Rider Guider
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Rider Guider is a product created in MIT's product design class 2.009 by a team of 19 students including myself. It was inspired by the theme "outdoors" and provided a solution to the growing number of bicycling accidents due to distraction. The product is a navigation system which feeds directions from an app onto a user's handlebars, giving them tactile directions through intuitively coded vibrations.
First, our team considered the problem:
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And imagined the solution:
![](https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/4173ecf0288b786154096014a11aedf6ed344d9c7ee46ec22b96b8922efbdc1a/sol1_o.png)
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The product flow is simple. A smartphone app relays directions through bluetooth to a navigation module, or 'box', on the bike. This module then activates vibrations in corresponding grips of either handlebar, instructing the cyclist of his or her next turn:
![](https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/9aa3d4036d6464fa8667175a797f60dca727d30a9281f153d8b83fa8fe544f94/flow_o.png)
(diagram is my work)
The app UI is slim and modern:
![](https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/e37507bf8d1ff889ed442d5ce1fbe0cf074ccc93e09cd495ed3915450f460559/ui1_o.png)
![](https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/2bbe76bf52bece76e80e11ce8de187e98989defcc3d254def3ad862f3dca1603/ui2_o.png)
(Concept, Design, and Graphics my work)
The final prototype was fully functioning and integrated.
![](https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/08aeb00d7577712724174e4fc099599bd90bf9410b14a98e0b84a7483ccd46cf/renders_o.jpg)
(Renderings not my work)