Just finished this project! So happy that its finally done, overall I really like the project and feel like I’ve learnt quite a bit from it. Mainly to do with group work and my design process or lack thereof. I’ve really found, over the last two projects, that I don’t really have a structure and I really like that! It lets me flow in and out of ideas without being too focused or sucked into any bits of it. I had quite a few talks with Claire about this and it was quite reassuring because she kept saying that that’s normal that things do and don’t work for different people and that’s something we need to learn over our whole careers! She also reiterated something that I heard in the first field module which was that uni is our time to fail, or learn in specific which is true and I had been kind of neglecting and really want to concentrate on learning new stuff. Overall, great project!

Just coming back to check in with this! Since the last post the only change is that I’ve realised group work can be such a pain, with team members not showing up which just ups the load on everyone else, other than that we’re still keeping up with it all and cracking on! What I’ve learnt from this is to do with work distribution and specifically what work you give to who, we had some issues with giving people some tasks that because they simply never showed up obviously didn’t do the work which screwed us. Just just a lesson, be careful who you give work to.

This is the second module working with other courses called field, in this project called “Just Do It!” we were tasked with designing a service or product to aid new, first year students. We went with a kiosk that helps students with general information and way finding which comes with a software side developed by our graphics student. So far the projects going well! I’m enjoying the focus on service design which is something we’ve never done before! The only thing I’ve learnt so far is that I, unconditionally hate sticky notes, jokes aside, its been useful continuing from Sustainable artisan which has really confirmed that I struggle having a structured design process. I work far better when I don’t have a structure to follow! However, this comes with a caveat that there are certain processes like journey maps that I used and really liked and will be using in the future.