Monday 12th October
Session 11
Stress week! Hand in week! Today we had a presentation of where we were at in our class. We showed our poster, brochure, bottle label idea, and an unfinished web page. The feedback we got really helped us in making some tweaks and decisions around our open item. We then spent a large part of the studio time left tweaking our poster as this one was the closest to being finished and really led the rest our decision.
Tuesday 13th October
Session 12
Today's session was open until around 10:30am when we went round all the other classes to see other works which was really interesting seeing the very similar, and very different approaches.
Sam and Hannah's 'Koha' VCD Online Workbook
Tuesday, 13 October 2015
Tuesday, 6 October 2015
Week 5
Monday 5th October
Session 9
Interim presentation this morning. We had our burnt, drowned, and crumpled posters to show along with the website bones and our first go at our brochure.
Feedback was really mixed and a lot of people were concerned that we were not continuing on with our sauce idea and is discussed on the workbook.
Having spoken to Matt we decided the best approach for us was to mix the 2 different angles we'd approached.
Tuesday 6th October
Session 10
Tristan offered a little help session with invision this morning which I went to. When I returned from that Matt helped me work on the poster using inDesign instead of photoshop. Hannah and I spent the session also coming up with website ideas, refining the brochure, ideating our 3rd open item.
Session 9
Interim presentation this morning. We had our burnt, drowned, and crumpled posters to show along with the website bones and our first go at our brochure.
Feedback was really mixed and a lot of people were concerned that we were not continuing on with our sauce idea and is discussed on the workbook.
Having spoken to Matt we decided the best approach for us was to mix the 2 different angles we'd approached.
Tuesday 6th October
Session 10
Tristan offered a little help session with invision this morning which I went to. When I returned from that Matt helped me work on the poster using inDesign instead of photoshop. Hannah and I spent the session also coming up with website ideas, refining the brochure, ideating our 3rd open item.
Tuesday, 29 September 2015
Week 4
---during the week Hannah and I worked separately on logo design which we brought to discuss in Monday's class
Monday 28th September
Session 7
This morning started in the Pit with a discussion about modules for Semester One 2016.
When we arrived at studio Hannah and I looked at our individual logo work and decided on our strongest to use and move forward with.
With this in mind we then started to think about how we could use it in our touch points.
We started getting really inspired, coming up with some web ideas (see online workbook) and went to discuss our direction with Matt. He liked where we were going and was also encouraging some more ideas down the same track. What he did highlight was that we really needed a tagline to bring it all together.
So Hannah and I spent quite a while trying to think up taglines, as well as noting down all our exciting ideas as they came to mind.
During the session I also did some research for body text.
Homework:
tagline! Come up with ideas and we will confirm on Tuesday.
body copy info
Tuesday 29th September
Session 8
Today we were excited to start making yesterday's ideas become a reality. First things first was to decided on our tagline. We finalised on "Help ya neighbour, avoid a disaster". We thought using the "ya" would help to target it towards our young/student audience. And the rest is pretty self explanatory - suggesting the neighbour element of the event and the significance on emergency/disaster.
I spent a long time putting together the logo and tagline so that they were on a nice grid. From there we designed our base poster (to burn, drown, rip etc). We had also come up with the ideas of power outage and burglary as emergencies but the aesthetic of these was different to what we were intending with the natural disaster type emergencies so we put them aside for now.
We tested burning a poster today but found it difficult to find a sheltered spot and were both struggling to operate the lighter we'd borrowed! So we have organised to try and do our "destruction" tomorrow. With the posters as far as we could go with them for now we decided to move on to our other touchpoints. I began work on the webpage and Hannah on the brochure as the web idea had been initially a thought that I'd produced and our idea for the brochure came from an initial idea of Hannah's so it made sense to each take charge a little with these touchpoints but we agreed that we both want to have input on the creation of each item.
Homework:
individual work on web/brochure
finish/refine/make posters
Monday 28th September
Session 7
This morning started in the Pit with a discussion about modules for Semester One 2016.
When we arrived at studio Hannah and I looked at our individual logo work and decided on our strongest to use and move forward with.
With this in mind we then started to think about how we could use it in our touch points.
We started getting really inspired, coming up with some web ideas (see online workbook) and went to discuss our direction with Matt. He liked where we were going and was also encouraging some more ideas down the same track. What he did highlight was that we really needed a tagline to bring it all together.
So Hannah and I spent quite a while trying to think up taglines, as well as noting down all our exciting ideas as they came to mind.
During the session I also did some research for body text.
Homework:
tagline! Come up with ideas and we will confirm on Tuesday.
body copy info
Tuesday 29th September
Session 8
Today we were excited to start making yesterday's ideas become a reality. First things first was to decided on our tagline. We finalised on "Help ya neighbour, avoid a disaster". We thought using the "ya" would help to target it towards our young/student audience. And the rest is pretty self explanatory - suggesting the neighbour element of the event and the significance on emergency/disaster.
I spent a long time putting together the logo and tagline so that they were on a nice grid. From there we designed our base poster (to burn, drown, rip etc). We had also come up with the ideas of power outage and burglary as emergencies but the aesthetic of these was different to what we were intending with the natural disaster type emergencies so we put them aside for now.
We tested burning a poster today but found it difficult to find a sheltered spot and were both struggling to operate the lighter we'd borrowed! So we have organised to try and do our "destruction" tomorrow. With the posters as far as we could go with them for now we decided to move on to our other touchpoints. I began work on the webpage and Hannah on the brochure as the web idea had been initially a thought that I'd produced and our idea for the brochure came from an initial idea of Hannah's so it made sense to each take charge a little with these touchpoints but we agreed that we both want to have input on the creation of each item.
Homework:
individual work on web/brochure
finish/refine/make posters
Monday, 28 September 2015
Tuesday, 22 September 2015
Week 3
---Hannah and I met up on Wednesday to do our saucy photoshoot (see online workbook). Unfortunately we were both really busy with personal commitments this week and weren't able to arrange another meet up time so we separately created poster designs which we then discussed online on Sunday.
Monday 21st September
Session 5
Today's session started with interim presentation. Because of our weeks commitments we hadn't yet been able to print our poster designs so attempted to print them first thing this morning. Unfortunately there were a lot of hold ups with the printer and Matt and Klaus had to crack down and cut everyone off at 20 past 9. That sucked for us as ours actually printed really quickly when we finally got a turn! We still shared our work on the table and got feedback from the lecturers and our peers which proved to be helpful.
Before we looked at our feedback, we had a discussion as a class around the entirety of what we are doing for this project and how it fits into the timeline:
Terrible photo but pretty much what it details is the idea that the Web page is active from beginning/lead up to end/after the event, whereas posters are generally in the lead up but not past the actual event, the flyer/brochure will generally be happening at the event and after and then as a team it is up to us to decide what our other media is and where it fits.
We also discussed the importance of looking at the Who, What, Where, When, Why, How.
Then it was feedback time (see online workbook). We discussed our feedback and how we might want to approach our other media before going to the Pit for a lecture on Transmedia.
These are my notes/images of helpful slides:
Transmedia > Across media > multiplatform > replicating the same experience on different mediums > many labels: one concept.
ui = user interface
ux = user experience
Key: interaction design
follows a production workflow:
Mocking up a paper test and asking friends/family/peers/even strangers can be a great (cheap) way to get feedback on usability.
Specifications around our project.
Tuesday 22nd September
Session 6
Today started with a lecture in the Pit in which we were shown some example work from last year (that wasn't on either of the topics used this year) which gave us a bit of a holistic view of the project. We then went back to our studio to go through different touch points and try and refine our concept. Matt was away today which meant that Klaus was trying to get round to everyone who needed him so Hannah and I made a start by ourselves. We went through an in-depth thought process regarding the "knock knock" approach but when we talked to Klaus he advised that the "accidents happen" concept was far stronger, so now we need to re-think. To start this we filled in a table to get us considering all of the before-during-after aspects we would have:
We then had another wee lecture - this time introducing us to the invision programme. This program looks so awesome and simple so Hannah and I are looking forward to using it. We decided it would be best to go away from today's session and clear our heads and then come back and attempt the "accidents happen" concept fresh.
Homework:
Consolidate concept and approach and refine poster.
Think about extra touch point and what it could be/why it is important.
Logo design
Monday 21st September
Session 5
Today's session started with interim presentation. Because of our weeks commitments we hadn't yet been able to print our poster designs so attempted to print them first thing this morning. Unfortunately there were a lot of hold ups with the printer and Matt and Klaus had to crack down and cut everyone off at 20 past 9. That sucked for us as ours actually printed really quickly when we finally got a turn! We still shared our work on the table and got feedback from the lecturers and our peers which proved to be helpful.
Before we looked at our feedback, we had a discussion as a class around the entirety of what we are doing for this project and how it fits into the timeline:
Terrible photo but pretty much what it details is the idea that the Web page is active from beginning/lead up to end/after the event, whereas posters are generally in the lead up but not past the actual event, the flyer/brochure will generally be happening at the event and after and then as a team it is up to us to decide what our other media is and where it fits.
We also discussed the importance of looking at the Who, What, Where, When, Why, How.
Then it was feedback time (see online workbook). We discussed our feedback and how we might want to approach our other media before going to the Pit for a lecture on Transmedia.
These are my notes/images of helpful slides:
Transmedia > Across media > multiplatform > replicating the same experience on different mediums > many labels: one concept.
ui = user interface
ux = user experience
Key: interaction design
follows a production workflow:
For this assignment the 2 we will focus on will be #4 User interface design and #5 User interface prototype. We still ran through the other key steps though.
Sketching is an important initial step in getting your ideas from your mind into physical form.
Wireframing to plan out your web design helps with usability. (examples of this are part of our homework task)
Demonstrates how the wireframe was developed into a web design.
Clarity, Functionality, Content, Annotations, Specifications and Requirements creation are key when considering your wire-frame.
Specifications around our project.
(Prototyping > experience)
In terms of being interested in html you can access code whilst browsing websites you think are interesting:
Homework:
Wireframe exercise (example ones + one of your choice).
Look for:
Purpose
It's goal
Unique attributes
What are the aesthetic or behavioural aspects?
Does the look and feel complement?
--- Hannah and I like to split the workload and keep things fair as we both have lots of other commitments so we are each doing one of the examples and then one of our choice.
Tuesday 22nd September
Session 6
Today started with a lecture in the Pit in which we were shown some example work from last year (that wasn't on either of the topics used this year) which gave us a bit of a holistic view of the project. We then went back to our studio to go through different touch points and try and refine our concept. Matt was away today which meant that Klaus was trying to get round to everyone who needed him so Hannah and I made a start by ourselves. We went through an in-depth thought process regarding the "knock knock" approach but when we talked to Klaus he advised that the "accidents happen" concept was far stronger, so now we need to re-think. To start this we filled in a table to get us considering all of the before-during-after aspects we would have:
We then had another wee lecture - this time introducing us to the invision programme. This program looks so awesome and simple so Hannah and I are looking forward to using it. We decided it would be best to go away from today's session and clear our heads and then come back and attempt the "accidents happen" concept fresh.
Homework:
Consolidate concept and approach and refine poster.
Think about extra touch point and what it could be/why it is important.
Logo design
Monday, 21 September 2015
Tuesday, 15 September 2015
To Do List - Week 2
This week we're mostly making and photographing (as they are mostly made with tomato sauce!) our posters, so a lot of our work time this week will be used to do that.
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