Week 4 Final design exploration and improvment

In this week, I did more research about my concept, and found some problems, so I decide to make some changes for my concept detail.

Firstly, I found that my audience was anyone and it’s inappropriate, because a product can be used by anyone, but the audience is who are we designing this concept for, so my audience should match the concept’s purpose. Furthermore, I found some potential audience which conclude from research.

First one is someone who love travel, such as tourists, because they have more opportunities to know what happened to the place or what the place look like, so they can post more related image to the website.  Second one is young people or teenage, because they more likely to share things based on where they live, and also they can learn more knowledge about different things from different place, rather than only focus on their friend circles [1].

Secondly, I asked myself, why I use images as basic source of my concept. According to my research, Internet users more interested in something that have visual appeal, because it can attract attention, creates a first impression, Build relationships and affects emotions. And image is one of the visual appeal element [2].

Today, there are lots of image-based social media web site or applications, such as Instagram. They have some common features. For example, they provide a platform to allow people sharing things and try to connect people together, no matter where they are [3]. But what if someone want to make connection to specific place, or find some interesting things from a specific location. So, I came up with an idea, which is “the window of the world”, it’s basically a geolocation-based image sharing website

The purpose of my concept is extend people’s visual field, the site lets you get a better idea of any area in the world by viewing images that shared by others. Also to let them find interesting things rather than waiting someone share to them.

For the functions part, I add more details and make the concept easy to understand.

Here is how the concept works, my website provides a world map, the map can be Google map or just photo map, and the map divide into equal squares, user can click each square, then the related images will show on right side of the screen, user can click these images and check or post comments. If user want adds more related image to that place and share with others, they can use search bar to search images and the result will directly come from Trove by using Trove Web API. So user can drag image into specific place which present by squares.

User can zoom in and out on the map to find information about more precise location. User also allowed to search the location by input its name, it’s may be a city or park, even a building. Also they can use computer or mobile devices to access this website.

Reference:

[1] Justin, L. (2015). STUDY: Young People More Likely To Use Social Media in Developing Countries. Retrieved from

http://www.adweek.com/socialtimes/study-young-people-more-likely-to-use-social-media-in-developing-countries/617242

[2] Sabina, I. (2014). Visual Appeal vs. Functionality in Web Design. Retrieved from

http://blog.usabilla.com/visual-appeal-vs-functionality-web-design/

[3] Top 10 Image-Based Social Media Sites. (n.d.). Retrieved from

https://www.webmaster.net/social-media/top-10-image-based-social-media-sites-0.html

Here is my final version of poster 

I decided divide the poster into three different part, first is inspiration, mainly talk about what is the issue and the purpose of my concept. Second part is about the audience, for the pitch, I will explain two different audiences and give the reason why I targeting them. Third part is about the interactivity and functions, for the pitch I will explain who the concept works and the poster is for shows some visual component, such as interface.