Wednesday, April 16, 2014

Ideas for my senior project

So for my last year of school, there is one project that I will spend twenty weeks on, this project will hopefully be the most impressive piece in my portfolio (hopefully). This is where I will post my process toward narrowing down my ideas and so on and so forth from there.


So there's my mind map of ideas, and after much deliberation, I have narrowed it down to one large idea to pursue. However, this is not concrete and may change at any moment. I mean I am going to be working on it for twenty weeks, so I have to be confident in my concept.

  • An application to both aid those who are affected by memory loss diseases like Dementia, and their loved ones. 
    • The app would include helpful information about memory loss diseases and give the user tips on how to help their loved one cope with what is happening to them. There would also be information for how to keep the sufferer calm and happy, since people who have diseases that affect memory tend to get angry and frustrated easily. So this aspect would include findings of others studies that have helped to alter the patients moods.
    • The app would also include a variety of memory aiding games for the people who are suffering from these diseases. This would both prolong the inevitable and strengthen their current mind. I feel like this aspect alone would be very helpful.
    • The application would be available on multiple platforms-computer, tablet, and phone
    • The game/games would be available on all of those plus a physical copy for those who do not have easy access to technology.
This idea came to me on a personal level, my grandmother suffers from Dementia and when I found that out there was not a lot of easily understandable information on it nor any tools to help. So I feel like something like this would have helped me and will help others.

As far as collateral for this concept I have thought of the following:
  • kinetic typography info graphics/commercials
  • website
  • brochures
  • books
  • posters
  • the physical game
  • flash cards
  • the actual application for tablet/phone
  • and maybe even a call center/help line

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