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Designing participatory systems starts with meeting people where they are.
My team's baseline for a new museum project? Printed labels and QR code wristbands. It’s what organizations use when they want "tech" on a budget.
But stress-test that against real human behavior, and the system breaks. Forcing a visitor to raise their wrist, open a camera app, and fight moody museum lighting kills immersion instantly.
They aren't engaging with the history; they're fighting a clunky interface. It completely ignores our hardwired daily muscle memory—like the seamless "tap-to-enter" behavior we use on our phones.
You don't need a massive budget to fix this. You just need to go off-grid and wireframe the physical world.
So how did I lightweight boostrap the solution for pennies?
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