Summary

Role

Lead Designer, Web Developer

Team

Designers, web developers, embedded engineers, machine learning developers (5 in total)

Goal

Build a visitor tracker for the Dipoli exhibition space.

Methods

Field study, User flow, Lo-fi prototyping with Figma, User testing, Hi-fi prototyping with programming

Key learnings

• Design Thinking process
• Iterative user testing
• Collaborating with engineers

Timeline

Context

This project was for the course Design Thinking and Advanced Prototyping @ Aalto University.

Problem

Dipoli Gallery is one of Aalto University’s main representational spaces. Each year, Dipoli hosts several exhibitions showcasing the best works from the Aalto community.

However, Dipoli was lacking a way to track the number of visitors who come to see their exhibitions. The Dipoli team needed these data to measure the level of interest in exhibitions and to report to the university.

Goal

Our goal was to build a system that could help the Dipoli staff track data on visitors. The system should be easy to install, setup, and use.

Field study

At the first step of the project, we visited the Dipoli building to examine the exhibition space and talked to one curator about her work.

Findings

• The exhibition space is not separated from the common space, where people go to work, lecture, or lunch. Therefore, it might be tricky to tell visitors from people that were just passing by.
• The curator needs to know the total number of visitor for each day and for a range of day.
• The curator uses the data to report to the university, give feedback to artists, and measure the level of interest in the exhibitions.