Apparently this project will now become a bit larger than I initially envisioned, however this new direction actually feels something I'm a lot more passionate about. I'll keep you posted!
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tisdag 1 oktober 2013
The Hipster's Guide to Italian Coffee - follow up
After one and a half day of working with the coffee guide I realized that I had to always fight an urge to editorialize the content in the application. Instead of fighting it I've now decided to give up, and instead of doing a regular coffee guide, I want the content in the application to be more from my perspective. This also lead to a reconceptualizing of the application to perhaps not only include different types of coffee, but also reviews, interviews with people working in the coffee business, etc.
torsdag 26 september 2013
The Hipster's Guide to Italian Coffee, intro
For a while now I've wanted to develop a digital guide to Italian coffee (one of my big life passions). I've had the silly word-play title "The Hipster's Guide to the Galaxy" kicking around for a while, and decided that the Italian coffee application could fit under that umbrella.
Real concept development of this idea started last Friday, when I was sketching ideas for how to navigate through all the different types of coffee, and considering the hierarchical structure. Based on experience I gathered during my thesis project (here), I wanted to encourage a exploratory navigation through the application, and probably a flat hierarchical structure.
I realize that this is not a new app-concept, and have already checked out a few of the ones that are available on Google Play. However, those are often pretty utilitarian in their looks, and at least a few of them seem to be aimed more at the home espresso machine owner, than my target group: the trend-sensitive hipster that wants to stump the local super-smug, fixie-riding, arm-tattooed barista.
This left me deciding to go with a side-menu navigation, with a list of the different types of coffee. Since I want the app to be a bit eye-catching, rather than utilitarian, I decided to test out a few different graphical styles. I played around with different illustrations as well, but couldn't really find the tone. In the end I found this inspiring poster on visual.ly called Exceptional Expressions of Espresso, by the Pop Chart Lab, and decided to incorporate that into my prototype, just for mock-up purposes. The idea is to replicate a similar kind of visual language going forward, but with illustrations that are a bit more flat (and of course non-copyright infringing).
Final result after almost two days of work can be seen below:
Real concept development of this idea started last Friday, when I was sketching ideas for how to navigate through all the different types of coffee, and considering the hierarchical structure. Based on experience I gathered during my thesis project (here), I wanted to encourage a exploratory navigation through the application, and probably a flat hierarchical structure.
I realize that this is not a new app-concept, and have already checked out a few of the ones that are available on Google Play. However, those are often pretty utilitarian in their looks, and at least a few of them seem to be aimed more at the home espresso machine owner, than my target group: the trend-sensitive hipster that wants to stump the local super-smug, fixie-riding, arm-tattooed barista.
This left me deciding to go with a side-menu navigation, with a list of the different types of coffee. Since I want the app to be a bit eye-catching, rather than utilitarian, I decided to test out a few different graphical styles. I played around with different illustrations as well, but couldn't really find the tone. In the end I found this inspiring poster on visual.ly called Exceptional Expressions of Espresso, by the Pop Chart Lab, and decided to incorporate that into my prototype, just for mock-up purposes. The idea is to replicate a similar kind of visual language going forward, but with illustrations that are a bit more flat (and of course non-copyright infringing).
Final result after almost two days of work can be seen below:
TODO:
- user test on someone (urgently), something that's difficult when you're home alone developing
- add a bunch of more variations of coffee, and also expand the descriptions
- replace all the "borrowed" material from the coffee poster with my own beautiful Inkscape-products
PS. If you have the IP rights of the poster, and you don't want it featured on this site, drop me a line and I'll remove the images.
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