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Presentation Day

Today was our final presentation in the pit. We came early to practice our script and make sure we have perfect timing. We had our matching tshirts on and were ready to go. I think people reacted very well to our idea and we got heaps of smiles which is what we want. It was a we bit intimidating being in the pit but because I done my enterprise in there I was used to it and also our presentation was well practiced. I was super impressed with everyones presentations and it did not feel like 3 hours because of it. We got a nice honourable mention at the end from Tristam after which was fantastic. Im still buzzing from it now and I can't believe it's finished. I really enjoyed this project I felt like we were making a difference to actual people and it helped having an amazing group to work with

Dossier Development

Georgia came up with the idea to do a video dossier because most of our insights and documentation is in video already. It is also something different from a printed booklet to read and helps the viewer immerse in it a bit more. We got the ok from Donald and Tristam and got stuck into it. Because we have all our touchpoints done we could putting our dossier together. We filmed all the extra bit we needed between Tuesday and tonight and put it all together. Once the dossier and scrpit was completed we recorded our voice over for it. For me this took a long time to get right. For some reason because I knew I was being recorded I found it more difficult. But we got there in the end. We also recorded our voice over for our presentation to be submitted. We also chucked some bloopers in at the end of the dossier to show the markers how much fun we had with this project. Once it was rendered out we all sat around and watched it. The video dossier was such a good idea as I felt like I connected with our process way more and that video made me fall in love with our campaign so much more. Watching the dossier and practicing the presentation has gotton me excited for tomorrow and to share with everyone.

Shark Tank

Today in class we spent the first half an hour going over our script and timing with the presentation video. Then we presented to Sky and Sarah first. They thought it was amazing and said they were doubtful that hi-fiving would be enough then they saw all the touchpoints too. They loved the video but their are some silent pauses in the script so work abit on timing the video. The next group we got was Katie, Sam and Lauren who said the same thing. We then show Donald. He also like it but wondered if the promo video is looking more like a presentation video which was interesting. So if this was to go further we would make the video more fast and upbeat.
We then thought we were brave enough for the shark tank. They loved it and said that it really shows through on how well we mesh as a team. They loved my dancing which is great. Mark says that he was hesitant if the Hi-fiving was enough but seeing all the design aspects is very successful. Some good critique from Tristam was also the pauses waiting for the next scene. Maybe the use of keynote would be better and there is a scene where there is one angle of people walking and maybe it needs a few more to keep it interesting. I also loved that Tristam said that the presentation is very successful because the script is split so that no one is left out. I thought that was a nice thing to mention. They concluded by saying that we had the best presentation so far which was an amazing feeling.
We will go away and work on these little critiques for Friday

Developing Touchpoints

Over the last few days we have been developing our touchpoints for our overall campaign. These include a promo video, website, series of posters, merchandise, the event. We wanted to get all these done and put into a presentation and scripted to show tomorrow. We all worked to our strengths to refine these touchpoints. For the video we spent a long time cutting down the footage and picking the perfect amount of cheer for the music. I finished up photoshopping the logos and designs Hannah illustrated for the merch and hannah finished the poster and the fonts. Georgia worked on the website and presentation. Im really stoked on how well we all worked together to get this done. To show tomorrow.

Final filming on Lambton Quay

This was our final venture out to Lambton to film for our promo video. The tshirts were printed and ready to go. We had our go pro and camera but unfortunately Callum couldn't make it so he will go with Hannah in the next few days to test it with a male hi-fiver. It amazing what a printed Tshirt can do to your confidence. It made us feel like we had a job to do and it made a huge difference in peoples interactions with us. More people were hi-fiving us and also alot were asking us for directions which was a laugh as I live in Upper Hutt so I had no idea where I sent them. The previous prototype day gave us extra confidence and a chance to pefect our hi-fiving technique so come today there was no hesitation. the colour of the tshirt also helped in giving us a cheerful look and stand out fromthe penguins black and white attire.
Overall another successful day and it was great to see people walking away with a smile even if it was just for a moment.

Final Ex-Change Week 11

We had our final ex-change moment today. It was amazing seeing how far everyone has pushed their project as it's gets closer to the end. Because half the people in each exchange group didn't show up, we formed a super group. This was really good at getting last minute feedback from new people and see what other people are up to.

Callum brought in a mock up of his multi-use cooking utensil and model drawings. He aimed to reduce space and weight when cooking outdoors. This has completely changed from his video at the start.
Bree brought in rendered version of her boat shed inspired house. This house is designed to sit half on land and half over water. She has advanced quite a bit in the last two weeks and is getting close to finishing now.
I showed the group our printed posters for our campaign that promote well being. Also still from our final footage and tshirt designs. The new people in the exchange group asked why we chose the colour which was a first on 'why'. I told them that the watermelon colour is warm and calming without suggesting danger like red or road cone orange would. They were also entertained by the whole campaign and love the idea of business people hi-fiving. This is interesting that everyone we pitch our idea too are genuinely surprised that business people break their stereotype. They also like the hand drawn illustration and say it gives it a simple happy vibe.


Overall these exchanges have been surprisingly helpful in developing ideas and getting critique from outsiders/people from other disciplines.    

Class Critique/prototyping 2

Today we worked on our Journey map and developing our logo. It was also prototyping session two we had booked in with Tim as he hasn't seen our idea before. For our physical prototype we wanted to properly test our hand installation that would be put up around the streets for people to hi-five and relieve stress. I cut out two big foam hands and painted hi-five on them. we strung them up in the hallway and I took a telly of how many people hi-fived them. This was very funny to watch and I had to be stealthy so no one knew I was observing. The critique with Tim was interesting as he was very doubtful of Business people hi-fiving us and thought it would work. He assumed the target audience would not interact. We then showed him our prototype video and was completely turned around. This was a good insight that we need visuals to convince people that it does work. We will take this away and refine our campaign.

Prototyping on Lambton 2

In preperation for this day of prototyping Hi-Fives, we purchased $3 white t-shirts from Savemart and wrote hi-five on them with a black sharpie. We then made our way down to Lambton Quay to get ready. We got started by hi-fiving people walking down the street. There was not as much hesitation this time because of prototyping before hand. I was rather surprised at how many positive hi-fives we got from alot of people. The shirts did make a difference as it gave people more security on why we were hi-fiving them. The shirts also helped in making an insight for the day. We were just standing there discussing our day of hi-fiving and a large group coming from parliament walked past, saw our hi-five shirts and hi-fived us while we were just standing there not offering them. A similar thing also happened at the beginning of the day but I think that guy just fancied us and thought the hi-five was a good approach. From this we did another lot of prototyping, where we stood there and offered hi-fives and we recieved alot more this time. I think it was because people had more time to read our shirts, think about then decide for themselves if they wanted to be hi-fived. We thought standing there in make us look like a charity asking for money, but our assumptions were wrong. I enjoyed today and thought it was very successful and gave us some ground breaking insights.      

Week 9 Ex-Change

Today we had another exchange and it was exciting to see everyones ideas coming together. I showed my exchange group my team's idea of high five week as a campaign leading to an event a the end of the week. I also showed the group the range of tshirts I had photoshoped with our logo on it. They liked the watermelon colour and the logo. They also like the prototyped videos of us hi-fiving business people and commended us on our bravery and found it amusing that business people behaved in such a surprising manor of accepting our hi-five.

The following are some quick notes that I took down while I was telling them my team's ideas and development:

-Focus on their reactions
-Give people something to take with them
-Brighter colour palette

Bree talked about her Spatial project of designing an aquatic house inspired by boat houses. Built half on water and half on land. She is developing the layout of it and testing out a detachable room that floats on the water. Callum suggested that the room not be completely detachable as I said that it would be unnerving to sit in a room that could potentially float away. So we thought that she could pull the room out so that it has a mote of water surrounding it and leads through from the kitchen. I also suggested to her to use more curves in her design to give more of an aquatic feel and so that the users can follow the sun around the house and would connect the kitchen and living areas together.

Callum is doing a multipurpose camping utensil for his industrial project. He is redesigning the pot clamp thing and giving it more purpose in preperation of food while camping. Since the last exchange he has scrapped his original idea and moved to this. The purpose of his design is save space and give more purpose to existing product thats out there. His current design incorporates a fork and spoon and the pot clamp. I suggested that he can go bigger and also put a clip or possible attachment for a torch and the tong feel also leaves an opportunity for a flint in the clamping motion

Class Critique/interim

Today in class was interim critique. For this interim we had to bring in three prototypes for our hi-five idea. In prior to this class we had to book in with a tutor to test our prototype we chose Donald as we only had 10 minutes and we didn't want to have to spend it explaining our idea. We also had all streams to go around and prototype on. Our three prototypes were a video of us hi-fiving on Lambton, a teaser paper hands that let people know a hi-five was coming and and cardboard frame that we can frame people in to hi-five. We got alot of positive feedback from this session, and also some good insights from new people that saw our project for the first time. I also liked today as we got to experience other people's projects we havn't seen before and I love classes that make you get up off your seat and away from your laptop.   

Prototype on Lambton

Today we went out tested our hi-five idea on our target audience in the CBD. We had prepared ethics forms and printed and cut them ready if anyone would ask for them. We were wearing black to be semi matching but it was cold so we all had coat and jumpers on. We started with Georgia and Hannah walking down the street offering hi-fives on their way past. But neither of them could build up the courage to be the first to go. It was much more intimidating than we thought to approach people. I went with Georgia next and once I did the first one it soon became easier. I was rather surprised at how many positive hi-fives we got from alot of people. I think some people were hesitant because we just looked like students messing around. The cold weather also played a factor in people not wanted to take their hands out their pockets. After we hi-fived people as we walked past we also needed to test our traffic light idea which we started this with. This was very scary as we were immediately approaching people. Weirdly for me I found too invasive so I couldn't do it. Luckily Georgia built up her courage and took one for the team. It was very awkward but funny to watch. Some people found it brightened their day but most did not know what to do when Georgia approached them and panicked. So this prototype day has been helpful in ruling out hi-fives at the traffic lights.

Week 7 Class

Today was the first class back after mid semester break and we had all brought in our examples of design for well being. In our stream we split into groups to present our example and asked to chose the most interesting. We liked Lily and Alex's as it was an illustrator connecting to kids. When our streams got together to present the most interesting no one from our class offered so we got randomly picked to present. It was a bit put on the spot but luckily we had a little bit of a script to follow. I think people responded well to the twist cap idea but were reluctant as it was for coca-cola.

Mid Semester Break

Over the mid semester break we met up a few times to complete the tasks that were set to us for our break. We also used this meeting time to discuss our ideas and think about where we can take it. For task 1 we were asked to bring in 1 example of a man made experience that addresses a persons well-being. We looked at a few existing examples and I showed my team the coca-cola twist video that Callum from my exchange group showed me. We were all drawn to it, not because it was coca-cola, but because of the way it encouraged people to interact through clever design. I also liked that they really thought about their audience and had a well-being issue they were trying to solve.
With this coco-cola idea we made up a quick slide show and short script to show in class when we get back.

Week 5 Ex-Change

We met up for exchange number 2 today. We discussed how our presentations went and what we have developed over the last couple of weeks. It was interesting to see how everyone's projects have progressed from just getting to know the brief to now where most of us have finalised ideas and presented. 

Callum shared his presentation and project with us and he did a video to show cooking conditions in Africa. It was a very nice video, although I couldn't wrap my head around what his project was about.

I showed the ex-change group my teams dossier and video that we had created for presentation and explained to them our 'How might we?' statement. There was little room for feedback as we had just had our presentation but they did say that they liked it and we had a good use of penguins to help make the message clear. 

 

Presentation Day

Today we had our presentation with stream B and C. The video worked perfectly, we did need to have the volume right up to here the quiet city sound effects and people were applauding too loud during the credits to hear our penguin noises that we put at the end. I thought we all spoke very well and got our point across. I felt pretty comfortable speaking in front of everyone as we had the script in front of us and had practiced enough times that it felt easy and flowing. I really enjoyed the other presentations too as I'm always interested to see what the other teams are up to and possible briefs that I/we could continue on with.

Finding LT100 was a little mission of it's own. I would describe the lecture theatre as cute and cosy but it was hot and stuffy with bad upholstery and not a patch on our state-of-the-art design block. Fortunately the lollies put me in a better mood ;)

The dossier presentation was very informative and I particularly liked Emily Campbell/Sarah-Louis Crawford and Afred's Child one. These are top contenders with our brief and I would like to look at these further. I think lots of people liked our dossier aesthetically (because of the penguins and the cut out on the front page) but I think people also were attracted to our 'how might we' statement. I am very happy with how our brief and dossier turned out and comparing it to the others we are leaning towards carrying on with our own.
    

Last Day Before Hand In

Today we spent the whole day together getting everything touched up, finished, printed, bound and submitted and rehearsed ready for tomorrow. We had a few issues with printing but got there in the end and cropped the dossier and bound it with double sided tape. With the dossier complete we did some finial editing to the video and recorded our voices for the moderating version of our presentation. After finishing the presentation we practiced for a bit then filled in the partner evaluation sheets and zipped everything up and submitted it all.

It was a long day with a few barriers but I feel very proud of our dossier and presentation and am excited to share it with everyone tomorrow. After putting sounds in the video with the penguins it has just giving the presentation that extra push in communicating our well-being statement and how might we question.

Final Critique

Before todays class I was talking to some students in the other streams and asked them how their work is going and their presentations seem to be focused on more empathy. Reflecting it with ours I thought that it might be good to adjust the script slightly so that we use less 'big word' and channel more empathy and personality into our presentation to make it more fun and exciting to listen to. I talked to Georgia and Hannah about this and they agreed. Simplifying the script also helped with the timing of the video and gave us more time for each section to read. Before showing Donald and Tristam for a practice presentation we did some final touches to the dossier and ran some print tests. We had a few issues with printing at first but got there in the end. The physical dossier looks good and we went through with a felt and highlighted all the little mistakes and adjustments that it needs before final print. Im glad that we print tested to see all the little nitty gritties and that we have plenty of time to fix them.

We did a practice presentation with Donald and Tristam separately. They both really enjoyed the penguins and script. There was one sentence that they pointed out as being quite bulky so we will fix that. There was a couple of other small critiques like Titles and credits and a backing track of some sort. Tristam mentioned maybe city sounds which we all thought was a great idea. These are things we will fix over the weekend. Todays final critique has been super helpful in picking out all the small things to fix and making our presentation and dossier the highest quality possible.  

Late Night Touches

Tonight our team met up to add touches to our video script and dossier ready final critique tomorrow. The Script was ready to go so we recorded ourselves reading the script and shortened it to fit the 2 minute time frame. Once that was done we edited the video to fit the script and practiced a few times. With that all sorted we worked on the layout of the dossier. It was a very productive night to get everything done and ready to show Donald and Tristam tomorrow. The script sounds good and I'm really happy with our brief and the dossier and the video is very entertaining. I feel well on track and await critique tomorrow.

Presentation Video development

Today we discussed what we would put into the script for the presentation. We took the best and most important bits from our dossier text and put it into a script for our video. The script is sounding good but still needs a bit of work but with the script roughed out I feel on track.

Week 4 Session 1

Presentation Style - Dossier and presentation

From our meet up yesterday we have developed our text for the dossier and have mocked up a dossier. We chose to keep our dossier black and white to keep with the penguin theme and also show the greyscale city and lack of fun in business life. Georgia has been looking at penguin videos and I have been looking for penguin photos with my illustrations. We have started to piece our dossier together as a draft to show today and the critique was good people responded well to the penguins. However Donald questioned if we need both photography video and illustration for our dossier. After much consideration from all the critiques we decided to take the illustrations out and focus on the photography and film. I feel that its the right direction to go as photography of penguin will feel more real and 'grown up' therefore interactive with our target audience.   

Team Meet up

Today we met up at uni to discuss the critique and start developing our brief further. During the last class we had an idea to use penguins as a replacement to business people. This idea came from our people watching trip a couple of weeks ago where we mentioned that when they are all walking in clusters dressed in black and white they look like penguins. So we thought we would play of this idea as a visual for our brief and presentation ideation. So while Georgia and Hannah did some research on the effects of laughter in stress I draw some penguin illustrations to represent our three profiles. I feel like the illustrations and use of penguins helped us gain empathy for these three profile and brought humour into it which is what we are heading towards in our how might we questions.

Week 3 Session 2 - Peer Presentation

Today was a peer presentation. We peered up with another group at our table and presented a draft dossier that we had used the night before which included the Audience Profile, Situation/Context, Need, Insight, HMW Provocation. Donald also looked at our draft. I found this critique super helpful as we were a little confused last night on what we were showing today. Both Donald and the other group's critique were good because we had a lot of 'how might we' questions that we generated the night before and were not sure how to cut them down. Also we weren't sure if we could have three profiles rather than one and Donald and Tristam said that we could as long as they all link to one how might we question. Overall this critique has been very good in seeing where we are at in the project compared with our peers and what direction to take it in.

Team Meeting Questions

'How might we?' Questions

Today we met up as a team after our elective class and stayed at uni late to put together some 'how might we' questions for tomorrows peer presentation. We were given a sheet in class on Tuesday that we used to help break down these 'how might we' questions for our three profiles which we now know as Wiremu, Craig and Evelyn. We whipped up a dossier and I did some illustrated people for our profiles and using the 'how might we' we narrowed it down to these main points and created a range of questions from there:

Increase The Good, Remove The Bad, Explore The Opposite, Question An Assumption, Go After The Adjective, Look For Unexpected Resources, Look For Similar Environments + Create An Analogy. 

I feel like with this 'how might we' idea we are starting to hone in all the information that we have gathered over the last couple of weeks and start to flesh out the key factors for our brief draft. We are ready for peer presentation tomorrow and to receive some critique.

Week 3 Session 1

Point-of-view Statements

In class today we got given point-of-view statement sheets. We were asked to give them a go individually first using our target audience and then reflecting back with the team. I struggled with this for a moment but once I got the hang of it, it proved to be very helpful. This exercise was useful in narrowing down our target audience and help develop our brief while also gathering empathy for the different profiles used. From journey mapping we only really talked about the different encounters and feelings that each journey went through but this point of view sheet has helped put it into more of a structure that can be developed into a brief. From todays exercise our team now has a definite target audience that we can start working on for a brief.

People Watching in CBD

Today we went on a field trip to the CBD to observe people in their natural environment, the city centre. We chose to go to Lambton quay at lunch time as we thought that this was filled with people that fell into our target audience. It was also the busiest place in Wellington where we thought we would witness the most stress and interesting activity. As I am from Upper Hutt I don't often walk around Wellington city so I really enjoyed this new busy environment. What I found most interesting about this people watching was how amongst the chaos there was an in the foot traffic where people were literally acting like cars in traffic (e.g. sticking to the left, overtaking, having a speed limit and even some form of indication before changing direction). This was quite amusing/entertaining to observe while sitting down but as soon as we starting walking we found ourselves subconsciously following these road rules. Another thing we noticed was that people showed no form of interaction with each other unless to share a joke or embarrassing moment to share in the joy. An example of this was when a man ducked for a pigeon and saw us watching we laughed it off together, which was the first form of interaction all day. So from these observations we started asking what if questions in an attempt break this stigma of head down don't interact and get to destination. My first test was to simple yell out a loud bird-like noise to see who was engaged in their real surrounding. When I yelled only one man looked up in a disgusted manor as if to say to me that I had intruded his anti social bubble he was in. We then tried making direct eye contact and smiling at people as we walked by. we got more responses from this experiment. A mixed range it seemed that the kids and senior citizens smiled back but the business people remained unresponsive (and one construction worker took my smile and eye contact as flirting :/ ). I found this to be a great insight in how serious and professional the business people thought that they needed to be. This was also seen in the balloon video that we recorded on our work blog. This field trip has been very helpful with our journey maps and gaining a greater understanding/empathy for our target audience.    

Journey Mapping

During Week 2 Session 2 and also on Monday we completed a range of journey maps on a range of different profiles that we made up, based in our findings from the slip exercise of business people aged 25 to 45 getting from A to B. We chose this audience because we didn't want to do students as we felt the focus is always on students and the age range is because we wanted to focus on young professionals in the city centre and that age range covers business people of all levels. From the journey maps we were able to gain a deeper empathy and insight for a range of different personalities and what they think, feel and experience on their journey and where the stress might be initiated from. This allowed us to gather ideas of where we might target this brief and help specify the stressful areas that need attention.  

Week 2 EX-CHANGE

Today in the last 30 minutes of class we got into our exchange groups filled with a range of different disciplines to discuss our briefs and projects. In my group (18) we had Raph (VCD), Fran (VCD), Callum (Industrial), Bree (Spatial), Jessie (Fashion). Jessie and Fran weren't there but we had a very interesting conversation about our briefs and projects so far. Although Raph is in the same discipline as me because he is in a different stream and doing the stress of moving it was interesting to hear where he's at with his project. It was also nice to hear what other design students are doing as we are trapped in our VCD world we don't often get to exchange our ideas and what we are working on. Callum's and Bree's briefs were quite similar to ours where in third year we are heading into more research and insight based design preparing us for our fourth year projects.
We have set up a group chat on facebook so that we can stay in touch and see how everyone is getting on through their projects.  

SLIP Exercise

In session 1 week 2 with the information we had gathered over the weekend we completed the SLIP exercise which helped channel our findings into key points and from their we found that from the large group of people questioned the most common cause of stress in the city is getting from 'A to B' and the experience/journey in between. We found that the most common activity that people do to reduce their stress is to have 'alone time' where they take a moment to themselves away from other people and the business. The most common reason people don't do things that they feel will reduce their stress is 'lack of time' or they 'don't think they have the time'.

Interviewing and Gathering Insight

During session 2 week 1 as a team we compiled a list of open ended questions to help gather insight into the stress and the city brief. We exchanged these questions with another group that was doing the stress of moving and found out some new information from those girls. What I found was most noticeable in that exchange was their idea of nature. That team mostly being from the Mount etc, They said that the beach to them was calming. This was an opening to me as I had just been viewing nature as in greenery and forgot about the wider perception of nature to people. This was also brought up again when asking the same questions to my wider family over the weekend.
As my family lives in Upper Hutt they had similar views to me so I asked my Aunties , Uncles and cousins that live in Wellington which gave quite different answers. I found this insightful as the juxtaposed between an outsiders view of the city and an insiders view of the city.

Teams and Research

In class yesterday we gathered into three groups based on our reading that we chose and discussed the insight that we got from the text and why people chose it personally. I found my classmates insight very interesting because I was not expecting their reasons to vary so much. Although most of them said that they liked the broadness of this brief, it was interesting how much their personal background/relation to city living impacted their final choice.
I have teamed up with Georgia and Hannah for this project I know them but have not worked with them before so I am excited to work with them.
In preparation for next class I did some further research for stress in the city to gain further insight. From the reading what I, and most people that read this reading, found stood out was the idea that the presence of nature reduces stress. So I looked into it further and found quite a bit of information that that backs this idea. As humans are animals having our natural habitat present is something familiar to us which in turn is calming.      

Choice from Readings

During week 1 session 1 we were given three reading in class to read and reflect within the table groups. For independent study we were to read all the readings (Stress and the city, Stress of moving, and Stress of driving) and decide on our favourite one to continue through the project with. For the 'stress of moving' reading I felt that I could not relate to this brief and have a deep enough, personal understanding of it as I have never moved before. As for the stress of driving, while I was reading this text I also did not personally relate to it as I drive into uni every day and find driving quite therapeutic.
The stress in the city text spoke to me the loudest and also while reading this text I thought this was the most broad in opportunities for this project. As I am constantly traveling from Upper Hutt to Wellington and back, I am constantly moving in and out of the city so I felt that by getting a fresh exposure of the city everyday I notice the chaos and stress more than people that live in the city might.

Team's Online Workbook

Here is the link to our group online workbook
http://georgiahannahfarrenwellbeing.blogspot.co.nz/