Saturday, March 8, 2008

The Secret Box- User Scenerio

In the shuffle of the morning traffic 19 year old Kali LeOene finally makes if off the train and in to the main part of Union, follows the crowd. Finially makes it to the Subway, she pushes her token in and gets on. After 3 stops she finnally gets off at St. Patrick and goes up to the busy morning street. Around the corner and to the grange she walks qucikly, because she doesnt want to be late. She qucikly grabs a tea and power walks across the street to the main building of OCAD. Pushing the orange doors and up the spiral stairs, she goes to class, stressed and feeling rushed. Like many of the students at OCAD, Kali loves doodling and writing all over her note books. 3 hours and 100 doodles later, Kali packs her bag and head down the hall and towards the spirally stairs. Once down the stairs she bumps into her friend Lua Jo and they both see many people down by the auditorium. Interested they heads over. They read the sign "First Year, Introduction to Experience Design." Interested, they enter the room to see a line up of people outside of a big while box, big enough for about 20 people to go inside. They decide to get in line so they can go in the box. While waiting in line they read the sign above the box "The Secrets Box" and wonder what it means.
Finally 4 people and Kali are next in line and they all get handed a Sharpie, and are told that they have to go into the box and write an anonymous secret that they have always had. Leaving Lua in line, she goes inside and it is a big white room of canvus, she finds an empty spot away from everyone else and starts writing. The groups 1 minute is up and they all leave smiling and feeling satisfied. She then waits for her friend. Lua comes out and looks extremely amazed by what she has just seen. Kali asks why she is so happy and she starts talking about how there was a black light and white writing all over the walls. Confused by what happened they started other people what they saw. Then then realized that every other group saw something different. The first group goes in with Black sharpies and White walls and write their secrets, just like Kali did. Then the Second group goes in and the lights are off, except for a black light, and write with invisible markers. So they can only see the writing of the invisible markers, where as Kalis group could only see the black writing. They finally realize that it really was more then just writing a secret, it was them not seeing 1/2 the secrets other people had written and creating a new peice of art work.

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