Tutorial-- 9 July 2013

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Today, when I showed my illustration to my mates and Kay, I was more confident than last tutorial because Kay thought my illustration looks good. However, the problem of that how tea lady is nominated through the app. The question is still struggling my mind so I need to look at the original question I asked in the learning agreement to solve my design problem. In addition, I have to focus on how to bring people together socially both physically and digitally by tea drinking.

There are several bullet points below:

• Look at how the lady is nominated through the app. 
• Look at welcome package for tea drinker 
• Look at strong color, graphic, imagery for cups—could they have the Lego on bottom?

Case study-- L'Oréal Paris

  

The concept of the application— The Color Genius is to help people determine the perfect make up combination to suit their mood and their outfit. If you use the function—Snap it—take a photo of your outfit, the application will analyze the color and gave you an ideal suggestion. When you are playing the game, you might be surprised that just like there has a professional make-up artist help you to make-up.

This concept inspired me to think about if we take a photo, then the application will analyze the color of our photo for finding a cup of tea to suit our feeling, it would be interesting. Moreover, the visual style of The Color Genius is very 60s so I could learn how it design the application and the layout displays.

Reference：

JANINE, 2012,Time-Saver: The L’Oréal Paris Color Genius App (and a Wee Peek at Spring), BEAUTYGEEKS , Available at: http://imabeautygeek.com/2012/11/28/time-saver-the-loreal-paris-color-genius-app-and-a-wee-peek-at-spring/[accessed 3 July 2013]

Tutorial-- 25June 2013

Because of the last tutorial, I thought I have to prepare a lot of visual works and clear concept of my app for today’s tutorial. Hence, I created two storyboards. One is talking about how the app works with the machine and the other one is the function of the app.

This storyboard described in detail how the app works.

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First, if we want to drink a cup of tea, we can order it by an app of Eleven Four, after a while the app will deliver the order to the tea machine so when we put the mug on the machine, it will made a cup of tea automatically. This is convenient for people who are working in the office. In addition, we can play a game, called who is today’s tea lady with our friends and colleagues. The content of the game is that we can send a massage to our colleagues and friends for reminding them to take a break, just like a tea lady, and the massage might include a recipe for making our favorite tea so when our friends received it, they can choose the recipe that we sent to them. Accordingly, if we put the mug on the tea machine, it will make a cup of tea by their choice.

This is the storyboard of the app’s functions.

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First function is called my cup, which can help we make a cup of tea to suit our flavor. Such as, we can choose a type of tea that we like to drink, decide how much sugar we want to take, and what kinds of milk that we take. The tea machine will make a cup of tea according to those kinds of choices. Second, Like is the function that for people to share their opinions. Teatime is third function, which is an on-line social network service for people to find a company that can drink a cup of tea with them. The final function is called tea lady. Through the function, we can send a massage to our friends and colleagues and it has a receipt of the ratio of the tea that we like so they can try our receipt by the machine.

When it comes to visual style, I thought I have to work hard and figure out which visual style is the best for my project.

This is the visual style of my application.

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