As a result of my first iteration’s feedback, I decided to take a more synthetic approach and try to simplify the notation system, avoiding being too literal and instead focusing on core elements of the actions that it intends to convey.
In that way, the new version of the notation system focuses on the movements needed to use a door. And given that there are many different type of doors, I decided to design individual “guides” depending on the type of door in question.
The three columns on each guide correspond to the point of view represented (front, top, rear).
As part of my “Formulate” project, I decided to stretch the functionality of Google Maps, one of the apps I use most frequently. However, this time I wasn’t interested in knowing the location of nowhere or get the directions to nothing. This time I set myself to try to DRAW with Google Maps.
To get started I thought of simple shapes and if it would be possible to achieve them. I chose straight-line figures, so I had clear “touching points” I could refer to. Then, using London as a base, I asked Google Maps to give me directions to each of the edges of each figure as destinations. This way I got the directions to do each route by foot, by bicycle and by car.
The results were interesting:
After doing this, I wondered what would be the results if I did the exact same thing, but in a different city. So I chose two different cities, each one of them more different than the other: Mexico City and New York City. To do so, I followed the same parameters, including the scale.
For me, it was interesting to explore how mucho would these figures change, especially considering the very different conditions between cities, such as their layout and their relation to water (London has a river going through the middle of the city, Mexico City sits on top of a lake but no longer has a connection to it, and NYC IS pretty much an island in the middle of a river).
Finally, I found it captivating to compare each one of these options between each other and find out what happened:
So far, for me has been interesting to explore all the possible outcomes there can automatically be in Google Maps asking for a route and using the exact same points as destinations, only changing the way of transportation and the cities in question.
