Design Project 0

This is the first design project for ME 313. It has to do with the overload of digital media we face in modern society and asks you to develop a potential product or experience solution to this issue.

I "mind-mapped" ideas about about my feelings about analog vs. digital photography.

Then I got to the root of the question which was,

"why do we even take a photo to begin with?"

I decided that we:

a) want to preserve our own memories and feelings, and

b) want to share these with others

My design solution was to tackle that initial moment when you take a photo, rather than deal with the aftermath. My "flick : slide : squeeze" camera:

1) captures the visceral response of the user and matches this to the importance of the photo (ie. the flick is a photo with little value, just a quick capture; whereas the squeeze is of utmost importance and, seeing as these "squeeze" photos will take up a lot of digital memory, the camera's squeeze mechanism records the accumu

lations of squeezes so that you are aware of your decisons. The "slide" photos fall between the flick and squeeze)

2) this device can be taken to different levels of specificity depending on the user

3) the images end up in different places- this saves time and makes it easier to share.