Future of Work

Leveraging analogue inputs in an increasingly digitalized workspace, our project imagines new ways of working in distraction-less environments.

^{Academic project

collaborating with ReMarkable/

Screens AHO 2019

Team: Palak Dudani
User research/ Prototyping/ User testing/ Interaction design}

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^{Nominated for ‘Strategic Use of Design’ by pwc|Livework}

Keeping the learning and reflection needs of 21st century information workers in mind, the project proposes a transition for the company from being a ‘better thinking product’ to a ‘better thinking ecosystem’.

The task we were given was to research, define and design a modern, cross-platform digital way of working that help people work better.

_{Design process:}^{1/ Work and workflows

2/ Prototype &testing

3/ Product to ecosystem

4/ Future scenarios}

^{What is the focused way of working?}
_{We did a quick mapping to understand all aspects of workflow, starting from reMarkable’s vision, mental models associated with user behaviours, and target group’s future of work.

One day intensive sprint workshop, 8 ideas,

1 affinity mapping, 2 round voting.}

We had 1 prototype for implementing audio transcript into reMarkable and then conducted 2 user testing. We learnt that how the task was carried out was heavily depend on workflow because everyone works differently.

^{1/Work and workflows:}
_{We have learnt that most people don’t consider reMarkable as the centre of the workflow, and they struggled to find their workflow with the tablet.}

^{Testing prototypes at reMarkable head office in Oslo(Above).}

^{2/ Prototype &testing}_{We use notetaking which everyone uses with remarkable as probes, to help us identify the scope and opportunity area.

We prototyped 5 concepts, from micro interactions to some new ways of working
using reMarkable.}

^{File format conversion for the next cross-platform operations}

Handwriting conversion and ai empowered content edit and curation

^{3/ Product to ecosystem}
_{Scenarios conceptualised at three levels of this ecosystem:
reM Device, reM cloud and internet.}

^{4/ Future scenarios}
_{We explored three features combining with scenario ranging from practical to speculative.

We use reMarkable’s analogue writing feature, and introduce new voice and AI integrations to explore new cloud based services.}

01 Analogue input
_{The first scenario was implementing analogue input (voice)

to support the existing workflow.}

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…before, during, after

^{02 Cloud-based service}

_{The second scenario was supporting their existing cloud-based service with search by highlighting, search in the library, and curating by keywords.}

^{03 Annotating}

_{In the third scenario, we defined four annotations work as the command for AI towards specific actions.}

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…before, during, after