ZOID
The AI driven Google Home Assistant is already making life easy for its users who are deeply enticed by techno-realistic things. This project is an attempt to envision a future for the google assistant- A portable follow me where-ever I go assistant- Zoid! The project speculates a visual persona to Google’s smart home assistant.
“ZOID” is iterating the possibility of defining the face of your of google assistant and what benefits it could provide when it physically accompanies its users within their respective “smart homes”.
Type : User Research, User Interviews, Storyboarding
Design genre : Speculative Design
Duration : 4 weeks
Tools : Illustrator, SketchUp, Sketch
Organization: Pratt Institute, 2019
USER RESEARCH
I began the project by mapping my own usage around the google home in my own room which helped me understand the dos, the dont’s and the tasks for which I use my AI assistant on a day-to-day basis.
USER INTERVIEWS AND MAPPING
Conceptualization
the modified build
BUILDING SCenarios
The final phase of the project involved visualizing scenarios of assistance by Zoid to its user within various domestic environments. I used 3D modelling as a medium to demonstrate these illustrations
