GEMINI - A GESTURAL UI FOR ALL-DAY WEARABLES
WoZ Protopes
Our team leveraged Wizard of Oz experiements as often as possible to learn quickly via quick, hacky, prototypes, without the need for development resources.
Often we would create soundboards in Keynote in which we could select and play for the research participant via their connected audio device, helping to simulate our desired experience and test them for resonance.
These initial prototypes were to see if real time acceptance and retrieval of information from some of our most uses applications would be valuable. Services we explored — Slack, Microsoft Outlook, Spotify, Foursquare, Accuweather, SMS, NYTimes.
EMPRIMENTING WITH UI OPTIONS
Sound Design
We got to work with our long time collaborators at Audio UX (https://auxnyc.com/). Together we landed on a set of tones that were percussive and textural. We focus on making sure they were bright, warm, simple, and brief. The opening of the menu is a 4 not gesture, representing the unpacking of the UI elements.
User Research
