Yes! I was wondering how to make the object feel personal and unique. Adding picture is a great idea! You could use a pocket printer like this one to print pictures regularly and update them.
I also agree with having one device per group to keep the affordance clear.
We tried to realize a prototype from a raspberry pi nano with a friend, but it was pretty hard to deal with the audio, only larger device would support it through micro jack plug.
Any idea on how to make an MVP (actually 2!) in a weekend?
Sadly, I have no experience with hardware, so no ideas for the MVP.
I also agree with having one device per group to keep the affordance clear.
After thinking some more about it… I feel ambiguous. Like, groups like “family” and “friends” are best kept on different devices.
But consider the structure of “family”—it is not transitive; the cousins of my cousins are not my cousins. The device would work best if everyone keeps the same definition of the family, but should I ask my cousins to exclude their cousins, just so that I don’t get messages from strangers?
Should I have separate devices for family on my mother’s side, and on my father’s side? I suspect that the answer will be yes… any complication would probably be too complicated for non-tech people. But I don’t feel very sure about that. Multiple devices are also annoying; you have to buy or recharge batteries.
Or maybe (past MVP) the devices should come with two versions? A “non-tech” version, with one device per group. And a “tech” version, with multiple groups per device. Each group has a mute switch—when the group is muted, you won’t even get notification that there is a message in queue.
...anyway, do the one device = one group for MVP, but there may be things to consider later.
Yes! I was wondering how to make the object feel personal and unique. Adding picture is a great idea! You could use a pocket printer like this one to print pictures regularly and update them.
I also agree with having one device per group to keep the affordance clear.
We tried to realize a prototype from a raspberry pi nano with a friend, but it was pretty hard to deal with the audio, only larger device would support it through micro jack plug. Any idea on how to make an MVP (actually 2!) in a weekend?
Sadly, I have no experience with hardware, so no ideas for the MVP.
After thinking some more about it… I feel ambiguous. Like, groups like “family” and “friends” are best kept on different devices.
But consider the structure of “family”—it is not transitive; the cousins of my cousins are not my cousins. The device would work best if everyone keeps the same definition of the family, but should I ask my cousins to exclude their cousins, just so that I don’t get messages from strangers?
Should I have separate devices for family on my mother’s side, and on my father’s side? I suspect that the answer will be yes… any complication would probably be too complicated for non-tech people. But I don’t feel very sure about that. Multiple devices are also annoying; you have to buy or recharge batteries.
Or maybe (past MVP) the devices should come with two versions? A “non-tech” version, with one device per group. And a “tech” version, with multiple groups per device. Each group has a mute switch—when the group is muted, you won’t even get notification that there is a message in queue.
...anyway, do the one device = one group for MVP, but there may be things to consider later.