The earth under our sight will never finish. Simply because even we’ll be able to turn it all, everything could change. What it is called final prototype, it’s just a beta version for us. More than the first months, in the final weeks we have realized that we came back to the first idea of the waves.
Prototyping
A wave is never squared. For this reason the aethetical shape should be more appropriate. An other improvement is to change the present mechanism for moving the carriage. We know that is effective for the main purpose, but it is too noisy in spite of all the solutions. For example, a slow plotter with just one axes could be the best solution. Meanwhile the magnetic repulsion is very simple and fully running. About feedback we also thought to change the led colour, but we are not sure how much immediately the user understands.
User experience
Needs have to be invented, not just followed. This phase requires a lot of work. A simple interface and the scenario are the starting point for our aims. What we realized was the user reaction to the idea, magically unexpected. After pushing the message, you have to wait the reply for sending another one. Nevertheless the shape and the material of our float could be open for further developments.
photo: http://www.dynamicmarching.com/custom/waves.jpg
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