Studio Brief 02 - Initial Ideas

Idea 01

Problem
Estudio is an underutilised college online resource that is designed pragmatically without considering how one uses the website. Consistent scrolling of the page to find the module content is a time waste and can become confusing, especially if there's a lot of information presented in one go. There is no efficient hierarchy of the page to allow the student to quickly access the college online resources. These seem like small problems however they build up to make an unengaging and mundane user experience.

Solution
Estudio can be redesigned to offer an easier, faster way of accessing the course modules and to include more of the colleges useful information. 

Potential features
- Estudio can be a platform to showcase all the events that are happening in the college, like a virtual noticeboard. This can be extended in showing the live briefs offered to the college, reducing the need for constant emails on the matter.
- Students can use estudio to manage their bookings, and subsequently sync it to their google calendar. 
- Instead of having to go through multiple links for the library's catalogue, it could be a shortcut or section of its own. 

These possible design solutions represent the aim of condensing the key and most used areas of estudio into a accessible overview that streamlines the overall experience.

Idea 02

Problem 

On screen magazine apps are saturated by similar user interface solutions that do not fully utilise the potential and technology of the screen and the tablet itself. The market itself is also dominated by commercial magazines that leave indie magazines out from the exposure of a wider audience.

Solution
A magazine app that is a online solution to the lackluster reading experience provided that showcases the best of indie magazines.
Potential features
- A 3D rendering of the magazine itself where the readers can interact and view the magazine's form and construction at the end of each reading or as an option that will help encourage the reader to buy the physical copy. 
- Taking advantage of the screen, animated gifs, videos, links and interactive sections that make the reader form the layout of the "page" can be incorporated.
- When forgetting where the reader left off, a quick view of all the spreads will allow for a faster more recognisable way for them to know which page they are on. As opposed to using page numbers which is hardly paid attention to. 
- A visual shelf of the readers magazines that can become their own virtual collection. 
- The app can show the nearest magazine shops around you.

The idea is not to reinvent how we read on screen but it is to make reading magazines on screen a more enjoyable and creative experience. Thinking even further, this could open up a new form of magazines, digital only magazines where it fully utilises the potential of digital technology.