For this week, we focused on connecting all our research together as well as recreate the application in a more holistic manner. Firstly, for our research, we focused on the individual that I initially interviewed, Adam Liu. We identified that communication, both speaking and listening were highly important. In this week, I communicated more with Adam, especially as it was Deaf Awareness Day. He mentioned more issues, in particular, an article of how it really felt to be deaf. This article mentioned the issues of miscommunication, of guessing, and lack of awareness of surroundings that Adam mentioned. This was great affirmation for our empathy tools as well as the solution we came up with.
Due to this, we focused more on the user experience and the features which included indicators of sound for the glasses and personalization through the application. For the application, it was redesigned by Zhenyu after our group discussion on the necessary features for the design. I created more of the prototyping logic and recreating the buttons to be usable accordingly to create the user experience. In this way, the application becomes an understandable prototype.
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