Fingerprint of Change

Fingerprint of Change was an exploration around Six Sigma data and visualization

Brooklyn Bridge: A Study Of Space and Semiotics

On two separate occasions, a cool fall evening and a warm afternoon, we spent several hours in our space, the Brooklyn Bridge, exploring the contextual and visual elements of the social interaction between the varying groups. 

The function of the bridge is to get people from point A to the other side, point B. Depending where you start that could be either, Manhattan or Brooklyn.

We noticed that there are two literal groups, the walkers and the bikers, that divide up the function of the bridge into a system of social mobility. This information was based on the semiotics of the location. However, the tourists would often wander back and forth to each side of the bridge completely ignoring the symbols meant to provide a safe experience for all. Therefore allowing potential accidents between bikers and pedestrians.

Thus we opted to introduce an interface as a performance on the bridge that emphasizes the divide between the walkers and the bikers, to make people more aware of the two lanes. Our intended audience would be the people who walk or bike on the bridge everyday.

The performance itself consisted of physical movements emphasizing the two lanes and even demonstrating in rhythmic movements who should be where. Towards the end of the movements we would pull out signage with the symbols of the biker and walker and use them within the performance to create a rather “in your face” sort of experience.

Out first prototype performance was given on Friday morning at 11 am. At this time the bridge was quite crowded with several tourists, runners, walkers, and bikers all trying to cross the bridge. We began our performance and as we did we noticed that people would stop and watch, take pictures, correct us if the signage was wrong, move to the correct side of the bridge, stop and ask questions, some even asked about the third group some might call the runners, and yet even others would simply be amused by our antics. We even caught Adam Sandler on the bridge, who waved and smiled as he drove by with a film crew, from filming “Click” earlier that morning.

Patient Communication

Acupuncture Communication is a project which facilitates communication between patients and doctors through the means of building data that both the patient and doctor add to the database.

Little Brother Security Training Systems

Little Brother Training Systems is a system to help you train your employees on the security systems and operations of a jewelry store. It would work by allowing a senior member of the team to be a “Big Brother” to more junior members.  These junior members would wear video recording equipment which would create podcasts of their training which they could log in and view time and time again. This system should increase the efficiency of training overall.

An exploration of business and design

Constructing Worlds is an exploration of the cross-section of design and business.

This project was meant to pair technology (a piece of paper), a system (an instruction set), and a context (a fictional world). Using a three stage process (analysis, interpretation, transformation) we had to first analyze the properties of a particular instruction set as a way to learn as much as we could about that system.

Due to my background in business I struggled with this project and couldn’t quite grasp how to approach it or even where to start. Thus I decided to approach it from two angles. I first approached it from the business analyst angle taking a basic stereotype and transforming it into the various stages an analyst might go through if the system was a corporation or even a system build for a corporation. This freed my mind to explore other possibilites and thus I was able to analyze it more from a design side later in the project. In fact, one study exists in the corner of this web site.