UX Designer

Mole Messenger

 

Mole Messenger is a pair of connected pushable interfaces that function as a communicative device.

They facilitate physical communication between children who are physically apart, like siblings living in different countries.

 

Group Project for MIT Media Lab Tangible Interfaces

My Role
Product vision
Interaction design
coding support
Concept Video

TEAMmates
Maggie George
Xiaoyan Shen
Stephan Hernandez
Yang Liu

 

Concept Video

 
 
 

Interaction design

mm_interaction_sketch.jpg
 
 
 

Prototyping

Yang Liu(left) gets feedback from Arthur Liu(right), who has a younger brother in Shanghai.

Yang Liu(left) gets feedback from Arthur Liu(right), who has a younger brother in Shanghai.

Arduino prototyping process with step motor, force sensor, and XBee Bluetooth communicators.

Arduino prototyping process with step motor, force sensor, and XBee Bluetooth communicators.