Ideation

As a team, we wanted to work on romantic relationships. From there we chose to focus on the ambiguity in modern day dating. The team began by mapping out their current relationships and their phases. We spoke about these phases and chose to break them up into 'stages', 'actions', and 'emotions' to better understand the nuances of relationships.

From there, possible inputs and outputs were brainstormed to understand what we could sense and output. These were they discussed in tandem with the phases. As a team, it was decided that the final design should focus on moving forward or backward in a relationship - as opposed to the phases one may be moving away from or towards.