online endless canvas to interact on
Awarded as the Most Creative Concept during the
Human Computer Interaction Course in Coursera
https://www.coursera.org/course/hci
Instant messaging allows people to think and type simultaneously, causing a phenomenon called ‘parallel chatting’. Chatboard is a new way of visualizing a chat interaction, an endless canvas to chat and interact on, a visually friendly tool which adapts to the time flexibility that comes along with instant messaging.
Need-finding phase
The way instant messaging (chatting) is visualized on our screens today is a linear format listing messages chronologically. However, instant messaging allows two (or more) people to think and type at the same time, which muddles topics and leads to misunderstandings.
‘How might we design an interface for instant messaging that prioritizes topics rather than time?
Learning about general chatting habits, how parallel chatting starts and how the users feel
Collecting chat histories from my users and analyzing their conversations.
Chatting for an hour with one of the extreme users on a blank canvas to pretotype the idea
Learning what kind of device and existing instant messaging services are used by different age groups
Storyboard
Prototyping and user-testing
