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Glenn Zucman 7:44 am on July 13, 2014 Permalink
Tags: Art Center ( 2 ), Ephemeral Wayfinding ( 2 ), Wayfinding ( 4 ), WearableTechLA ( 7 )

Art Center Saturday July 12
Joseph Kan, Glenn Zucman, Susan Zhang & Vivia Liu. Photo by Sharon Gong.

Susan, Vivia, Joseph, Sharon & I metup in the Art Center College of Design (main campus) Cafatera from about noon-6p today to work on our presentation for WearableTechLA on Thursday. We weren’t able to reconsider our hardware solution, but we did take the opportunity to consider the Extreme Wearable Designathon Judge’s advice to move past the Find Water use case, and think more about Wayfinding.

We developed an Ephemeral Wayfinding scenario and created presentation slides. I got to live out my lifelong dream of being a Wearable Tech Hand Model! Here are some images from our day:
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Glenn Zucman 4:07 pm on July 9, 2014 Permalink
Tags: Courtney Peterson ( 2 ), Sangli Li ( 2 )

Photos by Sangli Li
Natalia, Joseph, Samy, David, Vivia, Glenn, Sharon & Susan display their 3rd place prizes as Samy presents the Compass H2O wristband. Photo by Sangli Li | Media Design Practices @ Art Center College of Design

Art Center MFA candidate Sangli Li came by XWD on Sunday and took some nice photos of the teams and the judging. Here are a few of them, used with the kind permission of Courtney Peterson / MDP / Art Center. You can see all of Li’s work on Flickr.

Photography by Sangli Li | Media Design Practices @ Art Center College of Design
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Glenn Zucman 9:27 pm on June 29, 2014 Permalink
Tags: Anne Burdick ( 4 ), Christian Denhart ( 2 ), Eric Lewallen ( 2 ), Judges, Jury ( 2 ), Maggie Hendrie ( 3 ), Marcus Filipovich ( 2 ), Syuzi Pakchyan ( 3 )

The Presentations!
Compass H2O Water!

And then everyone came and looked!

The Judges

More: 32 images of Judges & each of the XWD Teams >>

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- Sharon Gong 3:25 pm on June 30, 2014 Permalink | Log in to Reply
  
  I think we earn the heart of the audience. We did provide a workable demo and the audiences loves that.
  The way we need to improve is to tell a better story. I really enjoy the way Emoty presents, quite logical and they did tell us where the concept came from and what problem it solved.
  A great story will make the product more convincing.
- Sharon Gong 4:11 pm on June 30, 2014 Permalink | Log in to Reply
  
  I love the design of the badge for the water bottle. Thanks, Glenn~
  It looks like a real one that could sale 😛
  - Glenn Zucman 4:12 pm on June 30, 2014 Permalink | Log in to Reply
    
    hahaha – yessy! Compass H2O is the only brand of water I drink now! I keep it fully stocked in the studio fridge! 🙂
    - Sharon Gong 4:16 pm on June 30, 2014 Permalink | Log in to Reply
      
      Oh, you remind me. We could make more bottles on the demo day 7/17. And hand out to the audiences passed by. They might need some water to prevent dehydration for that busy day ^_^
      - Glenn Zucman 4:26 pm on June 30, 2014 Permalink | Log in to Reply
        
        Yes Sharon, that’s a really great idea. Can we print more of the labels? I actually measured the label from the ones that were on the bottles, but it seems like they might have wound up 1/8″ – 3/16″ short going around. Maybe the file got shrunk in placing from PS to IL or something. Anyway, I guess they just need to be 1/4″ wider.
        
        I can pick up a case of water and we could meetup sometime / someplace and paste labels. And I can bring the tape film gun.
Glenn Zucman 8:29 pm on June 29, 2014 Permalink
Tags: Extreme Wearables ( 2 ), Sunday, Wind Tunnel ( 3 )

Sunday: Finishing Our Prototype
Joseph & Natalia completing the case with our final prototype inside.

Somehow, OMG, we finished! (barely! 🙂
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- Sharon Gong 3:21 pm on June 30, 2014 Permalink | Log in to Reply
  
  I love this team. Everyone is awesome !!!
  We cooperated quite well. Each of us has our own skill set, dedicated and focus. Lease but not last, I could feel the passion and initiative creativity which sparks around. Just felt fantastic working with all of you.
Glenn Zucman 10:23 pm on June 28, 2014 Permalink
Tags: band ( 2 ), Compass ( 3 ), led ( 2 )

Saturday Late Nite!
Working on the band!
Sharon Gong 7:49 pm on June 28, 2014 Permalink

Logo design is not an easy job !
Susan did try several versions. The whole team is still working on choosing one.
Glenn Zucman 5:36 pm on June 28, 2014 Permalink
Tags: Brainstorm, Compass ( 3 ), Hydration ( 6 ), Magdalena Paluch ( 2 ), Saturday, Social Compass ( 4 )

Saturday: Morning & Afternoon

We brainstormed, played design games, and tried to hone in first on a Need and then moving to more specific design goals. We had so many ideas on so many topics and so many solutions I think we were all going a little mad this morning!

Our continued efforts with a lot of help from Syuzi Pakchyan, Magdalena Paluch, and the other coaches finally led us to a project we were all excited about: Compass H2.O

Compass H2.O

• A wrist worn compass that senses your hydration level and leads you to water.
• A crowdsourced database of potable water sources.
• A propopulated device for areas with no cell or wifi signals.
• An open source platform for myriad personal and social compass apps in the future.
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Glenn Zucman 9:53 am on June 28, 2014 Permalink
Tags: Extreme Wearables ( 2 ), Kevin, Wind Tunnel ( 3 )

Kevin's facility tour #extremewearables pic.twitter.com/5Mp7HyAipJ

— Glenn Zucman (@gzucman) June 28, 2014
Glenn Zucman 1:00 am on June 28, 2014 Permalink
Tags: Anne Burdick ( 4 ), Friday, Glenn, Joseph, Qing, Samy, Shan, Sharon, Susan, Syuzi Pakchyan ( 3 ), Vivia, Wind Tunnel ( 3 )

Friday Session
Extreme Wearable Designathon leader Syuzi Pakchyan / Fashioningtech.com

Food.
Meetup.
Brainstorming.
And we formed teams!

Team: Compass H2.O

David Wang
Glenn Zucman
Joseph Kan
Natalia Fedner
Samy Kamkar
Shan Zhang
Sharon Gong
Vivia Liu

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