Since the last meeting, I had typed out the introduction, and the final outcome. I had also drafted out the essay and compiled the different parts that my group members did. Chloe and Candy worked on personas and scenarios, whilst Vita worked on the survey part.

Note to self; do a self check on,

- thoughts about the project

- how we did it, why we did it

- how each step we went through was useful

- any interesting discovery?

- reflections

Today was a crucial meeting. We had to discuss our final essay, compile each of our research work, and delegate jobs to one another. We also discussed on each of the personas that we created, and talked about the final outcome of “Product X”, as mentioned in the video. Vita also showed us a video on Nokia’s Technology, which was quite a good reference that definitely helped us in finalizing “Product X”.

We also had consultation with Blair, which was more of clarifying our doubts, and queries on what was expected of the essay. Since this project is about Interaction Design and going through the Design Process, Blair mentioned that we had to focus more on;

1. How we applied the design process into the project

2. Talk about readings and how it helped us

3. Mention briefly how the final outcome is going to work

More info can be found on my group’s wiki page. 

We didn’t really have a meeting, just merely gathered our ‘homework’, for the consultation with blair. Just thought I should still record what we’ve done. Each of us came up with different personas/senarios for the different age group. I was working on the elderly, so I came up with “Uncle Bob”. The above are my scribbles/rough ideas. Do view the simplified/neater version here.

*Personas/senarios did help in the decision making process, where by we question, and lay second thoughts on concluding which is a better choice of a proposed device. It gives a clear view on how we can amend and make it better.

I fell really sick so I wasn’t present for this meeting, but I’ve received a note from Candy, of what the rest of the group had discussed with Blair.

She said that during consultation, Blair wanted them to work on personas and scenarios. As for personas, my group members had split 4 different group of users that are mainly made up of students, junior employees, senior employees, and the elderly. They had given me a task to work on the elderly group, so I had to come up with a name, his/her characteristics and personality. With that in mind, I have to write a brief description for this particular elderly character, and think of the kind of system which suits him/her.

Candy also gave me a very good example. For instance, since I’m working on the elderly age group, I have to think of a really easy way/soulution so that they are able to use the product, because I have to keep in mind that the elderly may not be familiar with the latest technology.

That should summarize up meeting nine. The next group meeting would be on the 14th of May, after class.

We did more sketches for the final part of the scene, discussed on the cd cover, and finalized our video. I proposed a range of cd covers, got the freeware cow fonts from Takasakiyama, but it probably didn’t turn out well. For now, all I need to do is to continue recording a sexy voice that narrates the story that I wrote for the video, and hopefully our bits of effort will be able to help Vita complete the video on time.

Note to team researchers: I’ve updated our wikidesign page.