Award: Best System Design at the Microsoft Design Expo
Team Mine from NYU ITP wins Best System Design at the 2013 Microsoft Research Faculty Summit as part of the Design Expo […]
Mine
Mine was a project for the NYU ITP Design Expo class taught by Clay Shirky. It was presented at the 2013 Microsoft Research Faculty Summit as part of “Design Expo – Making Data Useful: Improving Your Life, Community, and World”.
Mine presentation at the 2013 Microsoft Research Faculty Summit
My team brought the project to the 2013 Microsoft Research Faculty Summit as part of “Design Expo – Making Data
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Mine Logo
This was the logo I made for the Mine project. The project is all about data miners, giving users a
Mine UI Walkthrough
I redesigned the UI for the presentation at MS Research, giving it a more cohesive look. My use of the Metro design
End of Semester Results
After gathering some great data from our interviews, we iterated to the final presentation of our design.
Iterate: Make it Mine
The name ‘Mine’ came to be while envisioning the power of using this product. We simplified our interfaces for impact and clarity while also capturing some playful interactions.
Iterate: Digestible
We focused on statistics, text analysis, and displaying results through easily digestible tidbits of data insight.
Iterate: {blank}-ability
Bringing together everything we brainstormed and discussed, we created an early design iteration of what would eventually become Mine.
Brainstorming
What can we create that uses data to improve the lives of individuals? We started by generating some ideas, then came at it from a couple other directions around the data itself.