I AM ANY DEVICE!
All journeys begin with an unknown end. Each journey’s start is a canvass where the protagonist who must undertake the voyage has to paint the picture or write the story of that quest. I am, everything, of humane or inanimate experiments – the beginning and the end. I can mold, sense, improvise and hold, an ocean full of data, images and perhaps control this entire ecosystem. I might be a piece of paper right now, but I AM be every device you hold, scroll over, sit on and interact with, only if you want me to.
“I am any Device” is an exploration of Object Oriented Ontology which investigates my MFA Thesis (Cohort of the “SMART”) by using methodologies and mediums of visual language. Here, a piece of paper is seen as any device that a user interacts with which helped me gain a better understanding of the usability and associations of “smart” home systems.
Type : Interactive Print Piece
Design genre : User Experience Design
Duration : 4 weeks
Tools : Illustrator, Photoshop, Premier Pro
Organization: Pratt Institute, 2019
EXPLORING THE FORM
The first step was to investigate the form of paper by instructing a set of tasks that I could perform on a piece of paper bound by a set of rules and constraints.
Introducing a context of use
I started interacting with this device in different spaces and used it for different purposes
Involvement of users
The final outcome
I presented the final outcome of my study in the form of a newspaper which I named - “The Device-Ion Times”. Well, metaphorically, the evolution of the “smart” has been a bigger boom in the last two decades as opposed to the print revolution in 1440. The “smart” ecosystem is slowly invading human lives and our smart devices like the newspapers (back then) is becoming our primary source of information.
The form also added a layer of interaction for the users when they were viewing and “connecting” with my product.
