Goal: Determine how to expand our ski technology to take advantage of the growing wearable technology trend.
Wearable technology is expected to surpass mobile phones by 2:1 in 2015 in terms of number of devices. It's definitely trending up. So we wanted to push the envelope and build a prototype.
After researching a number of different hardware providers out there we settled on Meta Watch because of its open source nature as compared to the others in the market at the time.
My challenge was to decide how we would present a branded experience with useful information to the user in a watch form factor. And obviously we had to work with what I affectionately called the 8-bit Mario resolution. So I analyzed the experience from the center out. As you got farther away from the core database, what was important? What information was "needed" on a small screen and what was useless without more real estate? I arrived at:
This information would be accessed quickly and the user would want a straight-to-the-point experience. So we kept it simple. I designed the landing page with room for a custom logo, made use of the hardware buttons that already existed on the watch, and made sure each screen gave just enough information to make the app effective without unnecessary clutter in an already-confined space.
Wearable technology is expected to surpass mobile phones by 2:1 in 2015 in terms of number of devices. It's definitely trending up. So we wanted to push the envelope and build a prototype.
After researching a number of different hardware providers out there we settled on Meta Watch because of its open source nature as compared to the others in the market at the time.
My challenge was to decide how we would present a branded experience with useful information to the user in a watch form factor. And obviously we had to work with what I affectionately called the 8-bit Mario resolution. So I analyzed the experience from the center out. As you got farther away from the core database, what was important? What information was "needed" on a small screen and what was useless without more real estate? I arrived at:
- Tracking (vertical feet, number of runs, and max speed)
- Weather conditions
- Lift statuses
- Pass barcode to scan
- Alerts
This information would be accessed quickly and the user would want a straight-to-the-point experience. So we kept it simple. I designed the landing page with room for a custom logo, made use of the hardware buttons that already existed on the watch, and made sure each screen gave just enough information to make the app effective without unnecessary clutter in an already-confined space.