On Friday my tutor, Helen was away sick so our group got split up and was mixed in among the other groups. I was in Byron's group and he gave an interesting new perspective to the 'flicker' (yay a name). The ideas he bought up about my object were based on the fact that as the flicker was currently designed it was not very intuitive. So thinking about this I realized that I could not figure out how to do this with out actually making the object, so over the weekend I made this prototype.
While fidgeting with it over the weekend I found that the paper seemed too dense to get a satisfactory flick to it so on Monday I made a new mock up with a smaller sheet of paper between each larger bit of paper, as a spacer. I found that flicking the one with the spacers felt better when flicking and most people agree. One thing I did notice about the 2nd prototype was that it did not wear as fast or in the same way as the first. The 1st prototype started to curl its edges after about five minutes of playing with it, the 2nd has not really started curling, even after over 2 hours of playing with it and letting multiple people have a go at it.
Even though the wearing of the 'flicker' was the original idea, I have been told been told by my tutor that I should focus on getting the sound and feel of the 'flicker' right first. So because everyone likes the flick of the 2nd prototype better I shall extend this idea further.
Also in todays studio Helen told me that i should try to figure out how to make the 'flicker' look less like a pile of paper and more like an object people would want to buy. So for Fridays studio I am going to make at least half a dozen more prototypes for people to try out, using different paper to see how this affects the flick and seeing how short or long the paper has to be to get the best flick... EVER.
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