The wireframes shown below are the first sketches I created. This was during the process when I changed my name from Arcadia to MY MRI, but at that stage, I wasn’t sure if MY MRI was the appropriate name to use. A similarity between this draft and my final one is that they require controller/s to navigate, unlike my original idea to use eye-tracking. There are some features that may be similar also, but overall the layout and design is different.
To begin, the idea of this design was that the logo and wordmark would be displayed in the centre with it’s own area of content, as shown below. This is quite similar to what my final design is displayed like, as I thought this was an effective way of introducing my app. The background design is an ongoing idea, even still to this day. It is quite difficult to decide what would be a suitable background image for my app especially, as it targets all age groups from teenage to elderly people. For this particular design, I got my influence from the Oculus Rift setup page, the first time a user uses the VR headset. They use floating bubbles of all sizes as their background image, while the user sets up the headset. It consists of nice calming colours and soft transitions, which is easy on the eye. A trait that I wanted to interpret in my design.
This was my idea for the main menu page, so the user could access whatever page they wanted, all on one page. This ranged from the content page, the scan simulation to the settings page and even personalisation tab. Looking back I decided that this layout wasn’t suitable, as there is too many tabs to select, which can be quite confusing to the user, especially the older audience. I felt it wasn’t as simplistic as I wanted it to be. There was too many unnecessary features. The reason I felt this way was when I was conducting research and came across an Oculus rift presentation, where there were two VR designers discussing about how to create an effective and user-friendly interface, like the Oculus Rift. You can click the link to see the full video **here**
Within the content page, the user has a navigation bar on the left-side of the screen which they can use to read through each category of the MRI process, giving them a better understanding of how the machine is used. From this page, the user can access the other pages displayed on the main menu from the navigation bar on the left. A disadvantage of this design is that the buttons and links are quite small for the user to see, especially if they have impaired vision. As well as this, as previously stated, the overall design can be confusing for users and involves too much interactions.