Posts Tagged ‘Disney’

Set the Level High…The Disney Project!

Posted in Design, Technology on 04/02/2008 12:29 am by uxmelina

So as you may have known, for my 3B design project, my team and I set out to enter the Disney Imagineering Design competition. The design space was an idea I had, to look into the use of interactive surface display systems in line ups to combat the boring, often long wait times. The team was great, we were all very strong in complementary skills with a high interest in user experience design….and we can’t forget our fearless leader, Professor Stacey Scott, she was great!

I will post under “Design” sometime soon, the full problem space and more details about the solution including the amazing UI that was prototyped by Wayne and I in Flash, with visual design done by Amanda and Katie! Until then, here is a promo video that we made to promote Systems Design Engineering featuring some of the project highlights!

[googlevideo=http://video.google.ca/videoplay?docid=7794774378121314806]

The Point.

Posted in Design, Personal, Random on 01/23/2008 12:16 am by uxmelina

The main reason I started this blog was to write about the thing I LOVE the most in school, my design projects! In Systems Design the class gets pretty open ended design projects pretty early in the program. We are free to pick the problem, design a solution, build a prototype, etc. I am really excited about this term, because my team is a really strong group of people who are all very interested and skilled in user experience design.

So what’s the project? Well, we are very pumped to be entering Disney’s ImagiNation Design Competition. The competition encourages students or new grads from all around the world to design, build or create anything they think will enhance any of Disney’s many facets. This is a competition, therefore blogging about the design well before its submitted probably isn’t smart. The risk of reducing the “wow” when it’s finally presenting may not jive well with my other teammates. So, you won’t be hearing about this project until sometime after the March 7th deadline! My apologies. But fear not! We design other things in my program, including a software user interface for the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) program. I will introduce that project and explain more in my next post!