Hey everybody who still reads my wordpress. Thanks for your time. Anyways, this is gonna be my last entry and I am just gonna say what I have learnt in this project and stuff.

Ever since the start of the project I was excited yet worried to work as a team. As I knew from the start that everyone is a designer here and we have got our own ideal perfect idea or perspectives on things, I thought working as a team could prove to be a little challenging.

However, to my amazement, I learnt that in order for a team to work and succeed in their project, we have to learn how to co-operate, be happy to do our part, and learn to give and take, take every criticism with a pinch of salt. I felt that I also learnt to appreciate the art of interact design and I was enlightened by the fact that designing a product or dealing with real life situations would be a tedious and long process due to the developmental work and research process.

I was also given the opportunity to understand the whole deal of in depth research study to work on sufficient ground. It was absolutely entertaining and at the same time wonderful to work with such great team mates, especially Jon, Pim and Phong who are ever ready to give a helping hand.

It was good to see work distributed fairly, in the sense that every had their own speciality and talent added into this project. I learnt to appreciate my group members, as we each have our own forte on design and we contributed at our best to this project.

Overall, I definitely learnt that in today’s society, interactive design which actually works could prove to be very effective and definitely an added convenience to our lives.

Yupps, so that’s all that’s left of this wordpress.

Have a good day.

Cheers!

Geraldine Lim

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Design Studio I

This week was the last week thus the group had the whole report edited and spell checked. =) We allocate the last week to present the report in a nice creative yet serious way, of course with a hint of playfulness.

It is finally gonna be all done and I am very excited about this!

There is the final report layout.

Enjoy.

Well, it’s gonna be one of my few last posts..and im kinda sad..cos i wont be updating my wordpress anymore on this project.

Anyways, we had class this week and we had this discussion and like sharing of our personal evaluation. I felt I did alrights, owells..

Anyways, I’ve did quite well for the past week on our group report, everyone did well. Now, this week it’s allocated to Jon to do the referencing..editing of the report..and for me to double check it..ive to update our last wiki entry..im thinking of what to type for the last entry though..

Owells, I’ve just reade what jon edited..it’s very well done..and im happy..with it..so im going to give the green light..and we cna send it to chrissy to finally put her share into the group report.. to do the layout only..yupps.

yupups, i’ll update more when it’s all finalyl done..

=)

This week jon, pim, phong and i came together for a major group discussion on our final report to wrap up this long project. We listed down things that are to be included in the written report, and discussed about it.

These are our report outline:

Introduction[G]

1. Original Project Intention[G]

-brainstorm of various ideas

-further breakdown of many ideas

-choice of supermarket idea

-initial direction:shelving

-specific direction: fun supermarket

2.Process

-various ideas of a fun supermarket & research[PHONG]

-video[PHONG]

-personas[JON]

-golf kart idea[PHONG]

-instructional manual/blue print map[CHRISTINE]

-what we’ve learnt[EVERYONE/JON]

-user-testing: problems & solutions[PIM]

3. Conclusion [JON]

- bibliography (referencing)

We later divided the workload between basically the 4 of us as christine wasnt present. So I am off to writing this report=)

Tweedledee, Tweedledum
by Stefan Sagmeister

This article was pretty interesting. It showed me how a diary can really be something that someone would treasure a lot as time passes. Keeping track of the things that have been done, good or bad. This is my take on the article, apart from the normal reviews i give relating to design and such. alrights, and there’s gonna be class tmr..great..i can start trying to write the report.=)

So right after friday’s lecture, jon pim phong and i had a small group meeting. we basically just met up to ensure that everyone knew where we are heading right now in terms of the report and such. all of us agree to focus on the mario kart game thingy for our repport. thus, over the weekends i thought about the pros and cons of this mario kart game.

I know it’s weird for me to say this, but i actually cant wait to get all the stuff gathered for the report..and finally write the report. i hope we’re able to finish it on time. alrights, im gonna do some readings.

=)

Here is my weekly reading reviews:

Don’t Make Me Think!
A Common Sense Approach To Web Usability.
by STEVE KRUG

This article is about how we use the web and how we pick up information, really. I guess I totally agree on Chapter 2, where we as human beings do really scan things around us, especially when we surf the net and are in a hurry to finding our intended information. And once we found it I am sure some of us still scan through it, or for those who really need the information, we read them thoroughly. =)

It is an informative article on designing a webpage or website. However, at this point of time this reading is just an informative piece of article for me to read and absorb it (Who knows I might need it one day!). Unless, my group wants to do some website thingy that encompasses my whole group progress and stuff. Yes, it would be great and we are thinking of it.

Understanding Design
by KEES DORST

I find this reading very useful as it is relevant to every design project that I do. With the explanation of the first steps of designing, the complications, the ups and downs of designing, the nightmares and the reflections. I guess it helped me understand more about the design work and lectures that I have went to over this pass one and a half years.

alrights im off to continue nursing my flu..see ya guys on wed.

Hello to you guys who read my wordpress=)

Week 8 was the AGIDEAS week, and many of I am sure took the opportunity or an excuse to take a break. There was no readings to read that is why I did not post anything for quite some time. Anyways, I am back with a new  group updates and work to be done. This is gonna be the final lap into finishing this semester’s group project, and I wish I had more energy to sprint this last 4 weeks. However, I am not exactly in the pink of health, been nursing my flu this whole week and I am not getting any better=( It’s terrible having a flu and slight fever, it bad.

Anyhow, it’s Week 9!! and Blue Bananas had a group discussion regarding about our upcoming and final lap to finishing this project. One major part of this group discussion was brainstorming for our report. I reckon this report to be detailed with step by step process of our supermarket project. We just gotta sort things out for the report, setting aside the unimportant things and focusing on the important process development work. This is gonna be messy (I know!), but we gotta include the choices made along the way and writing the report properly, making it understandable and stuff.

Yupps, it’s all gonna be good cos I know most of my group members like jon, phong and pim do not stop half way, as we progress and update each other on stuff very often, updating our blogs/wordpress and of course our wiki regularly. =) GJ guys.

Alrights, I am gonna end here. Gonna nurse my flu and drink plenty of water, prolly think about how to write the report and stuff (this project has always been on my mind, cant wait for it to be done perfectly). =)

Our group video presentation went not bad at all, though there were certain things which we should have paid more attention to and also there was definitely more room for improvement.

We should have really included and made it clearer on our current progress right now, where we are, what we are heading to do right now and stuff. It was not clearly stated in our video presentation. But, everything is done and we cant turn back time. So I reckon this is a good learning experience for us to reflect and think about what we should have done next time when there’s a similar presentation like this. Alright guys, the next time we all should pay more attention to the brief and really make clear what we want others to see our project as. yupps

And yeah lets continue progressing on this project! =)

Have a good anzac day!

Hey everyone,

life’s been alrights, BUT BUSY!! and we finally done the video!! yay!! thanks to most of the group pple..=) I just wanna thank Jon for pushing me in the trolley and taking photos!! and editing the colors..  (jon ur arm must hv ached..i’ll massage u!!=)) And thanks Phong for drawing the mario stuff so we could use them for the vid/stock photos..yeah..oh and thanks for the Mario MUSIC!! it’s fantastic..Lastly..I must thank Pim for sitting by my side while I edited the photos by placing the graphics tt i drew for our vid presentation..and also for putting up every bit of my whines and nonsense!! ok and thanks Christine for doing the cover page for cd..LETS ALL EXCLAIM IN JOY THAT WE’RE FINALLY DONE WITH THE VID PRESENTATION!!

I’m really relieved that it’s all done and stuff..It was a good job done guys! blue bananas we rock! ok as u can see im overly ecstatic..

So here’s the vid link on youtube..