Any product and/or UI design folks on the list who might be willing to take a look at this?
Cheers! Gautam On Thu, Mar 6, 2008 at 9:36 AM, Gautam John <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hello Silk-Listers: > > I'm forwarding a mail from a colleague, at a project called the > Literacy Bridge [1], that I'm working with. They are looking st: > > "...building the Talking Book Device, a low cost audio player and > recorder, for children and adults in the developing world. Children > and adults will use the device for literacy learning and knowledge > sharing... [and] are also building the Content Distribution Network > that will make the audio content accessible to all the potential > users." > > Their guidelines are to make this: > > * Affordable - $5 device that the users can buy themselves. > * Accessible - The Content Distribution Network will use currently > available transportation and communications network. > * Relevant - The content will be produced by local organizations and > users themselves. > * Sustainable - We will collaborate with local organizations to design > and build the systems. We aim to serve as catalyst to local businesses > that manufacture, market, sell and support the device and network, > creating a sustainable eco-system. > > They have come up with some conceptual sketches for the device and the > interface and are soliciting feedback on it. However, a request from > the project is that they did not want wide distribution of the > sketches so if anyone is interested you could ping me, I'll send you > them separately. > > Cheers! > > -Gautam > > [1] http://literacybridge.org/ > > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: Cliff Schmidt > Date: Thu, Mar 6, 2008 at 9:16 AM > Subject: Conceptual sketches of the Talking Book > To: Gautam > > > Hi Gautam, > > > > Attached is a PDF with three different conceptual sketches that our > industrial designer came up with. It is unlikely that we will go with > any of these just as they are, but please let me know if you > particularly like or dislike any aspect of any of these sketches (e.g. > color, shape, button layout, etc). > > I won't mention all the requirements we gave the designer, but here > are a few big ones: > > - The device can play audio content, record new content, and share > content with other devices and kiosks. (The USB port isn't shown > here.) > - The device will be used by children and adults both as a literacy > learning tool and as a means of accessing knowledge in an audio form. > - The device unit cost should be as affordable as possible. > - The device should be able to be carried by a lanyard. > - The device should allow storing and selecting multiple pieces of > audio content, and navigating easily within them. > > Feel free to share this with your colleagues, but please explain that > I do not want these sketches distributed publicly on the Web. > > Cliff >
