Evolve, Innovate and Pivot - Alec's lecture was an enjoyable lesson, time and time again he mentioned that it's ok to adapt, it's ok to change, be agile. It's a vital part of what we do and Iget so wrapped up in final outcomes I forget to focus on the process and the development. Intern… Continue reading Week 1: Research
Firstly, I am so sad this is the last blog post of GDE720 - I have really loved this module, it's been so much fun and such an in depth insight into my locality that I wasn't expecting. Before I created my video, I wanted to really analyse my project and service design - I'm… Continue reading GDE720 – Week 12 : Workshop Challenge
This weeks lecture looks at design effectiveness and how evaluating a project is an essential stage of your process. Landor's case study video really showed that by realising how the project turned out and it's successes and failures, you can really evaluate the effectiveness of your work and take this forward. I LOVED their slogan… Continue reading GDE720 – Week 12 : Research
I was considering choosing a different idea for this week's work - I'd been really inspired by some of the Green Spaces or 2nd hand clothing posts and ideas, but I think I've just got this need to look more into the empty shops in York. I picked up on it in the first module… Continue reading GDE720 – Week 11 : Workshop Challenge
It was quite a small week on the lecture and research front but it was full of valuable information. It's also an eye opener into what we're doing this week - hopefully getting to really interact and work with others on our course which is exciting! Our question this week from the lecture is how… Continue reading GDE720 – Week 11 : Research
I'm excited to get my teeth into this week - we're looking at issues affecting our localities and there are quite a few I coud pick out. I really want to choose three that I feel I've seen the biggest effects of, the ones that I feel affect this city the most. I posted the… Continue reading GDE720 – Week 10 : Workshop Challenge
This week is a continuation from last week's socially motivated graphic design - addressing the social or political questions relating to our locality. It's about addressing and improving the way we live and identifying problems in our locality. This week we heard from Hefin Jones who discussed the ways we should go about engaging with… Continue reading GDE720 – Week 10 : Research
Task 1: Research three user-centred design processes or tools that can be used to discover a core need or problem e.g. customer journey maps, service safaris, a day in the life, cultural probe, double diamond.Select one process and write a short 100-word description to illustrate how it can be used to discover an insight or… Continue reading GDE720 – Week 9 : Workshop Challenge
A whole new brief - I'm quite excited about this one, I love the idea of Design for good. This week, however, we're looking into Service Design and the purpose behind the design process that take place. Service Design is centred around 5 objectives: User Centred DesignCo-Creative DesignSequencingEvidencingHolistic Each of these objectives offer a view… Continue reading GDE720 – Week 9 : Research
I've really delved into the design side of this project this week and building on last week, I'm excited to immerse myself in this experiment. I want to really utilise the characteristics of each street in what's being said, it needs to be powerful and hard hitting and it needs to be very "in your… Continue reading GDE720 – Week 8 : Workshop Challenge
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