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METADIP

Striving towards an innovative, engaging website that unites 20 diverse teams in a collaborative showcase of their remarkable work.

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Milestones Made

Discover our proudest moments and significant milestones in our journey of excellence

Capturing User Needs

Collecting key details of features, priorities and minimum viable product from clients. Re-alighted previous misconceptions that the team had based on project specifications that was published. Understanding on expectations of through asking relevant and insightful questions enabled the team to reach consensus in the specifications of the project’s product.

Ideation & Alignment of Mental models

Utilisation of a modified 10-for-10 brainstorming method for identifying key design features that is viable in the final product. This enabled the team to have an alignment of mental models through the explaining these first iteration prototypes to the team.

Pursuit of Purple Cow

Through the use of an ideation funnel and rapid ideation, the search for a purple cow interaction method that is suitable and appropriate for the product commenced. This resulted in the completion of 2 prototypes with different concepts and interaction methods embedded in them. After consulting with the client, the team reconsolidated their ideas and moved forward to finalising the prototype.

Finalising Prototypes

Heuristic testing was conducted on other potential users of the site. This led to the change of position of multiple functionalities and buttons. The team collectively agreed and designed the final prototype by using the best and most appropriate features for us. With the finalised prototype in hand, the team started to work towards a full working product.

Usability Testing of
Pre-deployment Product

The team utilised both cognitive walkthrough and heuristic evaluation on potential users to attain their user feedback on functionalities. The initial feedback attained was not satisfactory to the team at all, having 1 minor and 1 major severity rating. Furthermore, text to speech features was not aiding the users as intended. Due to usability and user experience, the team made 1 large overhaul of the design, combining multiple tabs into one page.

Amendments to Final Product

Development of fully functional smart controller is completed and showcased proudly on this site. As seen, navigation has been made easy by opening up multiple methods of navigation throughout the site. Furthermore, flippable cards are utilised to ensure that sufficient content can still be fit in a team.

Our Leadership Team

During an intensive three-week project, our diverse team focused on innovation and design for a unique smart home use case, aiming to create something truly distinctive – a "purple cow" product that captivates the audience. We faced challenges in designing a webpage that sets itself apart from existing products, but the rapid ideation process and modified 10 for 10 method fuelled our creativity, leading to innovative ideas and prototypes. Embracing change and pushing boundaries made innovation the driving force behind our work. We are incredibly proud of the final product and the valuable lessons learned about creating remarkable designs through iteration and daring to be different. Our focus on innovation and design is now ingrained in our approach, as we strive to create more "purple cow" products with a lasting impact on users.

    "These 3 weeks exposed me to a multitude of design thinking process and methods. Having to match mental models, prototype and search for a unique and distinct point was challenging. However, this enabled me to view design and features of a product objectively. Diving for a unique one-of-a-kind product was close to impossible hurdle that the team had to cross together. I hope that the team has delivered on the expectations that was held on us. It was enjoyable doing through many prototyping methods, brainstorming and collaborate to come up with a better idea altogether at the wee hours in the morning. If choose one of the many key takeaways, it would be that good ideas and design do not come naturally. It is through iterations after iterations, which is what makes them valuable."

Daniel

Product Owner
    "Designing has never been my strong suit. As someone who is methodological and loves the technical aspect on computing science, I often used to see it as a chore to a full webapp product whose features are the backend which should shine. It is only after the first iteration of prototype that we has to do ourselves that I realised that I was poor at coming up with a good design. An all encompassing design seemed out of reach the first week of this program. The modified 10-by-10, design rapid ideation allowed the team to quickly progress. All in all, I am really proud of the product that we have put together. The interaction method is something that I have not seen in any websites. I am really glad to be able to host my work as a medium for others to display theirs as well."

Jonathan

Scrum Master
    "Innovation was the hardest part for me in the 3 weeks. I thought that finding a truly differentiated product in terms of interaction method. The team has a lot of ideas which were thrown out due to time and hardware limitations. Due to these constrains, the team had to ensure that an idea was innovative yet feasible with the resources available now. Even though it is not entirely new concept of interaction, I am really proud of our end results, and personally feel that it was a good display of what we could create in this short time span. All in all, the key takeaway for me was the different perspective processes on innovation and the methods to utilise prototyping as a method and tool to get to this end point. It was eye opening for me to fully understand the perspective on how to make a product truly special to users."

Kahbee

Developer
    "The design process that we can undergone this past 3 week has been really interesting. Making prototypes separately based on the modified 10-by-10 method was new and refreshing as we do not usually get the freedom to design a webpage on our own. As our clients gave us majority of the freedom, it enabled us to think out of the box and allowed us to be able to design a web application that we are all proud of. This taught me truly how valuable being able to walk away proudly knowing that the designed was one that the team has collectively came up with is. I especially enjoyed being able to review the iterative process of our team and all the others in a glance on the webpage. This gave me a new appreciation and understanding the importance of showcasing our best work."

Jaden

Developer
    "It was great looking at the fruits of our labour at the end of this short span of 3 weeks. This journey was been challenging. The technical aspect was what challenged me the most as integrating technologies into a html page without a backend was not something that I have done before. It was a relief that we manged to solve the issue on hand before the dead line as we were honestly cutting close. On top of this, the design process was something new to me as the design process that I was used to was strictly based on Human-Computer Interaction design and deviated in the sense that it is largely a user centric design. This design process, allowed us to innovate first then fir it in, which was the drastic difference comparatively to the projects that we have done up to done."

Zheng Xiang

Developer
    "Embracing changes and moving with innovation is the biggest lesson that I have learned. My perspective on coming up with a purple cow product is what makes this 3-week valuable. It was never occurred to me that a product standing out may be a key indication of a successful product. After going through the 10 prototypes that we have collectively made though the 3 iterative design process, I learned that there is always something to be objectively improved in a design. As such, no design is perfect, and striving for one with innovation and eye catching is something we can do to come close to such a product."

Shi Jie

Developer
    "Intended use is a challenging thing to convey. Personally, I feel that the challenge for our team was to simultaneously make an innovative product that was at the same time still intuitive for users based on previous mental models. As innovation is to stand out, making it based on old mental models was counter intuitive to us at first. However, little by little, I am proud that the team managed to do so by revamping the concept of an old television remote and presentation clicker into a modern smart controller smartphone. Regretfully, we were unable to create something that the world truly did not see before within this short span of time. However, I feel extremely proud of the end product you see on this site."

Charles

Developer