J10

I really enjoyed this class as a whole! i came into the quarter with a very hazy view of what exactly are designers and have now left with a better understanding of what they do and how they do it, not a super clear understanding but a much better one then when i started.

i liked the fact that a lot of the work was in groups. some people dont enjoy groups and sometimes they can impair your work, but i have found that working with other people is very important in the design world. its good to have groups because it gives you people to bounce ideas off of and improve and fine tune ideas.

i read gabes finally thoughts for the course and saw that he purposely gave us lots of work all due at one time and i think thats smart, but a lot of that work turned out to be dumb busy work that got put on the back burner while doing the bigger tasks of the course and other courses work during the quarter and they ended up not getting done. this is of course all my fault as result of my lack of time management skills, but piling on busy work did not help.

besides that i really enjoyed this class, i looked forward to it a ton more then any other class

J09

My group for the Colman project were my fellow Jacks : payton, Audra, and Kylie.

Our product for this presentation was the U-Stem-sil, the multi use kitchen utensil

THIS  is our presentation that we used that Kylie put together on Prezi.

Our group worked very well together, we listened to each others idea, challenged each others ideas in a non-confrontational way, bounced ideas off of each other, and we used each others strengths to our advantage throughout the whole process.

At first our group was really centered on things that could work for the home and the outdoors. Some of the big aspects about Coleman that we wanted to incorporate in our project were things like being compact, having multiple uses, and being durable. A product that gave us our initial inspiration was the Swiss Army knife and its ability to have so many useful things packed into a small durable space. after coming up with many different options for products we finally landed on the U-Stem-sil.

My primary role in the group was to do the modeling that we used in the presentation. the program i used was google sketchup, which is a terrible modeling program but its free sooooo ya. Audra did work with who our User and Colman is, Kylie collaborated with Audra on that as well as putting together and organizing the final presentation, and payton did work on the logo and product. Basically we all figured out as a group what we wanted for each different section (product, logo, packaging, kiosk) and then each person got what they were going to do and fine tuned it to make it project ready.

here are pictures of what i worked on on Google Sketchup

CR05

I really enjoyed all of the presentations, i thought that everyone did a great job portraying what they wanted out of their project and what it should actually do. people seemed to miss out on why coleman would like their product/packaging/kiosk which is pretty big part of the presentation. i liked the fact that we had some sort of opinion in the grading, somethings that were said in a presentation probably made sense to some and just didnt make any sense at all to others and that will be reflected in the class grade portion. seeing all of the presentations gave me an understanding of what works and what doesnt in situations that will arise that are similar to these. all in all, no complaints about that last 2 days of class!