The break and Ideas

First off, over the holiday we were required to make a dairy of how much power we used each day.  During this I discovered many thing about the device I used to record the energy that were really bad design flaws.

Firstly was the size of the device.  Because it was so large, it made it difficult to plug it into some power points that are behind desks and then also plug the devices being recorded.  This also made it hard to read as it was behind something and in the dark, which brings me on to my second point that the screen did not light up.  This made it very difficult to read in the places that a lot of power points are positioned.  My final annoyance at the device was the readings on the device did not seem like they would make much sense to somebody with no understanding of power to begin with.  Also the manual and the device did little to explain the meaning of the numbers on the screen.

Using this device helped a lot in deciding what not to do and over the break I tried to think of ideas for this project, but it wasn't until today that I started to come up with ideas that could actually be a project.  As you can see above in the photo most of the ideas are for how the interface could work but not actually what it should be.  The idea I liked the best was a monster that consumes the energy that you waste and becomes larger and starts running around the interface being generally terrifying.  For Friday I hope to expand this idea and also try and come up with another idea as this is the only idea I like so far, which does not help me if this idea can not be achieved for a reason.