Edwina Liao

Qoi

Designed with Aksa Abraham and Pham Truong Giang

2021

create · narrate

Build the world you want to see and tell it with Qoi, a system that lets your stories come to life

“To design and build an interactive object for children and their families. 

Building challenges that spark collaborative interactions while leaving space for individual expression.”

meet Casey Kim!

Casey is our co-designer. Hence, meeting her was the most important and first step in our design process. We build a rapport with her and got to learn her interests and who she is as a person. We took this chance to familiarize ourselves with her behaviour, habits, and routine. 

Problem Statement 

Considering the age of the co-designer as well as the material in play, here are some challenges: 

• boost creativity/imagination 

• bring a balance between open-ended and intuitive 

• consider more than the user 

• regard the chance of alternative uses 

• develop good habits 

• repetitive elements 

• strengthen family bonds 

Primary Research 

This involves establishing a connection with the co-designer. Throughout this stage, we will be interacting with the family and building an understanding of our subject. The information collected will be beneficial in ideating our interactive object. 

Secondary Research 

Our secondary research will be conducted collectively to have a better understanding of the object and it will be explored through the following themes: 

• modularity 

• the importance of surface

• colour psychology 

• scale

Function

• a tool to facilitate story-telling 

• different platforms can be arranged according to the user’s preference with the help of pegs and holes 

• the pegs are designed to hold pieces of drawings that tell parts of a story.

• additional pieces like the pulleys and screws help give a dynamic feel to the interactive object. 

Skill 

• storytelling 

• communication 

• organization 

• strategic thinking