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.