Wednesday, January 30, 2008

Project One: Iliana, Kristen and Miriam

Why is this interaction necessary?

- find store location

- minimize time searching for destination

-less confusion for customer

What are the items of interaction?

- person

-board :

- Plexiglas board (with back lighting)

- different colour categories

- alphabetical order with general headings of all stores

- levels of the mall

- legends and symbols

Where and when does the interaction start and finish?

START – The procedure begins with a shopper unable to find the location of a store. Then the shopper needs to find the map in order to proceed to their initial destination.

FINISH – Through observing the directions on the map, the shopper can then advance to store

PROS AND CONS

PROS

- Colour coordinated

- Lights up

- Large board

- Clean

- Grabs viewer’s attention

CONS

- Small print

- “You are Here” location is small making it difficult to notice

- Difficulty finding board locations

- No headings

- No labels on map diagram itself

- Escalator start and finish points hard to find

Improvements

- Larger font

- Directions/Arrows to locate maps faster

- Headings

- Touch screen the desired location and a track lights up from current location to the destination

- Bigger, horizontal shaped board

- Escalator locations emphasized

- Listing of stores on either side of the map, list alphabetical order and list of categorized order


1 comment:

Jesse Colin Jackson said...

Extensive observation, inappropriately concealed; Use of music perhaps appropriate but definitely distracting; Difficult topic, the deconstruction of which fails to account for the complex issues surrounding the mall experience; Plausible suggested improvements, derived from observation and deconstruction - but would they be implemented?