This was a theoretical project made at the course, Interaction design, at Malmo University. The project was based on a fictive future world where we were supposed to find a problem and design a solution connected to someones personal space; either a plant, an animal or human. 

In a group of 5 people, we started with assigning each team member an area of responsibility. I was responsible of the product design, including sketching and illustrations (designing the finished product) as well as the storytelling. Our process followed these steps: affinity mapping, focus group, sketching, programming, prototype, testing, sketching, programming, testing, finishing final design. 
 
We started with coming up with a future world, which was a world where co-living is the standard way of living. From thet we brainstormed possible problems and effects that future could have on people. After the feedback from the focus group we decided to focus on easing the communication between the co-livers and to make it possible for people to signal when they are up for conversation or do not want to be disturbed. This brought os into more brainstorming ideas. How would a person signal their social availability? And would that type of non verbal communication effect the normal communication in a negative way? 
 
We sketched on a few artefact ideas, made our first prototypes and tested them on others to see which one they preferred. That made us choose to proceed with a bracelet, showing different coloured lights depending on your availability. To further develop the concept, after the feedback we got, we decided to connect the bracelet to an app, making it possible to find other people in your area that were up for a social activity. 
 
Then we once again created new prototypes, one with some programmed features and one look-and-feel to test on others and get more feedback. We adjusted some faults and made a video to show the concept. The final design is shown below.