Contacting design companies & Software Development

I plan to pitch my work to design companies in its rawest form: the underlying concept of ‘transient memory’. This would require me to explain the concept and its potential outcomes. 

The paired architecture of this project isn’t the only outcome; it could be anything from one-to-to to many-to-many. It could also be an architecture between a person and themselves. Re-evaluating my project direction is important to ensure that I have worked through all emerging themes and tested the validity of each. A thesis has been created, but not tested, and it could be useful to test the thesis again various potential outcomes.

 I believe that a short YouTube video explaining the concept could be of use.  Within the video will be an explanation of the concept. This will be hosted on my portfolio website and will be also used to introduce potential users to the concept. This could facilitate a wider range of thinking. From this platform online survey research could be conducted. The YouTube video will be ‘advert-style’ and will pitch the idea as a real concept, like the design fiction videos blogged earlier this week.

A short list of design companies has been drawn up from those suggested by my personal tutor; the rumpus room, tangerine uk and four communications. These were selected for the nature of their projects and specialism. Contacting design companies will allow me to formalise my work.

Prototyping at the moment has enabled me to understand more about the supporting technology and to create an early proof of concept. It has not been as much about user testing, requirements testing or software development.

Software Development System

It is also at this point that I want to declare the software development process that I am using: ‘the iterative model’.  There are five main stages to software design: Requirements capture, , Analysis, Design, Implementation and Testing. The iterative model iterates multiple times through each of the stages. I also want to take a user-centred approach and now that early prototypes have been made and a concept developed, they can be involved. The project may form an open-source architecture for other designers to design from, and users may simply suggest a few examples. To do so, an online resource or book could be created with guidelines for designers to work from. There is so much range that 'transient memory' allows that this could facilitate the invention of things that a single designer would not have thought of alone.