MuseUs: Museum Companion
We all visit museums for different reasons. This project hopes to determine what those reasons are and help cater to museum-goers' needs.
Aims
MuseUs aims to create an accessible mobile edutainment platform for museum visitors, centred around discovery, learning, reflection, and discussion in museum settings. This project attempts to incorporate gamification and social elements into the museum experience and empower users to shift their role from passive consumers of information to collaborators, active participants in the learning and entertainment process.
Background
MuseUs started with the vague idea of a museum 'helper', an app to augment the experience of a museum visitor, elevating them from a passive consumer to an active participant.
The final idea is an app that allows users to collect knowledge, reflect on it, and share it with others. This concept was solidified by a talk from Hannah Mason-Macklin on the concept of a "museum in progress" (TEDx Talks, 2019). According to the talk, a museum in progress invites its visitors to add their own experiences and knowledge to the exhibition itself, empowering the community to engage in storytelling and knowledge-sharing as a group. The museum in this instance becomes more of a backdrop, a facilitator of conversation and a communal space where all the elements needed for conversation â the subjects and the medium â are available for community use. MuseUs will attempt to bring this concept to the digital space, offering the "museum in progress" community experience even in museum spaces that haven't been actively designed for it.
Target audience
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User interviews
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Personas
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User Journey maps
It all begins with an idea. Maybe you want to launch a business. Maybe you want to turn a hobby into something more. Or maybe you have a creative project to share with the world. Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.
Paper prototype
It all begins with an idea. Maybe you want to launch a business. Maybe you want to turn a hobby into something more. Or maybe you have a creative project to share with the world. Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.
Testing
It all begins with an idea. Maybe you want to launch a business. Maybe you want to turn a hobby into something more. Or maybe you have a creative project to share with the world. Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.
Med-fi prototype
It all begins with an idea. Maybe you want to launch a business. Maybe you want to turn a hobby into something more. Or maybe you have a creative project to share with the world. Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.
Information architecture
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Design principles
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Visual design
It all begins with an idea. Maybe you want to launch a business. Maybe you want to turn a hobby into something more. Or maybe you have a creative project to share with the world. Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.
Hi-fi prototype
It all begins with an idea. Maybe you want to launch a business. Maybe you want to turn a hobby into something more. Or maybe you have a creative project to share with the world. Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.
Testing
It all begins with an idea. Maybe you want to launch a business. Maybe you want to turn a hobby into something more. Or maybe you have a creative project to share with the world. Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.
Final thoughts
It all begins with an idea. Maybe you want to launch a business. Maybe you want to turn a hobby into something more. Or maybe you have a creative project to share with the world. Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.