Design Cycle Rajindh F.

Hella D.
Create

Process Journal

13th March

Today we were introduced to the project and we chose our groups which we
worked in. We got a pretty good idea of what the project was about and we
started to investigate on Web 2.0 a bit by going to the links provided on the
task sheet. We have a vague idea of what Web 2.0 is now, but its limited to
just knowing that it’s an enhancement of the existing internet. We also
started the Blog that we are going to submit our Design Cycle through, but
we decided to keep everything off the blog until the end, when we would
upload it. The process journal is meant to be kept on the blog (I presume) yet
we will keep it on a word document as we did with other projects.

18th March

We started the Investigate section of the Design Cycle today and we wrote
the challenge, the essential questions, and we started answering the first
guiding question, what is web 2.0? What we accomplished today is seen
here:
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Hella D.

Figure 4 – a screenshot of what we accomplished on the 18th of March

19th March

We decided to divide up the work that we were going to do in the way that
the guiding questions are divided up amongst up and so forth. Hence we
would do a roughly equal amount of work. So we each will do 3 guiding
questions for this lesson and the next, and then write how the essential
question relates to the AOIs and the design brief & spec together.

20th March

Today both of us finished the answers to the guiding questions, and hence
after reading each other’s work begun to work on the question ‘how does the
essential question link to the AOIs’. This we’re around half way done, so
during the next class we should be able to start the Design section. So far we
feel we’ve been on task more or less and what we’ve accomplished is a
testament to this although the first lesson we felt we didn’t really do much
in.
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Hella D.
25 March
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We finished the Investigate quite late in the lesson today we felt (in relation
to the work we had to accomplish), and we didn’t get much of a start in the
design phase hence. We just decided to have 3 designs – a Brochure, a
PowerPoint presentation and a Movie. This we could divide up so that one of
us does 2 designs and the other one does 1 design and critically analyses the
one we pick, hence equalizing the work load.

Figure 5 – a screenshot of the Investigate section which we completed on the 25th of March

26th March

Today again we felt we didn’t do much work as we didn’t finish the design
section (which we expected we could do as it is not much for 2 people). We
however do have some time left – a month and a bit so our procrastinating
shouldn’t be a problem. During next lesson we should aim to finish the
Design so as to get to the Create ASAP.
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Hella D.

27th March

As expected, we finished the Design today and we started the Plan section.
We decided to use the same plan format as I used in my last Design Cycle (a
vertical chevron list), because it worked relatively well for me. We haven’t
yet finished the plan, so we think that in the next lesson we should finish the
plan so as to start the Create for the following lesson.

Figure 6 – a screenshot of the Design part of the Design Cycle which we finished on the 27th of March

2nd April

We did finish the plan as expected today, so we can start the Create in
tomorrow’s lesson. We spent the whole lesson on the plan however as we
remembered to insert a Gantt chart so as to keep track of time better during
the whole design cycle. According to the plan for the Create section, we
should finish the product by the 27th of April, leaving us 2 lessons and 1 day
to finish the evaluates (test the product) and to upload everything to our
blog, which I realize is cutting it a bit close.
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Hella D.

3rd April

We started the Create today and as planned spent a whole lesson picking the
format and making the cover page to use for the brochure. This may seem
like a waste, but we feel like this ‘makes’ the brochure as presentation
matter a lot. Right now we’re pleased with how it looks as we found a
cartoon city picture which had web 2.0 applications everywhere on billboards
and so forth. We used this as the cover page and back page backgrounds,
and we think it brings colour into the brochure.

8th April

We decided to alter the two of the headings slightly from ‘pros and cons of
Web 2.0 cont’ to ‘how could web 2.0 be used in OSC’ and ‘how can and do
we use web 2.0’ to characteristics of web 2.0’. These we thought were more
suited for the challenge. We made concise and inserted around two thirds of
the information today into the brochure. Overall I thought today’s progress
was okay and we seem to be on plan more or less as in the plan we felt that
we could have just summarized info today to insert it tomorrow, whereas we
really summarised and inserted information today.

20th April

We finished putting in all the information today and we also started inserting
some pictures into the brochure (just the logos). Today’s progress is on track
of the plan, but there is still some work to be done in terms of design as right
now we just have the information on a white brochure with a title page and
cover page.
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Hella D.

Figure 7 – a screenshot of the brochure as it looked on the 20th of April

21st April

We found a picture with the globe and cut out paper people holding hands
around it, which we thought symbolized Web 2.0 in the way of
interconnectivity. Hence we used this picture as the background of the inside
of the brochure, and it looks quite good now, but it does lack a few pictures.
We are a little behind our plan however as we haven’t inserted pictures and
diagrams into the product which we said we’d do.

27th April

We added a few finishing touches today (a few more pictures) and printed
out the brochure. This took the whole lesson however as printing turned out
to be quite inaccurate – the sizes were wrong ect., but we fixed it in the end
and have now finished our product, on par with our plan. We’re pleased with
the final product, even though our design cycle may be a bit brief.
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Figure 8 – Our final product

28th April

Today’s the last day we get to work on this, so we gathered as much

feedback from our classmates as possible and then started to write our
separate evaluations. Neither of us finished our Evaluates however and we
will save them tomorrow on the public domain (and we sent the blog to Ichiro
as expected). We also made the brochure into two I-papers and embedded
them on the blog, so you can access the brochure online too.