After doing extensive research, both desk and field research, I found out that the existence of digital collections was not yet known enough to the target group. My own survey showed that out of the 117 respondents, 77% has never visited an online collection before and 72% of that group did not even know it existed at all.

First I had to think about what I actually wanted to create. After many ideas a I settled on a concept similar to hidden object games. Where the user needs to find objects in a room. This way I could tell the beautiful stories of the object in a fun way and gradually introduce the concept of an online collection to the users.

The main problem at this stage was the abundance of items. With more than 150.000 items I had to seriously cut down an choose what items I wanted to use. Luckily the museum already had a small selection of items with a detailed background story so I could easily use these items. Now I could start making sketches, wireframes and prototypes.

I created a story where the users is visiting a farmer who has collected different kinds of items each with it's own story. There are two rooms where the objects are placed in, so the user can explore on their own. Afters this setup I worked on micro-animations, the game aspect and further styling of the entire project.

I wanted to make the users feel like they could see themselfs in the room. A big part of making this happen was making all the objects look like they were actually placed in the room. So with Photoshop I cut out each object and placed it in one of the two rooms where that object would logically fit.