Initial Ideas - Problem to Outcome

After working through the experience of a number of different screen based interfaces, the initial idea generation began, focusing around the problems that individuals experience in everyday life. Various discussions were had with peers to gather these problems and discuss how they could be overcome through the use of a screen.

Cooking Problems:

- Recipe books get dirty, especially when baking. This is the same issue that occurs when following a recipe on a screen based device.

- When following a recipe on a screen device the following problems arise: screen dirty from touching, continuously having to unlock phone, device can get in the way, having to have multiple apps open (timer, web browser, music)

- Having a variety of ingredients but not knowing what to make with them 

Ideas to resolve these problems:

- An outcome that would involve being able to search for recipes and save them to  a personal recipe book. When the device that you are using locks you would be able to speak to the device (much like siri) to repeat steps to you, convert measurements, etc. This would solve the issue of having to touch the device with dirty hands and therefore make the process of using a recipe from a screen device much easier.

- An outcome that would solve the problem of not knowing what to make with the ingredients that you have is a meal generator. You would be able to input your ingredients into the programme which would then generate recipes for you to browse through and choose. As this could bring up a range of options, it would be appropriate to include the option of 'specifications' for the recipes. 

Working through the discussion with peers in this way has helped to identify the differences of identifying a problem and thinking of ideas. The problem must come first and then the ideas are appropriate solutions to the problem, informed by research and the target audience that it would be most appropriate for.