Ever work with someone and they ask you to design something ‘fun’? First off, I love designing fun experiences, but then again, I’ve never been asked to design a painful experience - 90s era web pages not withstanding. Today, when presented with that challenge, my first response is always, “help me understand what you mean by fun”.
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I'm studying concepts and executions behind the elements of conversational interfaces. This is work I've done with past clients and companies yet it's been a bit of a challenge to explain the breadth of conversational interfaces in terms of understanding how humans act, before, during and after using the product.
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I'm amazed at how designers don't throw themselves into a wall. This task was daunting and far more complex than I anticipated. For my task, I wanted to concept something around SolFox, a small startup I'm advising. While the content and the product content hasn't been fleshed out, the theme is using data to discover a deeper story about your customers, without spending much time in doing so.
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We were asked to create a visual hierarchy for what amounts to a twitter clone. My original thought was to look at what others have done for train-of-thought social sites, but this time around I wanted to hold off on exploration. My goal was to build as much as I could given my inspirations, and then if I got stuck I could poke around on other people's ideas.
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I've always appreciated good design, but I've always wanted to actually design the designs. Much like karaoke, what I envision in my mind isn't exactly what comes out. I've bought numerous sketchbooks, fancy felt pens and a couple drawing tutorials, but I'm usually discouraged by the presence of permanent ink.
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