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Design Overview 01

Design

01 Overview

During our focus group, we learned which needs and concepts were appreciated by seniors as well as those that were strongly disliked. With this information, we designed our final concept with some of the successful aspects of our test concepts in mind. By honing the concept carefully, we were able to address the following needs with one design:

  • Save time and space
  • Stimulate conversation
  • Tie music to existing activities
  • Facilitate music/memories connection

The following components were adapted to our final concept from the test concepts:

  • Music Mark
    • Entire collection in one compact location
  • Musical Florist
    • Aesthetic integration with home
    • Simple playlist creation
  • Musical Memories
    • Facilitating the musical association with memories

IID 2005 . Human-Computer Interaction Institute . Carnegie Mellon University