Mid semester critique

The main influence I received in my Middle semester critique has come from a suggestion of Daria Loi :

“If the scope is that of testing whether people will choose on the basis of craft, concept or trend, it is better in my opinion if Antonio designs the same object (or family of objects) with the 3 approaches – this will help him avoid situations where people choose for instance a mobile phone because they need one or are more interested in that type of artefact”

“The final option might be ideal and anyway it’s already on the market: it’s called ‘mobile phone with integrated extras’… i.e. the majority of current mobiles…”

Daria thought that offering as choice three different products, would influence people’s choice. They would prefer, for example, a mobile phone to a watch just because the first one includes the second one.

The goal of my research is to understand if people are interested more in fashionable, conceptual or handicraft products, choosing these three different design processes as the main approaches of my design process.

I accepted her suggestion, and thinking about what she defined ‘mobile phone with integrated extras’, I have called the ‘new’ product: DATA PHONE, as electronic device able to let us access to every kind of data:

Audio, video including information and multimedia.