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Tuesday, 15 February 2011
Sunday, 13 February 2011
END OF MODULE SELF EVALUATION - OUGD102
NAME : Stephanie Lawson
BLOG ADDRESS : sl-lawson1013.blogspot.com
What skills have you developed through this module and how effectively do you think you have applied them?
The initial research task meant we had to find a range of ways to collect data, to think outside the box in some cases to be able to record it. Trying to research more in depth than I possibly would have done, in previous briefs, I developed a variety of ways to collect and approach researching methods. I felt I was more confident in doing so too, primary research I always felt a bit awkward doing, and tried to avoid it. With this brief I embraced the personal information you could gain from just asking people a few questions, and found it most useful. This really helped with my final outcome's, most so in collection 100 as my product was personal to my target audience. Also learning how to categorise my research has been most useful within this brief. By doing so, I could give products order without having to sift through data collected, I was able to just find it due to organisation.
I also believe my hand crafting skills have come into their own, learning from many of my mistakes in the process. Thinking of ways in which your products could be crafted to take a potential form I found really interesting, and by researching you could find product to engage with your own original idea's.
My printing and set up knowledge was seriously poor before this module, but, as a result of mass printing credit waste, I learned the hard way. By communicating with computer staff, I was able to learn how to print a perfect double sided page, knowing how to adjust layout, in regard to rotating and having to flip designs so things line up perfectly. This skill I feel was so important in the result of my collection 100, it gave my final outcome a realistic and professional finish which I had not managed to create until a week before the deadline. It's nice to see your work, actually working.
What approaches to methods of research have you developed and how have they informed your design development process?
I feel I have really researched in depth, and not for it to just stop as we started designing, but to carry on researching through the process to gain a deeper understanding of audience, product and context. I feel I have been more experiemental within this module, to see what works and what doesn't I would just design, re-design and re-design again, by doing so gaining an understanding of colour palette, scale and layout. So, really, my own research, within my own designs.
What strengths can you identify in your work and how/will you capitalise on these?
I feel I managed my time greatly, more than I previously would have thought possible. Every week I would have a new idea, and within a couple of days I had produced several strong designs, so design development became a strong element within my works, as I'd done so much of it. Also the use of workshops within the module became a great resource in the creation of final outcomes. What I learned from the book workshop really came in handy when producing my book within collection 100. What I did learn from the moving image workshop, I believe will come in so useful for forth coming modules. Any further workshops I will definitely be sure to attend, take down several notes and possibly attend drop ins hoping to apply skills I've learnt to my designs.
What weaknesses can you identify in your work and how will you address these more fully?
I think not identifying the main problem (for example, the what if brief), was an issue, as a lot of time would be wasted, meaning time management became difficult. I sometimes made designs and my approaches far to complicated and I just needed to keep my idea's simple for them to be most effective. So not finding the final design solution immediately was frustrating, but I learnt a lot from it, so I don't feel it was in any sense, a waste of time.
Identify five things that you will do differently next time and what do you expect to gain from doing these?
What I have learnt from this module, I want to take away and apply to others. Firstly my new time management skills, writing 'to do' lists kept me in line of what needed done and by when, it helps so much with deadlines. Secondly, asking for help. If I'd asked for help before frustratingly wasting my print credit, I could have avoided the loss. Another thing I would do differently would be to try and keep idea's simple, by doing so I could save myself time and possible self pity when told in a crit to do so. Fourth, I would try and identify the main problem to find a solution to by asking for more feedback and opinions before the end of week crit, it will save me time, and means I can start the design process. Fifth, I would plan my research methods a long time before doing them, Although I feel I researched well, it would mean a more structured way to do it, regarding time management.
How would you grade yourself on the following area's:
Attendance : 4
Punctuality : 4
Motivation : 5
Commitment : 4
Quantity of work produced : 4
Quality of work produced : 4
Contribution to the group : 5
BLOG ADDRESS : sl-lawson1013.blogspot.com
What skills have you developed through this module and how effectively do you think you have applied them?
The initial research task meant we had to find a range of ways to collect data, to think outside the box in some cases to be able to record it. Trying to research more in depth than I possibly would have done, in previous briefs, I developed a variety of ways to collect and approach researching methods. I felt I was more confident in doing so too, primary research I always felt a bit awkward doing, and tried to avoid it. With this brief I embraced the personal information you could gain from just asking people a few questions, and found it most useful. This really helped with my final outcome's, most so in collection 100 as my product was personal to my target audience. Also learning how to categorise my research has been most useful within this brief. By doing so, I could give products order without having to sift through data collected, I was able to just find it due to organisation.
I also believe my hand crafting skills have come into their own, learning from many of my mistakes in the process. Thinking of ways in which your products could be crafted to take a potential form I found really interesting, and by researching you could find product to engage with your own original idea's.
My printing and set up knowledge was seriously poor before this module, but, as a result of mass printing credit waste, I learned the hard way. By communicating with computer staff, I was able to learn how to print a perfect double sided page, knowing how to adjust layout, in regard to rotating and having to flip designs so things line up perfectly. This skill I feel was so important in the result of my collection 100, it gave my final outcome a realistic and professional finish which I had not managed to create until a week before the deadline. It's nice to see your work, actually working.
What approaches to methods of research have you developed and how have they informed your design development process?
I feel I have really researched in depth, and not for it to just stop as we started designing, but to carry on researching through the process to gain a deeper understanding of audience, product and context. I feel I have been more experiemental within this module, to see what works and what doesn't I would just design, re-design and re-design again, by doing so gaining an understanding of colour palette, scale and layout. So, really, my own research, within my own designs.
What strengths can you identify in your work and how/will you capitalise on these?
I feel I managed my time greatly, more than I previously would have thought possible. Every week I would have a new idea, and within a couple of days I had produced several strong designs, so design development became a strong element within my works, as I'd done so much of it. Also the use of workshops within the module became a great resource in the creation of final outcomes. What I learned from the book workshop really came in handy when producing my book within collection 100. What I did learn from the moving image workshop, I believe will come in so useful for forth coming modules. Any further workshops I will definitely be sure to attend, take down several notes and possibly attend drop ins hoping to apply skills I've learnt to my designs.
What weaknesses can you identify in your work and how will you address these more fully?
I think not identifying the main problem (for example, the what if brief), was an issue, as a lot of time would be wasted, meaning time management became difficult. I sometimes made designs and my approaches far to complicated and I just needed to keep my idea's simple for them to be most effective. So not finding the final design solution immediately was frustrating, but I learnt a lot from it, so I don't feel it was in any sense, a waste of time.
Identify five things that you will do differently next time and what do you expect to gain from doing these?
What I have learnt from this module, I want to take away and apply to others. Firstly my new time management skills, writing 'to do' lists kept me in line of what needed done and by when, it helps so much with deadlines. Secondly, asking for help. If I'd asked for help before frustratingly wasting my print credit, I could have avoided the loss. Another thing I would do differently would be to try and keep idea's simple, by doing so I could save myself time and possible self pity when told in a crit to do so. Fourth, I would try and identify the main problem to find a solution to by asking for more feedback and opinions before the end of week crit, it will save me time, and means I can start the design process. Fifth, I would plan my research methods a long time before doing them, Although I feel I researched well, it would mean a more structured way to do it, regarding time management.
How would you grade yourself on the following area's:
Attendance : 4
Punctuality : 4
Motivation : 5
Commitment : 4
Quantity of work produced : 4
Quality of work produced : 4
Contribution to the group : 5
Monday, 7 February 2011
CRIT - COLLECTION 100
ISSUES RAISED:
"Poster is a bit busy, overloaded with info"
"Have you considered making the poster larger?"
ACTION TO BE TAKEN
"Work with different layout to direct the reader - a more comfortable read."
"Making the poster slightly larger may help for the sake of readability"
Unfortunately most of the comments made were about a previous piece I had put out to show development, but this wasn't clear. There was a comment about page layout which I felt was helpful. I do believe it's not a 'comfortable read' as such. Some pleasantries and visual aesthetics I feel will help this.
"Poster is a bit busy, overloaded with info"
"Have you considered making the poster larger?"
ACTION TO BE TAKEN
"Work with different layout to direct the reader - a more comfortable read."
"Making the poster slightly larger may help for the sake of readability"
Unfortunately most of the comments made were about a previous piece I had put out to show development, but this wasn't clear. There was a comment about page layout which I felt was helpful. I do believe it's not a 'comfortable read' as such. Some pleasantries and visual aesthetics I feel will help this.
Friday, 4 February 2011
CRIT COLLECTION 100
ISSUES RAISED
- Colour palette choice, needs re-thinking
- Complicated visually, needs to be simple and elegant
- Smaller version? To be portable, to be able to take to food stores
- Readable useful format
ACTION TO BE TAKEN
- Look at colour choice, thinking greens, brown, and a sepia tonal quality
- Simplify designs, look back at some original idea's, making a book holding all the information
- Don't overcomplicate new designs
- Colour palette choice, needs re-thinking
- Complicated visually, needs to be simple and elegant
- Smaller version? To be portable, to be able to take to food stores
- Readable useful format
ACTION TO BE TAKEN
- Look at colour choice, thinking greens, brown, and a sepia tonal quality
- Simplify designs, look back at some original idea's, making a book holding all the information
- Don't overcomplicate new designs
Friday, 7 January 2011
Monday, 13 December 2010
What if..self evaluation
What if self evaluation
What problem did you identify?
How to make prospective students aware of the increasing tuition fee's and it's affects.
What evidence did you use to support your decisions?
There had been up raw and publicity about the decisions of the government to increase tuition fees. Anything publicised just stated the fact, but never actually aimed articles directly at prospective students, and no one had seemed to have thought about the negative affects of the increased tuition fee's. The fact that students will have a much larger debt to pay off. A website was found to calculate the estimated time to pay it off, using income and debt size to do so. We researched ways to make the public aware of the effects to society, jobs, universities and the economy. Within the protest we gained primary opinions off fellow protesters about the increase of fee's and how they felt about it.
What methods did you use to gather your evidence and what forms did it take?
(categorise your research using terms, primary, secondary, quantitative and qualitative)
Primary - Word of the mouth, hearing when the next student protest would be, gathering leaflets in relation to. Asking people within the protest how they felt about the increase in tuition fee's.
Secondary - Extracting information in newspaper articles, viewing video's online about student protests. Seeing the after affects and publication after a student protest.
Quantitative - We scoured the internet to gain opinions and views, looking at online blogs and forums. We looked at the price it cost David Cameron at Oxford to use within our protest banners.
Qualitative - Protesters expressed opinions by 'de-facing' our protest boards.
What methods of your research did you find useful and why?
I think our secondary quantitive research was useful, the fact about David Cameron and how much he paid for his education was a great fact, which would gain some very strong opinion as a comparative to the amount future students would have to pay. Also thinking about the effects the rise in tuition fee's would have, was good primary research. When really thinking about it, theres so many problems which will become of it.
How did these inform your response to your problem?
Using the fact about David Cameron gave students a personal link to a member of parliament. It really showed how much education costs have increased over a few decades. The information we found about the effects of rising tuition fee' s was used within leaflets, solving the issue we found of prospective students being un aware of the effects. This was directed at our target audience by giving out the leaflets within the protest.
What methods did you encounter as problematic?
Primary research seemed to be a problem, in order to gain opinions.
How did you overcome this?
Those who were really interested in the topic all gathered for a protest so, we came up with a constructive way for people to express opinion, and that was to 'de-face' our protest boards.
What research could you have carried that would have proved more useful?
To see if protesting had an effect on the final voting. But I feel it would have been very difficult and complicated to do so. It would mean interviewing those who would vote. But we could ask the public if the student protests have affected their opinion at all, and if so, does it affect who they would vote for within the next election.
List five things you have learnt about the design process over the last two weeks:
- The range and varied amount of primary research methods there are.
- To find an already existing problem, rather than attempting to create your own.
- Communication is key within group briefs.
- An organisation of figures found within research will prove useful.
- Powerpoint presentations need to be more visually engaging.
List five things you would do differently next time:
- Have a focused and obvious problem to work with indepthly.
- Make a initial plan of the research you are going to do, categorising them.
- Talk to and arrange group meeting/sessions in order to make the best solution.
- More primary research - actually get out there and talk to people more in deathly.
- Be more creative with presenting your work.
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