Research and development of iterative prototypes that been taken further by IRISS's design team. 

A set of cards were designed for support providers to prompt action towards the prevention of loneliness and isolation among older people.

 

View or download the cards here 
http://www.iriss.org.uk/news/plan-p-prompt-cards-published

 

Team Orientation Notebook:
http://jiarushi.weebly.com/uploads/2/6/7/4/26742300/orientation_notes.pdf 

 

  Skills
- Participant recruitment 
- Interviewing
- Sense making
- Concept development
- Rapid paper prototyping
- User testing
- Visualization
- Adobe InDesign, Illustrator & Photoshop

Analysing the pricinple under the breif. 

The conclusion we got was that people need to be aware of things which may lead to lonliness and making possitive influence before the elderly fall into depression.

Our team decided to design the prompt cards towards practitioners instead of people who have portential to be lonley. "Recogonize this...?" with an image to describe a group of situations users may come across, and suggestions or tools is on the back of the card to prompt to solutions.

To get feedback from the field, we went to a clinic in Fife and test our prototypes with 4 practitioners. Feedback was mostly on the usability of tools we listed on the back of card and the familarity of situations we gave in the front of these cards. 

Teams did many prototypes of the formate before digitalized them, and find that simple illustration with one sentence on the front is the most direct and clear way to help users find their challenges. And clear instructions with tools, scale, instructions on the back is the best way to give out clear suggestions,