Fluid Engage is building flexible software with museums and cultural institutions to enhance their visitors' experience. Engage makes it easy for visitors to connect with content, interact with objects, and extend the museum visit.
On this page, you can find our design work on a museum mobile application, museum kiosk interface and chassis, and general museum contextual research.
Mobile
This project is a collaboration with the McCord Museum, Montreal, Canada and produced a mobile application that allowed visitors to view the museum's collections. The links below are examples of the latest developments:
> Latest wireframes: Draft 9
> Latest interaction flow diagram (PDF): Draft 9
> Latest user testing results: Draft 9, Engage 0.3
> Benchmark of iPhone and mobile in museums
> Twitters from MoMA's "What features would you like in an museum iPhone app?"
> See all in mobile
Kiosk
This project is a collaboration with the Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, USA and produced a physical kiosk experience that allowed visitors to view, select and print themed tours. The links below are examples of the latest developments:
> Kiosk design overview
> Latest wireframes: Draft 6
> Latest 3D Rendering: Draft 1
> Physical kiosk design sketches
> See all in kiosk
Contextual research
Our community of designers have adopted many different methods to analyze the mobile and physical kiosk design space. The links below are some examples of this work:
> Field research on museums
> General principles for designing visitor-facing museum tools
> Tagging & metadata
> Spatial mapping
> See all in contextual research
Design repository
We keep our files in Fluid's subversion repository: http://source.fluidproject.org/svn/design/engage
If you're new to using subversion, see: Subversion for Fluid designers using Versions
Design tasks
Current and past iterations of design activities can be found in our JIRA.
Communications
Design communication is done over the fluid-work mailing list. Meetings about specific design issues are announced over the list and added to the Fluid calendar.
Participation by everyone in our design communications over the list and in our meetings is welcome and encouraged!