Connect Ring Video + Feedback

The above video is my submission for the first assignment! For someone with no previous video and/or editing skills I was quite impressed with my attempt. Because of my lack of skills I focused on exactly what the concept is and tried to communicate that clearly.

To get around my lack of video skills I drew a lot of the aspects of my concept. This idea was actually influenced by the Google Docs in Plain English video - simple yet effective. After drawing them I transferred them into adobe illustrator and just converted them to outlines - from this I just transferred them into photoshop. To my surprise photoshop was actually quite effective and easy to use! Unfortunately I don't have any photos of my original drawings anymore to blog here (I smashed my phone just this week - sigh).

The feedback that I got about Connect Ring was quite vague. I have since realised that I should have been prepared with a series of questions and some sort of testing approach...
The feedback that I did receive though was quite positive and a lot of my peers found the humour in the concept and said that it would actually be helpful to keep track of their drunk friends.

Some of the things that people mentioned to improve the concept was:

• How do two users connect/what is the physical interaction/is there an alert tone? Two people mentioned these questions...Callum was one of the two and he was helping me to start think about physical interactions for further prototypes and Makey Makey.
• There is similar technology already being developed by other companies/students alike and to consider looking at their products in preparation for design and development.
• The quality of the video was good and the drawings were simplistic and easy to understand. In some cases the audio was a little bit difficult to understand.
• One user mentioned that they like the background song.
• Another user mentioned that this concept is quite novelty and though it would be fun would people continue to use a product like this?

For the next stage I will prototype the interface and perhaps how users can drop a pin...Mayi linked me to a great tutorial for how to draw a triangle with actionscript but I think it could be a little bit advanced for me...

Also, here is my Statement of Delivery for the Connect Ring video: