[Experience Design] Fiction & Futures: iBeep - connect you with your dream job

This short fictional video is created by Wenyi, Steven and Hannah for the purpose of envisioning a future product iBeep that uses a new technology.

Please be aware that this video is only used for educational purpose.

Promotion video created by our team

Video clip [2:55-3:10] source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qLsn5ZMhgu4

Context & Design Rationale

Time: 2025

Event: the annual student showcase event

Location: The hangar at school (CDM)

Problems we are solving:

Some students are not good at networking with potential employers and don't know what to say and do properly. They need some external help that assists them in socializing.

Solution:

iBeep - connect you with your dream job. It is a pair of intelligent earphones with a build-in personal AI assistant

Interactions:

Users touch iBeep to activate it and turn it off. iBeep monitors users’ heart rate and gives them suggestions to socialize.

Visualization:

Instead of shooting the video in real-life scenes, we use heartbeat rhythms, emojis and a dark background to visualize character's emotions.

Highlight one side (positive or negative) of the new technology.

Team:

Script writing & storyboarding: Wenyi Gong

Sound design & video editing: Hong (Steven) Sun

Visual effects & video editing: Hang (Hannah) Zheng

Design process

4 ways of telling the same story

#1: 1st POV

Tell the story From the 1st person point of view (POV)

Storyboard for the 1st POV

#2: 1st & 3rd POV

Use 1st person perspective and switch to 3rd person perspective to tell the story

Storyboard for the 1st & 3rd POV

#3: Flashback

The ending comes first, and the character recalls what has happened.

Storyboard for the Flashback

#4: Heartbeat rhythm

Use the character’s heartbeat rhythm and emojis to visualize the scene and his/her emotions.

Storyboard for heartbeat rhythms

© Wenyi Gong, Hong Sun, Hang Zheng 2019