Week 2

Today was our first contact class. I was very excited about meeting my new class mates and learning about what we have to do in this course and who we were doing it with.

When i first walked it, it was very quiet. There were only a few people talking to each other, meaning that literally barely anyone know each other in this contact class (which was a good sign for me). Luckily to break the silence, the head tutor organised for everyone to stand next to there birthday month displayed on signs around the room. This is where we were asked the question:

• what is your favourite animal?
• what is your favourite colour?
• what is your favourite super hero power?

We then went around the group and answered the questions in a polite manner. This luckily broke the tension within the group. We then followed with some activities displaying the same short of notion to break the tension among peer members.

The question was then asked in small groups to us.

What idea would you like to analyse within Trove (a search engine website)?

We then conversed for about a hour about some ideas that we could make more specific within Trove and what specific audience we would want to target.

Many ideas that were discussed were about many random topics. They ranged from information about fries to history of diseases in Australia.

My favourite idea was about finding out about murders. Within Trove we would implement a new search engine that was specific about:

• Finding the history of the murdered.
• How old they were
• How many kills
• How they were killed
• What time period that they were active
• Finding information about there victims
• Newspaper articles about the murderer

Another idea that was put forward was an idea about diseases within Australia.

We thought about:

• history of the disease
• how it the disease came about
• how many deaths from the specific disease

Below shows a few more ideas that we came up with :)

What i thought about this week:

I thought this week was good as we were able to break the ice with the other students and people were able to express there ideas about the Trove concepts. 

What I liked:

i thought the team building activity was great as it would be really awkward without it 

What i disliked:

I didn't have a clear idea about Trove was and what information we could find on the search engine; so i just started blurting out ideas that wouldn't make sense for future applications. 

LECTURE

Started the week in my DECO1800 lecture where i learnt about many aspects of design and what the steps are to formulate the design life cycle.

What is Design??

Quote :

"as designers, we observe, build on the ideas of others"

This quote got me thinking about the different approaches to design and how they can be formulated into many different aspects of our everyday lives.

"making thing’s better for people"

This quote also made me think. What is design???

• Is it fixing the dishwasher for effectively??
• Is it cutting a apple differently??
• Is it arranging the cushions in a particular fashion that makes it more comfortable??
• Is it arranging your new furniture??

I think all these questions can be incorporated into design  as each individual idea is new and innovative.

We also learnt about the Design Life Cycle

The problem > Design process  > First insight > preparation > incubation > illumination > vertification

From this design life cycle i learnt that the cycle doesn't end. This meaning we are forever trying to invent new innovative items that make things better for more people.