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Thursday, January 15, 2004
miLife Project Kick-Off
My team for our semester-long project for Microsoft consists of me, Hong, CPIDer Jennifer Anderson, and Chun-Yi Chen. I think it's a pretty solid team and we should do well on this project.We had our "kick-off meeting" (as we used to call them in my agency days) with the client, in the form of a conference call with Michael Lenahan, User Experience Manager in the Mobile PC Group, to get more details about the project. As it turns out, the project constraints are fairly minimal. It should be a mobile device, preferably in the "thin and light" or "ultra-mobile PC (UMPC)" range, which means a 4-14" display, 2-4lbs, and connection via wifi. The design that we come up with should be able to be executed within the next three-five years. It must build on users' needs to be mobile throughout the day, yet be more than just a transportable device. It should work on a Windows platform, but there's no MS constraints on style. In fact, it's supposed to be "a product [that users would think] would never come out of Microsoft." The hardware form should be "personal and relevant." We were shown a marketing piece for MS Media Center as an example of the type of "casual, lifestyle" products they were interested in having us create. There's no set target audience. It's very wide open. We have a lot of work to do.
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