Reinventing the Sticky Note Workshop
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The document details a workshop focused on reinventing the sticky note, emphasizing the need to understand its value and context in use. Participants are encouraged to consider the original purpose of sticky notes and how to solve existing problems through redesign. Key considerations include user goals, environment, and whether new inventions enhance the user experience or detract from it.
Reinventing the Sticky Note Workshop
- 1. Reinventing the Sticky Note - Workshop @ThinkVera www.ThinkVera.com
- 2. When was the last time you used a sticky note? • Write down something that you need to remember today. • Now hide the sticky note somewhere.
- 6. Capturing the VALUE of a timeless tangible item! Not just the looks...
- 7. Re-Invent • Re-make • Makeover • Bring to use again • Re-do • Redesign • Remodel
- 8. Workshop Goals • Examine the process of reinventing a tangible item • Capturing meaning and purpose of the item • Understanding the context and the environment in which the user will use the item
- 9. In one word describe what makes sticky notes useful – what is it about them that makes them valuable?
- 10. Is it just an IMITATION? skeuomorphism
- 11. Before you reinvent… • What problem are you solving? • What device and operating system does it make sense to build for?
- 12. What are some drawbacks of a sticky note? What do you wish you could do with it?
- 13. Meaningful Beyond elegant design - • Are you incorporating the passion and purpose the original item embodied?
- 14. When using sticky notes: • What is the goal of the user? • What is your favorite part about sticky notes?
- 15. Context and Environment • In which environment are users going to use it in? • What location and can you leverage it? • Are they in a hurry?
- 16. When do you find it difficult to use sticky notes?
- 17. Is your app invention a burden or does it enhance user experience? • Does the purpose of the app reflect what the original purpose of the tangible item was? • How much attention is required to use it?
- 18. Capturing the VALUE of a timeless tangible item! Not just the looks...
- 19. Looking at the entire picture
Editor's Notes
- #6: http://www.behance.net/gallery/Sticky-Storm/7268331
- #8: Its not just some great thing that happened, there are many people investigating now and those who understand why it is the way that it is.
- #9: Who can think of other examples of tangible items that have been reinvented?
- #13: http://mobile.tutsplus.com/tutorials/mobile-design-tutorials/context-circles-in-mobile-design/Mobile Tuts+ Context Circles in Mobile Design – Physical, Technological, Social.
- #21: Background on MiiR Model.Engine behind social media includes psychology and principles of human behavior.MiiR Model – Designing for the World.
- #22: Who can think of other examples of tangible items that have been reinvented?