Baxter

The evolution of the analogue
fingerprint procedure

Analogue fingerprinting serves a big role when it comes to crime scene investigation. This project revolved around how to streamline and unify the procedure and to make a realistic and tangible concept that could be implemented in a near future.

Project: Umeå Institute of Design
Collaboration partner: Swedish Police
Participants: solo
Time span: 12 weeks
When: winter 2021

A messy procedure

The analogue process of taking fingerprints is time consuming and non-unified. By analysing and trying out the procedure myself,  numerous pain points arose that clearly showed that this vital procedure could be improved.

Streamlining and simplifying the procedure

Getting green light on concept direction after feedback and evaluation with the Police

Form & CMF

How it works 

Putting it on

Taking the fingerprint

Extracting the fingerprint

Documenting

Learning outcome

– Iterative process
– Making analogue mockups
– Developing a functional concept 

This project was all about the analogue. Making rapid mockups and prototypes really helped me to understand which direction was the most favourable for the concept. Developing a final prototype that is almost fully functional was also a big learning in different ways.