Week 8 Studio: Where does the arrow go?

Students place a lane-departure and a following-distance warning on a printed windscreen photo and argue about how far into central vision an alert is allowed to intrude

12 April 2027

Before the studio#

Bring your Redesign a Warning draft (due this Friday) in whatever state it’s in — even a chosen alert with no rationale written yet counts.

In the studio#

Idris hands out a printed driver’s-eye photograph of a windscreen with no HUD graphics on it. In pairs, students sketch directly onto the printout where a lane-departure warning should appear, then do the same on a fresh copy for a following-distance warning, using tracing paper so both can be compared against the same base photo. The placements are then pinned up together and argued over: who put the warning low and small, who put it large and central, and what each pair was optimising for — speed of noticing versus how much of the actual road the graphic covers. The session closes by testing every placement against one hard case: a driver a head shorter than the one the photo was taken from, whose eye position no longer lines up with anyone’s sketch.

Afterwards#

Keep both annotated sketches — they’re useful evidence for the “craft and presentation” criterion on Assessment 2 if your redesigned alert involves a HUD or windscreen element. Idris is available for the rest of the session to workshop Redesign a Warning drafts ahead of Friday’s deadline.