My Journey into Human-Computer Interaction

  Rapid Prototyping After weeks of research and conceptual design, it finally felt like time to bring DriveShare to life. Until this point, DriveShare existed as a shared idea — a parking app that lets homeowners rent their driveways to drivers looking for affordable parking. But rapid prototyping turned that concept into something tangible, something I could touch, test, and learn from. The First Attempt: Turning the Idea into Reality Our first version was anything but polished — and that’s what made it exciting. We started with paper sketches to map out the user flow: the home screen, the map with available driveways, and a simple “Book Now” button. These hand-drawn screens helped us visualize the experience quickly, without worrying about pixels or code. Once we had a few sketches we liked, I moved them into  Figma  to create a clickable digital prototype. It was minimalistic — no fancy animations, no deep backend — just the essentials: A map interface with pins sh...

  Introduction In my previous blog, I reflected on how user research helped my team rethink our direction and move from an AR Cooking Assistant to a more practical, everyday concept: DriveShare —a peer-to-peer parking app that allows homeowners to rent out their driveways to drivers looking for affordable, reliable parking. This blog is about the creative process that followed—how our team transformed research findings into a visual story through brainstorming, design planning, and finally, our DriveShare concept video . The journey taught me that bringing an idea to life isn’t only about visuals or technology—it’s about empathy, storytelling, and making the design feel real. From Idea to Solution: Shaping the Concept After completing our user interviews, we discovered that trust and safety mattered as much as cost. That finding shifted how we defined DriveShare’s core purpose: not just to make parking cheaper, but to make it predictable and secure for both drivers and homeo...