Critique session number 2

Discussing the sketches

Different strengths in the sketches?

Because we all had almost the same overall idea, the sketches looked very alike. This makes it easy to cooperate when designing. Some aspects were however different. One of the sketches had pictures on the cubes to inspires playfulness, which we thought was a strength. Most sketches illustrated not only design but functionality as well.

Difficult aspects to illustrate?

Most of us thought that it was difficult to illustrate the flow of information in a sketch. We also had troubles with the way the cubes should work internally.

Different aspects in the sketches?

The sketches showed that we al had designed aspects different from each other. Some sketches had rounded corners, different kinds of on and off switches and sizes of the cube.

Discussing the details of the building blocks

We discussed a lot of how the blocks would work and how they will send and receive information from each other. The alternatives we came up with was using pressure sensors to detect if a cube is on top of another. We also thought of using nfc to send/receive information but it has a small range. We are looking for something that has a few decimeters long range.

Our plan B, In case we can’t make it work the way we intended, is to make the cubes change colors individually depending on the pressure level in each cube.

We also talked about different materials to make the cube in, for example plastic and rubber. We decided to test different materials to see what spreads the light the best.

By: Josefine, Carolina, Lennart and Julius