Week 4: In Class Exercise

Exercise 1
Nowadays, most of the people cannot live without mobile phone. Even thought people are using their mobile phone while driving, which is a very dangerous behaviour that every one should be aware of. Therefore, instead of using mobile phone by hand to texting or calling, it is better to use voice control to control those function so that people can be more focus on driving and reduce the dangerous of using it. Also by having a system in the car to sense human interaction with the phone, if it is driving the phone will not able to activate until the car speed is reduce to certain speed or completely stop.


Exercise 2
Alarm clock application for your smartphone with the following key features:
1. Can set, edit delete multiple alarms
2. Can daisy-chain alarms - if one is allowed to ring out, another is activated automatically
3. Can set different tones for different alarms
4. Shake phone to snooze

Design and describe a horizontal, a vertical and a diagonal prototype for this application Above is the horizontal type of design for human user interface. Eg, the menu, screen and else. The key is to test the interaction.
Actions can be made:
1. Add alarm alert: Press the + button on top right corner to add a new alarm
2. Add daisy alarm: Press the + button on top right corner on the alarm that you wish to add daisy alarm to go setting page.
3. Remove alarm: Swipe the desired alarm to the left and press the R to remove
3. Change alarm settings: Double tap the alarm to go in setting of the alarm to change the settings.

Above is vertical type of design. It has fewer detail but higher detail. It shows specific function of the alarm application such as set up different tones for different alarms.  

Diagonal design is the combination of vertical and horizontal design processes, it combine the features and details for both design. Take the most important features and detailed design of them and test them in a in complement yet working application.