Avante Garde – The Umbrella Project
In the final semester of my degree I had a module in Avant Garde Design and Development, this gave me the opportunity to come up with outside the box ideas and solutions. I explored interface design and user interactions based on the workings and structure of an umbrella.
Three Interfaces which I developed were
– A Data Navigation System used the structure of an umbrella to navigate different levels of data.
– A Mobile Interface Gesture used the familiar gesture of shaking off the rain on an umbrella to change the content on the screen
– A Searching System used the metaphor of an umbrella protecting something to search through different levels, and the gesture of putting up and down an umbrella to clear search terms
Kim Patterson 