After reviewing on our interviews with Tony and Steve, we have evaluated our goals again for initial development on our designs. We had ‘to support residents, organisations and businesses in Jesmond in adopting a more energy efficient approach to their current consumption patterns.’ as our initial ultimate goal, and this does not change.
With the details of what the client want in the energy dashboard we are going to developed, we tried to do some more in depth research on different dashboards as examples for us to get an idea on our initial design. Each of us brought in an example of an energy dashboard we found on the internet and indicate what is the pros and cons of every single detail of it, hoping to pull all the best things about each dashboard together to create the most suitable one for Jesmond. There were examples from America, Lincoln University and other companies, each has a different feature depending on the building it serves (eg. university campus, accommodation, commercial building etc)
However, we would still need different datas from the stakeholders in Jesmond in the future for further development. We would also need to decide on creating an app or a webpage for the Jesmond residents based on which one we think would allow more people to look at it constantly and conveniently.
Hi team, continuing on from your last post, it’s nice to see you relate to the interviews and user research you have been doing. I encourage you to expand on your reflections and introduce further nuances to your goals. For example in you past post you mentioned awareness and understanding is key. So you could reflect more deeply whether this was in fact a goal that you’re realised existed at the beginning of the project. What does awareness and understanding mean, by whom, what does it mean for your project? etc…
This then leads on to your example and inspiration search, which is really just an extension to your background research. We are trying to sample novel ideas from elsewhere (literature, other projects). They may be interesting engagement techniques, user interface elements, designs, business models. The goal is to see what has already been done elsewhere and how your project can learn, improve, be different. In this regard, perhaps try to expand with introduction of more detail as to what examples you looked at and why. We also provided good number of examples in the seminar in week 5 that you could take up and reflect on. In the log you’d ideally discuss what this meant for your team. How did this review subsequently influence your chosen concept design.