UX DESIGNER & RESEARCHER
Problem: Ramen shops in Warsaw are very small places with a limited number of tables and very long queues in front of the doors. Those tables cannot be pre-booked. This situation excludes certain groups of people, because all ramen shop customers are treated equally.
Solution: The solution is a two-part process. First, each ramen shop that joins this program will create one table for an underrepresented group of people, which will be next to the entrance of the restaurant, will be low enough and have comfortable chairs. This table will be able to book through a mobile app or a phone call - and this is the second part we will focus on.
Problem: Ramen shops in Warsaw are very small places with a limited number of tables and very long queues in front of the doors. Those tables cannot be pre-booked. This situation excludes certain groups of people, because all ramen shop customers are treated equally.
Solution: The solution is a two-part process. First, each ramen shop that joins this program will create one table for an underrepresented group of people, which will be next to the entrance of the restaurant, will be low enough and have comfortable chairs. This table will be able to book through a mobile app or a phone call - and this is the second part we will focus on.
Challenge: How to design a collector's edition of a book that would stand out from all other publications in Poland. The theme is the Brda River.
Idea: Turn the book into an object by enclosing it in water from the river. Working together with designer Kasia Kubicka, we used fish packaging bags to vacuum-seal the book into them. Then we used water collected from the Brda river to surround the book with it, and sealed it together in a second bag. This was all accompanied by
a message, that the book's content had been modified. The idea was to put the user of the book in front of
a decision: whether to destroy the object and get into the book to see its content, or to leave the object intact.
The second thing we were curious about was how to store the book. Would the users have the courage to put
it on a shelf among other books, or would they find another safer place for it. The last aspect we were interested in was observing how the used river water blooms, making additional artifacts in the package, which create
a changing texture over time.
Challenge: How to design a collector's edition of a book that would stand out from all other publications in Poland. The theme is the Brda River.
Idea: Turn the book into an object by enclosing it in water from the river. Working together with designer Kasia Kubicka, we used fish packaging bags to vacuum-seal the book into them. Then we used water collected from the Brda river to surround the book with it, and sealed it together in a second bag. This was all accompanied by
a message, that the book's content had been modified. The idea was to put the user of the book in front of
a decision: whether to destroy the object and get into the book to see its content, or to leave the object intact.
The second thing we were curious about was how to store the book. Would the users have the courage to put
it on a shelf among other books, or would they find another safer place for it. The last aspect we were interested in was observing how the used river water blooms, making additional artifacts in the package, which create
a changing texture over time.
UX DESIGNER & RESEARCHER
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Problem: Ramen shops in Warsaw are very small places with a limited number of tables and very long queues in front of the doors. Those tables cannot be pre-booked. This situation excludes certain groups of people, because all ramen shop customers are treated equally.
Solution: The solution is a two-part process. First, each ramen shop that joins this program will create one table for an underrepresented group of people, which will be next to the entrance of the restaurant, will be low enough and have comfortable chairs. This table will be able to book through a mobile app or a phone call - and this is the second part we will focus on.
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Challenge: How to design a collector's edition of
a book that would stand out from all other publications in Poland. The theme is the Brda River.
Idea: Turn the book into an object by enclosing it in water from the river. Working together with designer Kasia Kubicka, we used fish packaging bags to vacuum-seal the book into them. Then we used water collected from the Brda river to surround the book with it, and sealed it together in a second bag. This was all accompanied by a message, that the book's content had been modified. The idea was to put the user of the book in front of a decision: whether to destroy the object and get into the book to see its content, or to leave the object intact. The second thing we were curious about was how to store the book. Would the users have the courage to put it on a shelf among other books, or would they find another safer place for it. The last aspect we were interested in was observing how the used river water blooms, making additional artifacts in the package, which create a changing texture over time.