Today, we handed in our Design Summary. This was the first real assignment for the group. Before that, we threw ideas onto the forum boards to see what was sticky. I'm glad that my idea made it! The design summary was basically an exploratory document that looked at who is the target population, what is a potential scenario for the product, etc. I was the principle writer for the group since it was my original idea and because writing is my strong skill, which is totally fine. One group member was absent last week and this week another group member is absent so we've been working principally through googledocs and email. It's been interesting.
Other groups that I have been in have used googledocs and other collaboration software but never to this degree because people have been missing. That's ok though. It's been a fun experience. We are a strong group and we are all in step for the most part so far. I'm looking forward to the next assignment which is to flesh out the summary into an updated report that is half again as long. I'm excited about thinking and discussing how to make the scaffolding in the app real.
Tuesday, February 19, 2013
Sunday, February 10, 2013
City Tutor
My group has formed and we have named our app City Tutor! The two guys in my group, A and K, are both Human Computer Interaction and at our first meeting we discussed further trying to define what the app does and so forth. Both of them are really interested in doing competitor research and then they split off and were talking in jargon but what I got is that they are going to look at some apps and think about elements that are across apps and that might be useful/interesting to City Tutor.
Where does that leave me? I'm the writer of course. LOL I'm not surprised and actually, it's a bit refreshing. I'm in the usability class as well so watching A and K as they talk about usability and design is really helpful for my other class because I am getting a deeper insight into what all of this means. I do the reading, but its helpful to see it actually applied.
At any rate, I'm writing up the rough draft of our summary assignment and then we are meeting on Mondays to discuss our movement forward from here on out. Should be fun!
Where does that leave me? I'm the writer of course. LOL I'm not surprised and actually, it's a bit refreshing. I'm in the usability class as well so watching A and K as they talk about usability and design is really helpful for my other class because I am getting a deeper insight into what all of this means. I do the reading, but its helpful to see it actually applied.
At any rate, I'm writing up the rough draft of our summary assignment and then we are meeting on Mondays to discuss our movement forward from here on out. Should be fun!
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