State: excited http://p-i-t-a-r-a.blogspot.com/2008/03/so.html http://p-i-t-a-r-a.blogspot.com/2008/03/now-task-was-to-brainstorm-on-all-data.html http://p-i-t-a-r-a.blogspot.com/2008/03/doodle-understanding.html well ,the survey conducted resulted in various interesting results as the answers were in descriptive format. THE MIDDLE STAGE PART 1 State: very excited With all the results it did open, and gave a lot of ideas of what people could do with doodling Or rather make people do with doodling. Basically sort of creative games!!! Which i came up with, Now, I intended to do a desktop application , sort of Microsoft one note where u get to organize your notebook, here u get to select the sort of paper u want to doodle on say newspaper print, magazines, sand (if u doodle on this, it can't be saved)and so on. Basically trying to create the experience and a interface to just doodle. Apart from this you could go online and doodle. There were a lot of ideas when using the online feature but i personally wanted to do the following 5: Concept 1: Pictionary doodling 1 player doodles, the other one guesses in certain defined time and then the second player doodles and the 1st player guesses. A score card can be maintained. Use : it helps u know how good are you in a visual representation. Concept 2: Collaborative doodling This would be a maximum of 4 player game, where turn by turn players doodle on a same paper making it a single graphic element. Here, u can choose the paper u want doodle on or upload a file 9bkgrd image) on which you want to doodle on. Use: well u can create more creative graphics!!with more explorations of diff style on it. Concept 3: Theme doodling U can join a ongoing theme (topic) to doodle on. All doodlers will doodle on one particular theme. One is allowed to start their theme and doodle on it. Use: can be used for ideation purposes. Concept 4: Music doodling U can select a track (a song or a music piece) to doodle on. All doodlers will doodle on one particular track. Hence you'll be able to see how everyone doodles on the same track, a sort of a music and art relationship, like what people think when the hear a particular track. One is allowed to upload their track and doodle on it. Use: well doodling on music is supposed to be a creative exercise to free your mind. Concept 5: Story boarding U can movies out of your doodles by recording your voice ,while you doodle pause recording, draw, then record etc to create a sort of animation, a story. Use: story telling!!!! Duh.! THE MIDDLE STAGE PART 2 State: excited All this while a major issue was in my head that i am making people doodle on a comp, or even on separate product, is it feasible..i mean y would people doodle at all otherwise. Away from paper they would spend only 30% of the time on a comp or any other interface9if i was to think it as a diff product). SO NOW THE ISSUE WAS, whether this will lead to any software based solution that could truly contain the meaning of doodling. The moment you tend to introduce traditional UI elements to such a problem, it brings a lot of consciousness also from the user and that may defeat the purpose of doodling. Also, if i could create something which can be done only by doodling , and not be replaceable by another technique,so that it truly holds it..!!!! So from now on the focus was changed, doodling concept well would be best if remained on pen and paper. From this point on i targeted designers (read creative people) as the user group. Since my entire user study was also based on them. I now propose to use the livescribe technology, and develop a web application for it. This application would be a part of the livescribe online community. Details of the technology can be seen here, http://www.livescribe.com/smartpen/index.html http://www.livescribe.com/blog/index.php With use of this technology, now i propose a web application to handle all your saved doodles and basically solve a purpose for the designers to be using them. The basic purpose of a doodle for a designer is ideation. Hence i develop this application as an Ideation platform . A designer , needs to keeping this is mind , i now propose the following application. Note: only few screenshots have been made till now.!!! Not keeping the heuristics in mind,also this is not the final thing,just a quick mock up, u may find a lot of elements missing.!! My doodles link is where you organize your doodles,ie your own doodle pitara. Doodle pitara link is where the option of 3 concepts(for now) will be available which will be connecting ideas, making sense, building ideas(the names will be changed). Doodlers link is where you view doodlers profile and view their doodles maybe drop them a mail. Doodles i love link is where all your bookmarked doodles will be available for view. Symbols link is where all your tagged symbols and symbols tagged by others can be viewed.symbols as in say a face is drawn,it is a smiley for you. Help link is well help.!!!!!! MY DOODLES This page basically helps in categorizing, adding titles, description, tagging in short basically organizing your doodles. Next we go to, DOODLE PITARA This page preview is not available, from here we click on CONNECTING IDEA links which would look like the screen below. After clicking on connect ideas it would show all the doodles tagged with idea bulb in a connected form. The navigation part remains the same. MAKE SENSE LINK FROM DOODLE PITARA LINK(select page) Guess page After guessing,it would show what doodler thinks abt ddoodle on left pane and what other's who hv guessed d doodle think about the doodle,d bigger d font size more time tht word has been guessed. IDEAS TO BUILD PAGE Here the idea is to build over your ideasJ basically get reviews in the form of comments. How it works? You can specify on your doodle firstly, what's the idea you are talking about?.Then, specify the time this doodle will stay with a doodler and the time for it to reach back to you. Then click on the button send .the system randomly send this doodle to another doodler who can add a comment, doodle a comment, review the other comments made and then forward it further or send it back to you. I n any case the doodle will reach back to you in the time specified by you. In the next screen , Ideas i have recieved inbox specifies the ideas like in mail ordered by date and would also indicate the no. Of comments added to it which can be viewed in the navigation below around the doodle.from here the doodler can forward it or send it back Doodles i love page CURRENT STAGE State: excitement lost Clearly not satisfied so now, a little more question and addressing to issues of as to why and how, though with this concept a lot has been answer.!! validation or justification of the product can be done..!!! but still more explorations , conceptualization i feel is required. Now the question, Do you think not allowing, people to actually doodle in the system is actually a write thing to do? Or is it possible to add the earlier thought concepts as a games link in this system? Then what about the scope of the system? Or well think of it a totally different point of view and well come up with a different outlook altogether? Also, what about pattern recognition and doodle analysis? How and where do you think such a thing could be added. Some links like the following are available http://www.channelone.com/life/school/2003/10/07/doodle/ http://www.annakoren.com/doodles.html http://knowledge-advantage.com/Doodles/
THE BEGINING STAGE
Friday, April 4, 2008
The journey so far ......
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