For this assignment I wanted to showcase what a child’s could be like in the next 20-30 years. Growing up I didn’t have all of this fancy technology that this generation of children have growing up. I had a Wii and i played with flip phones and saw that first generation of smart phones become a main stream item that everyone has. My design for my toy isn’t something that has really made an impact on the market yet but it will soon. The “toy” that I came up with is an Augmented Reality headset. When I see the future, I see kids entering into a digital place, a world that doesn’t exist yet, where there will be a 1:1 version of everything. The need to manufacture a toy will become obsolete. There wouldn’t be a need to make a physical product like a toy or a book. All the kid would have to do is put their headset on and experience a totally different world, maybe one that they created. This tool/toy/idea is so revolutionary and powerful that it might be the last thing we need to do- We could sit all day and go to work in virtually.
To showcase what we have been trying to work on in class, I put in a “comic-style” frame for presenting the images and used the Gestalt principle of closure in the virtual box around the bear in the large image to help influence my design. If I had more time I would love to add color to make the images come to life so that I could also make things look and feel a little bit more 3 dimensional. My AHA moment was when I was developing my idea for a “toy”; It took me a min to think of the possible area that this could affect and why it would be something that some people want. While designing and working on this, there were some problems I ran into, one being that I couldn’t get the bear to look like it was inside the box. It looked like it was sitting on one side of the box. I think one thing that I could have done to make this look more 3D adds a couple more lines to the back to make it look like it had a little more depth to it.