Experimental

Information Design: ArchChive

ArchChive is conceived as a web-based collaboration & file-sharing tool targeted at architects. The prime issues I was exploring here were about getting away from textual tabular data that one typically gets with a file / document management system, and using some visual means of conveying that information; bringing emotional design into play, so that the user has a satisfying experience on many levels; incorporating nature into this digital world, exploring metaphors from nature that might be meaningfully applied here.

Features:

• -This tool would enable sharing of files including photos, sketches,etc;
• - Annotation of these files, so that all group members are on the same page.
• - An experiment in information visualization combined with emotional design.

Metaphor:

Andy Goldsworthy's leaf sculpture

• - The files in the system would be displayed not as text, but in visuals.
• - I chose the metaphor of leaves as files in the system, inspired by Andy Goldsworthy.
• - The color of the leaves as well as spatial position on the spiral indicated the file date.
• - Scale denotes metrics such as 'importance', a user-defined tag.

 

Check out details of this project from the links below: ( Each opens in a new window)

Design goals | Metaphor creation | Personas /Scenarios |

Prototype:

Finding a certain file type in the system | Checking for new files | Adding new users to team | Reporting needs |