This week was all about design and storytelling, which is definately something I can get behind. We were shown various videos which demonstrated the various ways you can tell a story to an audience. These included film, text, documentary and data visualisation. The examples that we saw were amazing and found myself being completely drawn in, especially to the video about the bear.
We also watched a video from Tim Brown and about ‘Innovation through Design Thinking’. I really liked this video and it expressed design in terms that I felt I, as a creative writer and mainly literary thinking, could get involved with. The idea that design was not simply how to make thing aesthetically pleasing but much more and actually concerned with how to better things was one that I got the sense everyone agreed with.
I also particularly identified with the idea that the world was not simply to be used for validation of ideas but also for inspiration and to generate ideas. This is something that we have as a group and a class been very practised in.
Another amazing thing happened with week….. JumpAr won an award!!!!!!!!! It was for best prototyping which was very nice as it provided us with validation for the hard work we have been putting in as team but also because the actually prototyping tasks was so much fun- great! Hopefully this will be the start of many more awards to come- next stop Nobel Prize!!!!!
Our task for this week was to create personas and produce a film about them. This should be very interested as our team has been exploring the idea of our users and trying to pin down who they are, by asking ourselves questions which this task will demand but also constructing a questionaire which should make things more clear.
Yvonnie
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