Saturday 29 October 2011

How?

The inner components were designed and evaluated by both Yoakim and myself. This is the inner components section taken from the powerpoint presentation.
Tank Display:

Heart Rate Monitor Wristband:


Friday 28 October 2011

The Presentation

Presentations: We presented very last, which I think added to my nerves on the day. I was fairly blown away with the work that the other groups had produced, there were some really awesome designs. I was happy with how I spoke and presented the scenario aspect during the presentation. Because we really tried to keep the overall presentation to 10 minutes (which proved unnecessary), I shortened the scenario section so that I was only talking about the most important details. I believe the scenario video covered most of the scenario fairly exactly, as it was very successful in conveying exactly what happened with the product. I could of expanded A LOT more about our specific persona during the presentation, however, not to worry, I have now included all of that information in my blog. 

Feedback: Overall feedback from Tim and Marianella was positive, however, Yasu wanted to know a bit more about the behaviour of the produced design. As there was not a working model of the tank in the end, so he was confused as to exactly how the track assisted the fish by moving them around the tank. Yoakim agreed that this was something he would look further into, and communicate the intention further by presenting it on both the boards and in his blog. 

Thoughts: If I could do the presentation again, I would. I would of liked to spend more time formatting the presentation. If I had the chance I would not try and reduce my speech in order to correctly meet the designated time. I was quite surprised they were not pulling groups up for going over time- however, there were many complications getting each of the role play videos working. If there was another chance-  a working model would of been very beneficial. Overall I do like the design we have come up with, and I personally would love to get my hands on this product and test it out, competing with my friends.

Monday 24 October 2011

The Day Before..

I spent the entire day today busy perfecting, adding and editing the presentation for tomorrow. NEVER under estimate how long a presentation takes to put together. Yoakim spent the day in the workshop further designing the LED display that was to go in the heart-rate monitor wristband. I wish I was able to sit in the behaviour lessons as I was unable to assist him with the programming. This appeared to be valuable knowledge that he did learn, however, it was a very time consuming process, and would of benefited by multiple people working on the programming. Here are some snapshots of the final presentation. 
Scenario example: Defining some information about the chosen persona. I chose this image as they look to be the correct age, and appear happy.
Object example: For this in use shot of the wristband I took photos of my own wrist and edited them placing the front and back renders on the appropriate images. I was happy with this image!
Behaviour Example: This was a display diagram that Yoakim put together later in the afternoon when he began helping me with the presentation. In specific he covered his part in more detail (behviour), and added more information regarding the components into Bec's section (object).

The Final Scenario Video

After a long day of shooting at Yoakim's house, we had all of the scenes we needed to compose the video. As my video formatting skills are somewhat lacking, Yoakim agreed to put the video together. I could not be happier with the result.