This was the introduction to my new module ‘Playful Interactions’ which will look at Micro Interactions (Visual or audio feedback triggered by a users action.
This is something what really interests me as I have studied animation in college and this is heavily linked to this. So this makes it a great opportunity to combine these two skill sets of UI/UX & Animation. My lecturer did mention that this module will be a lot lighter than ‘User experience and service design’ as that one has a lot more work in it.
This will be my first project to create a set of three Micro interactions however I will aim to make five as my lecturer mentioned to do so to achieve higher grades and understanding.
For my second project I will need to create something based in the future, thinking how it could look in 50 years from now.
During the lecture it was mentioned to consider AR etc as this is currently becoming more widely available. I was thinking of the possibly holograms in the future but I am not sure if holograms would have a UI but this is something for me to explore. This is quite similar to my SDG project from last semester so I feel like I already have a bit of a heads up on designing something like this.
In the lecture it was also mentioned to think of movies which the example of Iron Man was used. I am a big movie person so I will try and think of examples which could help me think of ideas for future technology.