Week 13 last entry - Kam Ho Mak (Blair pm)

Studio I , interaction design, the first impression for me about the course is about interfaces, technology. . . . . never notice about the research part,although I was in the beginning weeks.

So that is the whole system that works in all design project. The semester schedule helps a lot at this point, because it let me look a wide view about the process. Time management, deadlines.

Quite interesting this course bring me Journal and Participation assessment that I did not know about while I am not study in RMIT. Journal- here is the place that like a mirror of my works of my project. What you had been thinking can write here, today you thinking about something you think it is right , but maybe tomorrow you will think that is totally wrong. It can remind what you had missed out too.

Participation assessment is other thing new to me, mark yourself up is a hard thing, but you are the people know yourself the best and you are the one absolutely honest to yourself.

Come to the end of the project in studio I, my really bad bad thing of me again and again is management of information. I cannot stop asking my teammate with this and that because I always messed up with my note written, or I don't even write it down.

I never notice my bad habit unless I am a part of "super cow" , because my teammates are all well organized, they know all the thing we need to know. It's lovely to be in the team - Supercow. It is a team quite all way rounded, everyone have their strength, everyone know their jobs. And all of them are kind, we don't even argue about anything.

Learning on something is get you into the situation rather than memorize steps and rules. Once I have try on this project, although it is not perfectly finished, but the whole journey is already injected in my mind. The design process is going to apply to any other project immediately.

video available on you tube now~

Week 12

That will be the moderation, that is what I am nervous about during the week.
Speak to the public is something that I really fear of. I am not going to write down script because in this situation is not appropriate. Say what it is already happened without any modification.

At the same time the report is in shaped, the processes summary, reflections and things come together. We are going to standardize them, put in references.

Week 11

Referencing was mention again on the tutorial by Tania, that reminds me the report due day is coming close now. The week before, our group start to discuss about the report outline.

• What had we done for understand time management.
• Reasons of conduct a survey and how the survey help us
• How's Persona and scenario work.
• Outcome prototype.
• What will we do in the future with the product.

Although is the time we stop the progress of the interaction design, we still need to start to learn from the design process. Look back and see what we have done. In our discussion, we have got many points missed, by doing the report we can reveal the weaknesses of our resign process.

However we still wanna push the story a little further. We start to roughly think about the prototype. What model we can base on. Earlier I found the technology that we may use is the Nokia technology " Morph". It is a whole new concept to merge all our device together with a brand new substance. If that really happen in the real life, that is possibility change the world. Solar energy is the power it needs. bendable surface of full screen, touchscreen control, physical changes of 3D button can make benefit to people who cannot see. As that's plenty of advantage, 4 of us are all agree that is our base to develop on.

WEEK 10

Persona is failure last week due to lack of personality to support. In the persona I've done this time, I try to write a very short story of the persona I created. Try to think like her, try to have one day acting her and see what will she need and see. Wonderfully I can pick up one by one smoothly by thinking and observe others around me.

There comes the result of me to think about the scenario about the persona "Jen" . By the experience I knew from my friends and my parents. I try to propose that to my team to use a scenario of mine.

WEEK 9

now coming to the later part of our design process, week 9 . . . stop think about the deadline, I'm stressed. Video is done, that mean we start to do some practical thing on our interaction design.

How to think about our outcome, what should we get use from our survey result? From the big group of survey people, we now come to do a bit specific - Persona.

Persona I've read from the reading given is make a virtual people that having his/her own life, the most funny bit is we need to find some photo to make them humanity. Therefore I start to look for some my friends and my relatives having potential to be a model of the persona.

Nokia technology research

that is something interact with the world, with human . . . . this technology is cool.
And the presentation is good too.