Finding a way forward to ideate a safe and better driving experience with an intuitive design being itself a natural extension of the individual.
All over the world every professionals jump-start by planning his/ her day, drive to work place, finish work and drive back home or any other place. It's not that simple, how it seems to be.
Every year 1.3 Million lives have been lost in automobile accident and many suffer injured that are reported to involve a distracted driver . While death toll keeps increasing, 95% of it are due to human error while operating the vehicle. So how to make the world a better place and driving more seamless?
Even though cars are such a vital part of our daily lives, we remain deeply disconnected from them, lack the tools to communicate with vehicles and be informed. Concept spins around how I worked to blur the boundaries between device and automobile, making it humanized.
Being a part of urban working population, I wanted to deal with the biggest problem of planning the day, driving and being safe on road. Wanted to feel empowered and hold responsible to bring a change by human centric design approach.
Ease out transit for the world’s professionals to make them more productive, safe and successful. With the advent of technology user should be able to perceive better, calculate faster, react earlier before or on roads. The significant progress in natural language processing and computational power made it possible to use a different type of interface — voice-based.
"But how to provide it in a way that’s a little more human, a little more cautious in the moment when you’re commuting or about to head somewhere?"
Questions started forming around the idea of communication between car via watch: What could it add to people’s lives? What new ways can you use a smart watch while drive and plan the day better? Other beneficial features that can be built - What if a car could use a device that could filter out noise and instead only serve truly important information? It can probably make life lot more easier.
"Have glared down at those who bury themselves into their phones, distracted while driving, holding or texting with one hand or absentmindedly thrust hands into their own pockets at every ding or buzz."
Put together a persona through real-time observations, interview findings among peers and network.
The purpose to use the wrist-mounted technology, what problems it might solve— was something truly based on the intuitiveness of the user interface and how the app itself can becomes a true mate to stand-by different scenarios.
I began to empathize people's pain points, study their behavior as well as capture the nuances to make this idea functional, delightful relevant to their lives.
App uses its intelligence backed up by computational power to diligently connect human driver with his/ her automobile, calendar, mail, messaging, current location, state of mind, heart rate, alcohol level and suggests a handful of intellectual responses i.e smart reply/ options. More humanized interaction that could last only 3 seconds, 5 at most based on level of importance in the information, as sensed by car’s state of motion. Activating autonomous car is one such highlight!
Adding humanity, delight into the design so it doesn’t become a robotic experience for real people. Bridging a communication gap through voice, glance information, physical sensations with accuracy and relevance to user environment. Eventually this will happen, before that it will be worth conceptualizing!