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Week 13: Tutorial / Group Discussion

arteaseg — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 18:31:23 +0000

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.

Week 9: Thoughts / Group Discussion / Tutorial

arteaseg — Thu, 08 May 2008 15:23:18 +0000

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). =)

Week 5 : Tutorial/Group Discussion

arteaseg — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 08:16:28 +0000

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. =)

Week 3 : Tutorial/Group Discussion

arteaseg — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 08:04:17 +0000

This week Jon, Pim and I went for tutorial on time! However, Phong was no where to be seen. I guess he started the Easter Holidays earlier than all of us. Haha.. I was just kidding..He’s probably sick and staying at home to rest.

While I was in the midst of Tania’s tutorial about the wiki and stuff, it suddenly dawn upon me that the wiki is a great deal of help to aid a group discussion! Wow!! I finally discovered the power of wiki!! =)

It’s a good creation to update and share information with everyone, especially my group members. It would potentially widen one’s circle of friends and enable us to gain a sense of community with our fellow CommDesign classmates. I am so looking forward when our commdesign wiki is on full force and ever updating!

Anyways, JaPPeG welcomes a new member..She’s an indon, and her name is called Christine! *claps* We all warmly welcome her to our group, and we ought to change our group name this time round. We’re thinking of the longest word, and I came up with “Supercalifraglisticspialidocious”..Isn’t it fantastic?! It has some of Mary Poppin’s magical experiences and some magic dust*. =)

We had a group discussion on:

1. Things that shoppers are unhappy bout in the supermarket

2. Things that shoppers are happy bout in the supermarket

3. Ideas/innovation on a potentially better supermarket shopping experience

Jon, Pim and I had an extensive amount of research that we contributed in today’s discussion, which we picked out and discuss about. It was a good time not wasted, but rather made us thought about things that require our attention.

We divided more in depth research work between each members, so that we could continue to be in progress and ever keeping in touch with this project. We decided that msn is a good form of communication between one another, as there is a conference thingy where everyone could come together and talk. The age of technology!! How advance and making everyone’s life so bea-u-tiful!! haha

Well, on the whole I am pleased with the way things are progressing for my group, and how our individual works when discussed and shared could be so meaningful and important for this project.

Happy Easter Holidays!!

Week 2 : Tutorial/Group Discussion

arteaseg — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 11:58:31 +0000

The second lesson of Studio I:

We had an interesting session today. Coming together as a group for te second time, we took some photos and had some fun taking them, but we were extremely ‘chop-chops’ (fast) in getting that done. We came up with a kiss-ass group name, where it incorporates each of our first name’s alphabet. And this is what we agreed upon : JaPPeG (J: Jonathan, P: Pim, P: Phong, G: Geraldine (aka me)). It somewhat means JaP for Jon and Pim being a couple! No, I was just kidding. It means JaP : Japan, and PeG: for clothes pegs. Thus, the design of our group photo and mission statement.

Introducing the group members of JaPPeG (drum rolls):

Having been given 1 week to think, do some research and studies of an interactive design project, my group have already came to an very decisive and collaborative decision that our project would be based upon the experience of a supermarket shopper. We want to create an ultimate shopping experience of the regular shoppers in a supermarket. We aim to create a comfortable, enjoyable, convenient, and a stress-free experience for the shopper.

What made us thought about this was the problems that occurred to us when we are shopping in a big supermarket (eg. Safeway). There are times when we go like “Oh no! I’m running out of time and I need to find that particular brand of balsamic vinegar!! I can’t seem to find it!” You panicked. And decided to ask the sales assistant, but to no avail. Now, isn’t this scenario sounds familiar? This not only creates frustrations but also a stressful experience shopping. Fear no more! As with all the problems of shopping in a massive supermarket, my team wanted to look in depth into these issues arising to an unpleasant experience, and hopefully create an innovative and interactive solution.

For this week, each of us have to find out more about the problems of a supermarket to a shopper. We have to source this research out by either interviewing people, finding out from websites, books, etc. I anticipate this would be a fun experience as the comments and replies that we get from interviewing people would be rather hilarious.

Off to do the readings!!