Design Project 1 | Prototype Work In Progress

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From the last prototyping session, I got the following insights/feedback:

• Priority rankings:
• 2 users ranked them as money, sustainability, location, time
• 1 ranked as sustainability, money, location, time
• 1 ranked as money, time, sustainability, location
• 1 ranked as money, sustainability, time, location
• the spread of priorities affirms that we cannot assume what matters most to people; it is a valuable input to measure
• some expressed that aesthetics should also be a measure (maybe on-trend?)
• some also expressed that the location metric was not clear — do we mean where it was made? where it is being sold from?
• also life cycle. . . how long is the product going to last?
• Solutions chosen:
• 2 chose medium
• 3 chose low impact
• multiple users expressed that the green lables of “low impact” solutions made them more likely to choose it
• other users expressed that the language of “high, medium, and low impact” solutions was confusing. . . would be beneficial to rephrase
• Would you follow the directions provided?
• some said yes, even if they were offline
• most said they were really only likely to act on it if there was a link provided

Plan for Tuesday

• Make new metrics
• Location
• Supports local economy
• Where product was made
• Sustainability
• sustainable materials
• low carbon footprint
• life cycle
• Ethics of business practices
• Aesthetics/whats on trend
• Make metrics shown on product options clearer (i.e., specific dollars, tons of carbon, years it will last)
• Keep color coding!! green = good
• Shifting language of the solutions
• Positive impact - sources locally, promotes sustainability, goes above carbon nuetral
• Nuetral impact - net neutral, status-quo, conflicting factors balance out
• Negative impact - large carbon footprint, poor business factors, multiple negative factors