem

This was a flower stem that was purposely used for this project. This flower was inspired by one of the flowers that grew in High Line Park named the Black Eye Susan. This flower stem would place in the garden like the rest of the art collection. With a QR code in the middle of the flower, people can scan it and start downloading the Highmind app in the High Line.

Mobile app

Hivemind is an app that can assist people in gaining more knowledge of plants in parks and making new friends by collecting all elements that need to grow virtual plants in the mobile app.

You gain a seed

Gain the seed from the game.

The element you need

The element you need to grow the seed.

Find the element

You can find the elements in the map.

Find the flower

The map will show you where is the real flower is.

My picture

You can take picture with real flower and your new friends together.

My albums

The albums will save all of good memory you and your friends have by growing the flower together.

Click Here to test it in InVision

Learning

It is a summer workshop. It was very challenging because we had very limited time. However, our team made it! My team and I were happy with our successful outcome! We worked very hard as a team and far and beyond with the project. We are not only the first team to complete the project, but we also have the prototype and mobile app during our presentation. Of course, we had a very successful night during the presentation. Throughout this project, I learned time management and nothing we can't do as long as we work as a team.

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