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.

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=)

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.

=)

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). =)

Hello, hello!!

Just last week my group had to do some examples of personas..and since it’s my first time doing and writing a persona from scratch, so pls pardon me. okay, here are my personas..:

1. INFORMATION USAGE:
Name: Sally Wakefield
Sex: Female
Birthday: 26 April 86
Age: 22
Occupation: Student
Hometown: Canada
Religion: Free Thinker
Marital Status: Single
Children: -
Income/month: $3000 (including rent and stuff)
Education: major in journalism in UNSW
Hobbies: singing and baking.
Favourite music: pop music
Fashion Inspiration: current fashion trends
Staying: In a residence hall on campus, with a roommate
Work at: part time as at Lush
position: Sales promoter

Place where she buys her groceries: safeway
Weekly spending on groceries: $100
Cook herself or eat out: cook at home most of the time
What does she normally buys: fresh food(meat,vegs), cereal, fruits, organic food. home necessity
What she thinks of the current supermarket system: she thinks it’s alrights as she goes to buy her groceries every monday at about 10pm. she tries to avoid busy time and sometimes late night food are cheaper such as the bbq chicken which safeway roasts.

2. INFORMATION USAGE:
Name: Darrell Chia
Sex: Male
Birthday: 6 October 1982
Age: 26
Occupation: Student
Hometown: Indonesia
Religion: Christian
Marital Status: Single
Children: -
Income/month: $5000 (including rent and stuff)
Education: double major in finance and marketing
Hobbies: basketball, tennis and watching soccer
Favourite music: R&B
Fashion Inspiration: street fashion
Staying: 2 bedroom apartment in the city with a housemate
Work at: part time at Pizza Hut
position: Sales promoter

Place where she buys her groceries: Coles,Safeway
Weekly spending on groceries: $30
Cook herself or eat out: Eat out all the time
What does she normally buys: junk food and home necessity
What he thinks of the current supermarket system: He thinks that it’s a place where he buys some toilet paper and household stuff, and some indo mee to keep him alive during the wee hours of the day. He goes to buy his necessity anytime , there’s no fix time.

3. INFORMATION USAGE:
Name: Alex Seeto
Sex: Male
Birthday: 11 July 87
Age: 21
Occupation: Student
Hometown: Singapore
Religion: Free Thinker
Marital Status: Attached
Children: -
Income/month: $4000 (including rent and stuff)
Education: Film student in rmit
Hobbies: filming, going for gigs, hanging out
Favourite music: indie
Fashion Inspiration: indie style
Staying: In a one bedroom apartment in chapel
Work at: -
position: -

Place where he buys her groceries: richmond
Weekly spending on groceries: $40
Cook herself or eat out: cook at home most of the time
What does she normally buys: fresh food(meat,vegs), fruits, What she thinks of the current supermarket system: sHe rarely goes to the supermarket as the groceries there are a little more expensive than the small shops opened at richmond. Sometimes he feels that safeway’s seafood isnt fresh, and the sales assistants are kinda rude and useless as they dont help you very much. a little hostile.

I am absolutely excited to see the outcome of my group’s video!! We went to film it today, trying to get everything done asap. As we wanna make it perfect, give ourselves time to edit it.=) Now I understand why some kids are addicted to the game to Mario Kart! I went to Crown to play at the arcade..And I played Mario Kart to get a better understanding of what this game is all about. Yeah.

Anyways, everyone’s busy editing photos, drawing the graphics, making the short video presentation work!

Alrights, Im off to do the reminding graphics for the presentation and do my week 7 readings!

Thought:
Well, it’s been almost the end of week5 and my group have kicked off the brainstorming part for our video. We’re gonna have a blast doing it as well as editing it. But everyone knows that it’s gonna be a tedious process trying to do it perfectly. =) Anyways, I tried calling coles and the people there arent exactly as friendly as I thought they would be! I even called the headquaters but they rejected the idea of filming/taking photos in the supermarket. I later made a trip personally down to IGA(my favourite supermarket), I remember shopping at IGA for everything last yr! owells, those were the good old days. Ok, I shall stop side tracking..haha!! Well, IGA allowed me to take photos, however they do not have trolleys!! why why? cos it was IGA EXPRESS!! owells, I guess we need a group meeting to sort this out so that we can complete the vid fast. ONE WEEK LEFT people!! hurryhurryhurry!

Group Discussion:
Over the week, we’ve been msging and msning each other by means of advanced technology, and yes everyone did their part in our group..Writing personas, drawing the scenes, sketching stuff, calling supermarkets, doing the group photo, editing the mission statement, editing the wiki page, etc. GJ! See you guys tmr..

Readings:
Alrights, so here are my week 5 readings..There seems to be a few readings which I’ve read it before in week3 and week 4. And I’ve already posted my reviews on it.(go check under readings)

Lidwell_UniversalPrinciples:

I like the fact that this article speaks about the accessibility of objects/products around us. I agree that everything around us needs to speak with meaning and purpose, so that the users/audiences can perceive, use and understand the whole design.

Also, I believe that aesthetic designs are more user friendly than those products with less aesthetic purposes. This is probably due to the fact that a more interactive design would allow the users to enjoy the product more and also have the inclination to use it with the thought that it is a fun and interesting product to use.

Overall, this article is informative in the sense that it tells me the guidelines and factors that contributes to a designed product, or anything dealing with designing.

SafferPersonasScenarios_fixed:
This article helped me in writing up my group’s personas and scenarios, because initially I did not know how to create a persona, thus with the help of this reading it allowed me to understand the requirements needed in a persona. Indeed this is really helpful.

Scenarios:
This short piece of reading helped me to comprehend what a Scenario is all about. In short, I understand that in order to write a scenario, one must identify the problem and interaction needed to take place. Also, avoiding references to technology, while including all aspects of the interaction. After writing it, one must review and edit the written scenario. We must also bear in mind to not indclude any form of technology related things, while writing the scenario.

Alrights, that’s all folks!

Alrights, today’s group discussion was a fruitful one! we got to kick start and finalise our ideas for the video presentation. Also we’ve redid our group photo and stuff. But I am trying to piece the group mission statement still..Im sure everyone in my team is trying to form the perfect sentence of it too. We just got the gist of it..but we need to find powerful words that stir within us to motivate us and push us to a limit where we never stop developing this project!

We’ve also decided on which ideas we wanna focus and develop on. Not to forget, we’ve shift our focus from the ultimate shopping experience..to a FUN & wacky experience while one does her supermarketing. We’ve decided to reinnovate the whole supermarket system to one where people not only go there to buy their groceries, but also interact with the supermarket environment and other shoppers too!

Anyways, I’m excited to do the video thingy!! We’re trying a new approach whereby we are not gonna film the video presentation, but rather take multiple photos and compile them up in iMovie to create a different perspective of our video presentation. Our inspiration was the Super Mario race game, indie movies style and of course with loads of humor in our presentation.

Yupps, right now everyone’s trying to come up with 2 or more personas for next week. We’re gonna come together this friday to discuss and share our generalized personas for our project. It’s gonna be interesting as we could see one another’s typical mindset of a particular demographic group. I reckon it’s gonna be hilarious.

Anyways, I’m really glad that today’s group meeting have shifted the focus to something more narrowed down, more specific in nature, rather than just spilling and overwhelming with ideas.(not saying that having ideas are not good, but we’ve more than enough ideas) I sure am glad that we’re shifting to doing the video, allocating and dividing group work, and everyone’s putting their 2cents worth, contributing and all.

Alrights, I’m off to come up with different personas for our project. =)