Week 12

Its all over red rover ! I am stoked with the way in which my project has turned out, I think the dossier came out really well. I had a few problems with files going missing and bad file management which gave me abit of grief. But I think I have comprised a well rounded strategy for a plausible project that I think could be executed which is something I am very proud of. The only thing I would do differently would be making a short video that would show the project in action from the web to the app to the intermission taking place, but I am only one man and ran out of time to execute this.

Week 11

Week 11

This week my project has been in full swing coming up with new touch points and way in which they can be adapted to be more engaging for my user group. I got some awesome feedback from Mark around creating a community and inspiring more interaction so this has been my focus for the week. I have altered the feed on my website to make it more user driven which I think will work well and am planning to do something similar for the zine. For week 12 I need to finalise these touch points and make sure I have my approach and user journey ideas sorted. Overall I am feeling very good about the work.

Week 10

Crit

My laptop was being repaired at this point so I didn't have access to my files for crit which was a real bummer because I was hope for some feedback on my aesthetic choice I started working towards. However when I get it back I will be able to get some constructive feedback.
I wrote my idea on some paper and placed it out with my workbook and received some feedback about my wording, I used the word hub which people did not understand which was fair enough.

I am moving forward with my app expanding it into a website and also changing up the content to make it more exciting, almost creating a brand identity more than just a an app which is a lot of fun so far.

Week 9

Testing

This week I did lots of testing of ideas within my app, finding out what it is that people want.
I started to look into features that are need and what I can discard in order to streamline the process.
I had positive feedback from my peers on the word which was good but I need to move towards a new aesthetic as I am not happy with it at the moment

Journey Map

I started to look at what kind of other touch points could be useful or my project and I have decided poster are an easy way to inform people so that is where I will start but I am excited about the prospects of developing other cool touch points.

Week 8

Thursday

Prototyping- I found this session pretty hard to interact with so early in the piece as I didn't really know where to start, my idea was not developed or defined enough to start making or testing. However I did continue to brainstorm and work out where I want my idea to go.

Friday

More of the same on Friday, I started to prototype a potential app idea looking at what may be needed within the project to get people outdoors. what is stopping them ? How can we overcome this ? those types of questions. what are the goals ?
- to motivate
- inform
- engage
- facilitate

Week 7

Thursday

We started to look into how we can interact with different areas of wellbeing through our idea. How we can help users to connect, be active, give, keep learning and take notice.
I found this to be an interesting way to look at how the user interacts with your idea because it directly relates to how the idea my effect the users life, as a way of thinking I found it very useful.

Friday

I started to do some surveys and research about what my peers like to do in the outdoors, most of it seems to be weather dependent. Working out what I wanted ask for my surveys was difficult, asking the right questions to get more detailed and informative answers

Week 6

This week in class we came back and made the decision of which brief we intend to continue on with.

Thursday.

Initially I wanted to move away from my brief towards the urban anxiety brief, but I have decided to change back to my own brief as it is better suited to my interests and audience. I think I want my brief to have something to do with the outdoors but I am not entirely sure yet.

Friday

We started brainstorming possible directions our idea could go. So far I'm am unsure of where I will take my idea apart from some kind of outdoor solution

Week 5

Week Five !

We finally got it together and sorted our issues with nailing down the idea. We came to the conclusion that we needed to target the negative core of the issue rather than fluffing around the edge of it. We were trying to tread carefully around it but we came to realise that if we wanted to raise the issue properly we would need to show the serious side of it. This move towards highlight the real problems of stress made the image generation much easier. We did a gestural stress based visual approach which I think came together really well. Overall I'm happy with how it came together but feel like I almost pulled all my hair out nailing down the issue. It was hard designing for a designer without being distracted by the concept of audience for the problem.

Week 4 exchange

This weeks exchange was similar to the last, it was nice to see other peoples work but some of the other disiplines had not made it very far as they had twelve week project and were in the early testing phases. I only had text to show so just talked them through my idea. Everyone seemed to understand what we were looking to do so that was a positive. Clarke also was doing Vcd so it was helpful to see where he was going with the assignment.

Week 4

This week we needed to have a mock up ready for class. We really struggled trying to get some visuals to work in with our text which swung between different variations of the same idea. We are still having trouble sticking with the issue rather than veering towards the solution. I think we now have the idea down so we can really start getting into the design.

Week 3

We came together again to try and consolidate our idea and define what exactly we were talking about. We had quite a bit of trouble doing this as we all had slightly different takes on what the idea meant to us. We also had trouble looking past the solutions and trying to focus on the issue. But I think we should be able to narrow it down and move forward.

Week 2 Exchange

For our first exchange we got together and started sharing our ideas from the different areas. We were missing a few members from our exchange but it was interesting to hear what everyone else is doing. There wasn't a lot of feedback given as the projects are still in the early stages.

Week 2 class

This week we began looking into an area of interest within wellbeing. I was interested in activating people to better their wellbeing by doing something they enjoy. We attempted to narrow our idea to fit around the eight given points, which proved to be quite difficult often repeating yourself. We eventually came up with these points ready to take to exchange.

Week One independent study

Research

Week One Class

This week in class we had two well being workshops, looking into aspects of our own well being and reflecting on how we manage this. I found this an interesting experience as I feel it is something I don't put as much thought into as I should.
In the second session we began looking at different audiences that may have trouble with their wellbeing, also looking into different phases where people may have trouble. For example first time flatters or the transition from intermediate to high school. From here we will move into researching an area that interests us.