Other Interfaces like Messenger have a range of features including polls, sharing your location, spliting the bill. As well as photos that can be captured and filters/doodles added to share with friends.

The app has a giff keyboard with emojies so the user can experess their emotions through moving images. The wide range of options can be overwhelming, but it allows range for different options.

Group chats or single catch ups are easliy accessable as well as voice recording that are Immediate. The ablity to keep prefessional and connect with businesses is what give this app the advantage against the market. Its link with instagram allows a seamless crossover, linking accounts and information instantly.

Instagram has an accessable video call feature. however its capped at 6 people per call. Filters also allow a fun way to interact face to face, without being self concious of surroundings. Unfauntently for professional calls this could be seen as innapropriate.

The diversity that is given through this concept allows people to customise and use their charagter seemlessley into apps like messenger. The ability for the app to track the face movements gives a good indication for the non verbal cues in visual commnication. These apps work by the versatile ability to work across all platforms.

Discord exels on its ability to be used while gaming, allowing the user to keep their focus as well as communicate. Like the other apps discord also has a share screen feature.

glowing circles around the names indicate who is talking at a given time. This makes it easier to pick up on the person speaking especially if you are not familier with thier voice.

Cameron hunter developed an AI that responds to the hand gestures or movements the user shows the camera. This removes the need for talking while also indicating what you mean. These common gestures are typically associated with the meaing like a thumbs up to show you understand.

What Did I learn?

When I first picked out this brief I was hoping to try something new, But I struggled when I cut myself short in making the idea too visual straignt away. I wanted an outcome quickly and didn’t expand upon my knowlege or look to other platforms that do work well.

In wanting to finalise the product so soon it left me stuggling with lingering on one idea and not investigating further into what else I could do. When I started asking myself ‘What if’ I could do this it opened up more opitunities. After learing more in speculative design, I came back to this idea with better expansion upon my original intentions. when I stoped overthinking the aethetic of the design and focued on the function, it was much easier to develop a wider range of suggestions I could add in.

I’m unsure if this is the direction I would choose to go in, However it was a fun project and I would love to see it taken further.

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I also found myself communicating to my family about the project and understanding what they would want from zoom, This gave a grater insight to a wider audience outside of university. Also helping me to generate ideas for change.

I think it helps students to put their work at the focus of teaching. They can still interact and help tutors to understand social cues but not at the expense of them feeling uncomfortable on camera.

The proposal works to create essentially an online classroom as it would be if replicated in real life. To help students feel in a more appropriate setting.