Blog 07 ｜ FinRep
D-Describe objectively what happened
‘What did I do, read, see, hear?’：
In the first semester, I made a total of 5 Briefs and 7 Blogs. I recorded the process of these contents through videos, texts and pictures, and published them on my own WordPress.
Luna’s Wordpress
In Brief and Blog, you can see the content records of group projects and personal projects that I have recorded. They have similarities and differences, but they all start from the user’s point of view, using the designer’s thinking and different forms of expression to show the personal understanding and thinking of the project.
User map explanation
I started to contact this course formally, and made actual feedback from Brief1-Mapping_me. This is my first contact with this course. In this brief, I show my hometown map and personal map through collage or graffiti.
Personal map
I heard that our tutor showed a lot of personal maps made by past students in various forms.
Self-Map reference
At the same time, Danny also told us that we don’t have to think about what we are doing right or wrong, because there is no right or wrong, so we just need to make the map we make to express where we come from and introduce ourselves, so I finally based on the surroundings The personal map based on experience and environment is a fresh first attempt.
Print sizing
After that, the teacher showed us the appropriate display size to display and print our homework, and we gradually became familiar with the school’s printing system.
When looking at everyone’s feedback, I saw more fresh perspectives and ways of showing myself. Some classmates used a Pac-Man game to show the life they experienced before entering the University of Southampton, turning everything in their life into beans, and I am the Pac-Man. I find it very interesting. Similarly, some students convert daily routines into visual clocks to divide different times of the day. They do not have too many words and straightforward pictures to display, but through another kind of visual experience, whether it is a game or a strong sense of impact, to convey a personal map of themselves.
At the same time, reading the literature gave me more content for reference and understanding.
I remember that when I was still in China, we professionally received a brief summer assignment, which included the task of reading literature.
The literature is about “deining and integrating the systems”.
First literature reading
There are many cases of combining classic architecture and visual design to give an overview of our profession. At the same time, it also talks about how to plan your own projects reasonably and make presentations. Tell it. After reading the literature, I split and combined the content of the literature, sorted out the main frame structure, and combined my own ideas to make the ppt needed for the presentation.
Frame summary of references
In more projects in the future, I will also use more literature to help understand the project I am going to do. For example, in BRIEF 03-DA NM DRAWING IDEAS, I read the e-book “Drawing Ideas” to gain a better understanding of the specific parts of the project to be drawn.
Sketch after references
AI painted hamburger
In the first semester, we also learned some software applications. The content of this part was taught by Chris. First of all, it is Ai in the Adobe series. Through the course, I can understand the use of basic tools. I still remember that in the course of learning ai, I drew a basic hamburger pattern with Chris. Chris said that those two slices of cheese are like teeth, which is really funny!
Andy page layout display
Similarly, the quotation of WordPress is also interspersed from this kind of software-guided courses. I have never used WordPress before, and I don’t know how to deal with the web plug-ins and themes in it. Later, I will demonstrate through Andy’s offline courses. I gradually learned how to lay out the webpage, and combined with Chris’ basic description of html and acc, I made my own website page.
I —Interpret the events
‘What did I do, read, see, hear?’：
In the first semester, I made a total of 5 Briefs and 7 Blogs. I recorded the process of these contents through videos, texts and pictures, and published them on my own WordPress.
Persona Journey Map
By assuming that we become a user, we experience a series of changes in experience and emotions. In the process, we can use sticky notes to write down a few general problems.
Sticky notes
The research and discussion of these contents helps me to design from the user’s point of view. Therefore, after learning this basic framework, in future projects, I will bring myself into the audience of apps or interactive devices to think about the pain points that the project focuses on and upgrade solutions.
Museum Project-Persona
Weather APP-Persona
This may mean that I can start from the user’s point of view, rather than a ‘designer’ who blindly pursues a good-looking interface or a sophisticated layout. This point is very important to me, because my undergraduate graphic design is very different from the interaction I have learned now. To a certain extent, the interaction design I now learn should include graphic design, but The design coverage is more extensive.
Design Duality
Museum Project
My brand-new insights and theories are reflected in the starting point of the project. This starting point may be my request for optimization of the online museum in Brief to attract more visitors, or it may be a problem in the current society.
‘Get Real ’Project
For example, because of parents’ addiction. Mobile phone and missed the growth of the child.
Weather APP Project
Or it is to upgrade and optimize the current human-computer interaction to provide more targeted services, for example: provide weather apps for skiers or mountain climbers.
In summary, I have strengthened the cultivation of social consensus and empathy in different projects in the first semester, which makes me feel very meaningful.
E – Evaluate what you learned
‘ How was this useful?’：
In the first semester of study, I learned a lot.
First, it is the spirit of teamwork. Because our second Brief is a group project, we need to divide the work to conduct research, and at the same time, we need to assign different team members to be responsible for the connection of each part.
Group cooperation – 01
In the process, I learned to communicate, and at the same time I collided with other team members and came up with many interesting and novel ideas. The previous undergraduate majors of our group members are not the same. From our research and the process of proposing ideas, we can see these wonderful differences. We all have our own specialties. When combined, we can learn from each other. The project is more complete.
Group cooperation – 02
Then, self-learning ability I think is also a very important skill I learned. After entering the formal courses in Southampton, I learned that a lot of software learning and investigation are based on my own initiative to explore. The tutor will give us a channel to learn software, but it will not teach it completely by hand. More often, the ability of self-learning is extremely important. For me, this has undoubtedly expanded my cognition, and at the same time I understand my own shortcomings and learn, which also jumped out of my own comfort zone.
Adobe XD software tutorial
Then, there is a reasonable and step-by-step project promotion process. In this part, I am mainly logically self-consistent. It is very important to find the cause of the user’s problem, and then to explore the result. In the first semester of the project, we can often hear the teacher tell us why we should do this? Is this necessary? And what are the benefits of doing so? And other issues. At the same time, it is also important to express each part clearly, because even non-professionals can understand and use it through simple graphics or models. This is mentioned in Affordance.
After that, I think it is necessary to actively seek feedback, because only when users experience the output you designed and ask questions and opinions, can they fully understand whether their application or output can be more effective. Target market. Design is very important, but it is also essential to be able to reach the market.
Design Process
P – Plan how this learning will be applied
‘How might this learning apply in my future?’ ：
My future career may also choose design-related positions. However, many design companies now require designers to have design capabilities in multiple directions. For example, when I was in the previous undergraduate school, my professional teacher told me that when designing web interface for graphic design positions, it is best to be able to The front-end development of webpage programming can better present the desired design effect. Therefore, when I studied interaction design at the graduate level that was different from the undergraduate level, I learned more possibilities created by cross-professional integration.
And the self-study ability learned in the first semester may allow me to express my design ideas in more diverse forms of art. Because I think that learning a new software and new function in the process of designing a project will deepen my proficiency and application ability.
At the same time, after learning empathy in interaction design, it is easier for me to focus on social issues or minor inconveniences in my life. When I encounter these problems, I always ask myself in my heart what would I do if I were to optimize and improve? I think this is very good for the cultivation of my design thinking.
Then, critical thinking is also a learning skill I learned in the first semester. To look at a design work dialectically, not only from the appearance, but also to combine the social background, cultural background and environment it creates. When you see the good side of the work of art, you can also see the side that it needs to be improved. . When I do projects later, this dialectical thinking may allow me to self-censor.
First Group
