1. What skills have you developed through this module and how effectively do you think you have applied them?
Well throughout this module there have been several different types of design I have had to use, as many of the briefs I under took were quite different to each other, the larger briefs especially forced me to develop and use areas of design I was not familiar or comfortable with.
Bacardi
In the Bacardi Brief, I felt I developed my final product and presentation skills, as it forced me to create a product using materials and methods I had not used before and this has really helped my confidence when it comes to the actual products I can physically create instead of just proposing all of my concepts. I made use of the 3D wood workshop that the college has and used the technicians to help me decide the best way to go about producing the product, this in some way helped my collaboration skills as I had to work closely with the technician to ensure he understood what I wanted as well as what would be required from the final piece so he could make it with both aesthetics and stability in mind.
I also used the laser cutter in the Bacardi brief, which was another first for me, it again took help from technicians and peers but it is a new skill I have learned and will confidently be able to use in future progress, I made some mistakes in this brief but I have learned from them and will do better next time.
Churchill
In the Churchill brief I learned and developed several elements of design I was not used to before this module, I learned how to successfully collaborate with another designer throughout an entire brief to use both our individual skills to bring the brief together. I think when me and Josh started our idea of what we would produce and how we would produce it was very different to the outcome we ended up with, however it again forced us out of our comfort zone, but we worked well together and complimented each others skills.
Also in the Churchill brief i had the challenge of designing and presenting the concept of the app which was one of the main elements of our concept, as I had never done this before and had no idea how apps were created or worked, it forced me to learn about it which I am grateful of and will definitely use again in the future. However I did not have to design the visuals of the App but more explain the navigation and the reason behind the app, so learning about how websites and apps navigation are visualised helped me create the infographics that we used for the presentation boards.
General developments
I think the presentation boards that I am creating are improving, this module has forced me to become a bit better at working out what I need to present as well as how I will present them, I am creating new and different grids for the layout and producing some boards I am really happy with.
2. What approaches to/ methods of design production have developed and how have they informed your design development process?
Designing
faster and making more informed and fast design decisions on smaller
quicker briefs. for the smaller briefs I undertook, I think the design
process I used has developed. I tried to make quicker and more informed
design decisions which is an element I usually struggle with.
Working collabritavely is a completely new way of approaching a brief, usually in the past in the briefs we have worked as a collaboration, it has usually been the case that we sit down and their is a lot of umming and arring and the design that is developed is usually not to everyone's taste but you go with it because the majority agree it would be a good idea. However just working with one other designer there is more room for nagotiations and it ended up being a really useful way of working as you can bounce ideas off of each other and you get a full and honest response rather than someone agreeing because they don't want to hurt your feelings.
3. What strengths can you identify in your work and how have/ will you capitalise on these?
The outcomes I have produced in some of these briefs has personally helped my confidence, I think I have created some nice outcomes of products that I could possible put towards a portfolio, at the beginning of the year I was a much less confident with the designs I was producing, but getting a little confidence back is really helping my motivation as well.
4. What weaknesses can you identify in your work and how will you address these in the future?
I still need to organise my time management and organisation especially as we have several modules on all the time, working out the hierachy of importance for breifs is still quite tricky, this is something i write in every module evaluaton we get and it is something i never intentionally aim to fall down on, but I will always be developing this skill and can only try to experiment with ways of organising myself and my time and find the best one for me.
Blogging my research, this is the one area that lets me down every module, I always do so much more research than I blog on the context blog, I find a lot of the time the way I research is the cause of this, i tend to research everything i need and say to myself I will come back and blog it later, this seems to never happen as I eitehr lose the location of the research i have found or forget that I researched it. therefore in the next modules and from this point on i aim to blog everything as and when i do it as this is obviously the way that it must be done, but I often get confused with the order I should blog the research i have found because it all seems to be a little random unless a specific research 'story' is followed.
5. Identify five things that you will do differently next time and what do you expect to gain from doing these?
- Blog all research on context of practice blog, as and when I do it, this will also be applied to the design process blog, I could also blog work I produce as and when I produce it to avoid me forgetting certain elements and having to blog full briefs at once.
- Have the confidence to go and ask technicians to help with the design process so that I can get an expert opinion instead of designing what i think would be the most effective / simplest approach. They have helped me hugely over some of these breifs and I have not been utilising them properly in the past.
- Have confidence with my designs and my design concepts, not all of them will always be accepted but I have to have the confidence to put my ideas and work forward otherwise what is the point of me doing it.
- Do more competition breifs whenever I get the chance, as they really are a tool for design practice, I have learnt a lot from this module and can only learn more, it also helps force me out of my comfort zone, by accepting briefs I would not usually consider under taking.
- Keep developing my time Management and Organisationg skills, I need to stay ontop off all things at all times and at some points at the minute I feel lost and don't know where to start and this has caused me problems in past briefs.
6. how would you grade yourself on the following areas?
Attendance - 4
Punctuality - 4
Motivation -4
Commitment -3
Quantity of work produced - 3
Quality of work produced -4
Contribution to the group -5
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