A Project Blog…?

After an interesting meeting with Ruth and (insert name here) yesterday about PPD, we were told that we should firstly have an online presence as interaction designers and secondly that we should have a blog to show our thoughts and design process about our current project.

A little late considering our formative assessment is tomorrow but hey, I thought I’d give it ago. So here is a project blog about the Alexanderplatz project.

Currently I am in Purple Cave writing this… surprise… but I am also doing very little to do with the project. The group agreed I would Photoshop some images of greenery on walls which I found by a guy called Patrick Blanc. Take an image of that, and transfer it to an image of The Galleria in Alexanderplatz… challenging. Then again, there really isn’t much I can do.

For our presentation of initial research (Future City) the group fractured and we did not present as a group. It was full of “I did this…” and “I did that…”, very unprofessional. What was also unprofessional is that Omari took so much time talking about his segment, that it left 2 people unable to talk about their area of research - including me! The cultural probe was drop kicked into the shit-heap but that wasn’t really surprising considering it wasn’t discussed and the only resaon we had anything is because I made it (with help from Yuki cutting out the circles).

We did then decide on a new approach but it wasn’t liked by the tutors saying “You’re designers yet you’re getting the people to design for you.” Bollocks to that. I was fed up of getting contradicting information from the tutors from each discipline.

Goto http://www.newalexanderplatz.co.uk to see the results of our probe.

I bought cameras that weren’t used, made flyers for the website THAT I MADE. At this point, I was confused as to what everyone else was doing - except Omari…who seems to love research and pinning things on a board.

Today:

• The model is being completed (so Ash and Will say yet we have seen no evidence of anything from them)
• We decided on a slide show presentation with handouts for detailed work (to be compiled tomorrow morning… the morning of the formative assessment) with a timer so that each person knew when they’re 2mins was up and had to shut up.
• Omari and Yuki are working on sketches and ‘context’ because to date we have ONE sketch which was a quick drawing done by Yuki and that is the concept we are working from.
• I am writing this blog… which seems to be me voicing my ‘concerns’ about the project

I need to do some Photoshop work now…