Ideation Process
Countdown Clock: Idea Prototype
Geographic Present: Prototype
User Testing: Initial LOOP bracelet.
Refined prototype of both LOOP bracelets after user feedback. Velcro used to mimic the squeezing and releasing of the bracelets.
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Human Factors in Design: THE LOOP

Stanford University: Human Factors in Design, Autumn 2012. This group project (my roles: ideator, interviewer, getting feedback/ user testing, filmer, and film maker) dealt with improving long distance relationships. After research, several ideas and prototypes, the idea for a bracelet was seen as the most popular, viable, creative, and the one that helped user's needs most. Prototypes of a bracelet that one person would squeeze with his or her hand, as well as the other bracelet that would receive this squeeze and the person would feel it, were made. Finally, a video was made establishing, the user, their unique needs, the solution (bracelet), and life with the bracelet.

Sidharth Kumar
Student: Stanford University Stanford, CA