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Visage | 2017 Second Year Project
CLIENT: Degree Project
SECTOR: Medical
DURATION: 2 Months
ROLE: Lead Product Designer
WHAT I DID: End-to-end Product Design:
Full Research
Ideation methodologies
Product Development
UX & UI Design
3D CAD
A short conceptual second-year project investigating how through the development of a new product, we can alleviate memory-loss symptoms associated with ageing and Alzheimer's disease.
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The final concept was a pair of smart-glasses designed with the elderly in mind. The glasses use fisherface algorithms and facial recognition technology to identify friends, family and carers of the user and give the user an audio note of the name of the person they are looking at to trigger memories with those with memory loss. The glasses also give the user reminders on things such as: when to take medication, when to care for pets and when to eat. This is to ensure users stick to their routines and on-track with their daily lives. Audio notes are given to the user through bone-conduction drivers mounted on the arms of the glasses.
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Visage smart-glasses are designed to be set up and actively monitored by the carer or family member to the user via the smart-phone application. The Visage smart-glasses are designed with the elderly in mind to be as less obtrusive as a conventional pair of reading glasses.
System Architecture
Mobile Application
Mobile UI
Wireframing
UX Wireframing
LO-FI, Low Risk
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In order to understand what features would be included in the smartphone app, it was vital to ensure potential users had a say in what would be required of the product, but also had a say in how the design looked, felt and functioned.
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The prototyping worked through the fidelities of user interface design from paper sketches, through to balsamiq mockups (as shown to the right) through to UI mockups designed on Photoshop and animated using InVision. Each level of fidelity was tested with user groups until all creases in the design were ironed out.
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