Dexter Kowalski

Industrial Design, 2020

Walking at night can be quite a peaceful experience. Although this experience within larger cities, or places you might not be as familiar with, can be unsettling. Without a partner to walk with at night, you become more vulnerable to deviant acts and dangerous people.

Amble seeks to aide with this issue. By the use of custom and pre-made routes, the user can set paths by which they are going to walk. These routes are displayed on a map that shows possible hazards in the area that have been updated by other users and local emergency services. If you need to deviate from your route for any reason, Amble with detect this and send a live tracking link to your emergency contacts so they will know where you are at all times. The band gives another point of contact with the app; sending you notifications through haptic feedback and interaction with the app via touch controls.

Dexter Kowalski is a Columbus based designer devoted to solving common issues in a beautiful, meaningful, and effective way, that not only makes the user consider the products, but admire them. Through his four years here at The Ohio State University, he has fostered an appreciation for collaboration and cross-disciplinary activities in and around the field of design.

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