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What's happened recently
It’s been a while since the last update and a few things have happened. I’ll try to keep it short: 1. Great news: the Spotify Box won an IxDA Award in the Disrupting category! This is not b...
Help us with the People's Choice IxDA Awards 2012
We’re really happy that the Spotify Box has been selected finalist for the IxDA Awards 2012. The winners will be announced at the Interaction12 conference in Dublin next week. In the meantime, ...
A few updates on the project
It’s been a few months and a lot of things happened. Now that I’ve finally settled in Chicago, I do have more time to continue working on this. After presenting the project at Spotify in St...
More high-res pictures and a few updates
I’ve taken a few more high-res shots of the device with better light. All the pictures have been added to the same Flickr set I’ve been using before: From paper to final prototype . Now tha...
A few notes about the project
The project got a lot of buzz during the last days after Creative Applications and TechCrunch wrote about it. I’m flattered about all the feedback and really glad that people like the project...
Final pictures and display tests
Tomorrow is the examination day. I have been busy updating the final report, tomorrow’s presentation and tweaking the last details for the demo I will be showing. The error messages are now dis...
UI finished and packaging almost done too
It’s been less than a month since the last update. One month ago I was finishing the workflows for the UI and its wireframes. Now the UI is 100% finished. I worked hard on finding a way of not ...
Workflows and wireframes
Okay, at this point I have the different workflows that have to be refined. To make things a bit more clear, keep this in mind: each device has a unique serial number, and that serial number is s...
From paper to final prototype
For the past weeks I’ve been mostly working on the final container for the device. It’s been three weeks of work moving from the breadboard sketch to a handmade PCB. Unfortunately, I’ve had...
Halfway presentation
On wednesday we had the mid presentation to update Niklas Andersson and Kent Lindheberg, our programme leader and tutor, with the current status of the project. So far, everything is on track. ...
User tests and form workshop
This week I’ve been testing the prototype with a few people to decide what functions are necessary or not, what to tweak… So far, we all agreed on having VOLUME, PREVIOUS AND NEXT/PREVIOUS T...
Directions update
It’s been five weeks since we started working on this and there have been a few direction changes. This post summarizes the different thoughts around it. 1. EXPLORING DIFFERENT WAYS OF INTERA...
First hardware sketch
Yesterday I just finished building the first hardware sketch. It took 6 days of work and at this moment I can control Spotify with an Arduino and an RFID reader. Each RFID tag can be assigned to ...
Research gate and directions
On wednesday we had the research gate presentation and together with Niklas Andersson (Programme Leader) and Kent Lindbergh (external advisor) we went through the results of the surveys and the f...
Survey overview
Yesterday we had the research gate presentation and we mostly discussed the results of the surveys. 45 people completed the survey and there are some interesting patterns. The next step is now ob...
Workshop license, surveys and interviews
During the past days I’ve been a bit busy in the workshop. I joined a four days course for being able to use the lathes and milling machines in the school workshop, so I’m slightly behind sch...
Time planning
This is a first draft of the planning of the project. The planning will probably be updated after I’m done with the research. At the moment this is a rough time plan for the next month and a ...
What is this all about?
I am an Interaction Design student at the Umeå Institute of Design and this is going to be the work log of my degree project. During the next semester I’ll be working on different concepts rel...