Saturday, 21 April 2007

Final assignment - Paper prototype (Back-post)

There was no class presentation this week so we simply demoed our paper prototype as well as user testing results to Mr Reddy during class. Our design had some issues with the functionality of interface as well as the rather cryptic labelling of different sections. These had to be ironed out later on, before the final prototype was developed.

I was responsible for creating the actual Kneon products themselves including the labelling and photography of the different coloured bottles. I had problems creating the labels for the bottles due to the uneven-ness of using silver spray paint on a transparency-based stencil. Mr Reddy gave me some good advice on how this could be done properly with the right kind of sticky masking paper. I ended up printing out the labels on sticker paper and painstakingly cutting them out so they could be used as stencils. Once applied to the bottles and with rest of the bottle properly wrapped up with saram-wrap, the spray painting was carried out. The results were not perfect but still better than the previous approach. The photography of the bottles was also rather time consuming due to the need to set up and adjust the various lights (up to 3 sources) needed to achieve the right sort of moody lighting effects required.

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