Lauren Robertson of Designit

UX Designer

Not your usual platform: Prototyping for a wood harvester

Lightning Talk:

Looking towards a near future of semi-autonomous forestry vehicles, the challenge was to design an interface to assist 'Forwarder' vehicle operators with the task of locating and collecting felled timber. This was achieved through a variety of approximations, for example a 'wizard-of-oz' prototype to demonstrate the changing head-up display as the operator moves through the forest, interactive card models or the UI and the space within the vehicle's cabin. Dynamic behavior of the UI was simulated with post-its, overlays and removable paper elements.

Talk Date & Time

Friday at 14:00

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About Lauren

Lauren is an interaction design master's student at the Umeå Institute of Design in Sweden. Originally from the UK, She's found herself progressively leaving a little trail of projects around Europe – right now this leads to Munich where she currently interns at IDEO and Designit.

Laurens strengths lie in design research, concept development, and in making the ambiguous tangible – having studied for her undergraduate degree in Product Design she has a 'prototype-y' approach, and often finds herself exploring the balance between physical and digital interfaces.