The assignment was as follows: “navigation design: help the user do what they want, and find what they don't know they are looking for. The following are general rules to follow when designing navigation in a web site. There are only rules and, as the saying goes, rules are made to be broken--just have a good reason to break them.
Are you excited yet and would you like to interact with this bag? Click on the image below and have fun!

Designing an interface, why not use fabric? Great, but slowly and surely we weren’t so convinced anymore why fabric got us excited in the first place. Is there a need for interactive textile? Would this be useful to people, why designing with fabric?
After while we came to realize, maybe approach it with a different perception. Fabric is fun and it is all around us. Isn’t it already simulating us? I think visiting the  “wired festival” and being introduced to the “hug sweater” was certainly an inspiration. For once that there is so much undiscovered potential in fabric and secondly a hypothetical approach could be interesting and innovative.

For more specifics and an in-depth inside into our research process, struggles, and experimentations please click on the image below and visit the interactive bag website.