An inspiring design presentation on Zoom
Last week, we attended the class through Zoom, during which we represent our design and plans for the given tasks. It was quite a fresh experience for me, both the content and the form of the class.
The task for our group was to design a four-week session for the students to take full use of the maker space and to learn something about Roman architecture. And we naturally came up with a competition which requires students to absorb the architect elements from what they learnt from Ancient Rome and build their own architecture prototypes. We applied the iteration concept and allowed students to listen to others' advice and make adjustment after each session. We also make constraints for them, like the materials and the size of the model, to encourage them to think more deeply.
Our group member Todd was the leader of this project and his trial of using Explain Everything to represent our work was quite impressive to me. The main idea was to show the text content of each of our session one by one and eventually build an arch. Also we find the tool great in showing pictures and making annotation on them. While learning a new software, especially the one with diverse affordance still cost us some time. And we find the design of switching from the function to move an object to select it a little bit tricky. Sometimes we want to move an object away, but instead we just select it and edit it. Anyway, it's a great tool worthwhile we spend time to get familiar with and it's nice we finally make the presentation work. Todd and Explain Everything did a great job!
I also appreciated the work of other groups. I remember a team actually went to the maker space and designed their challenge there. They made trial with the materials they could find in maker space, which was rather convincing.
To review the whole process, we did practice some content of the design thinking we had learnt, but there're also a lot of things we could do better. For example, perhaps we should have talked to our target group, the teachers and students. Maybe we could think out of the box and came up with something other than a prototype competition. I'm looking forward to learn more from this class and to do better work for my final design.
The task for our group was to design a four-week session for the students to take full use of the maker space and to learn something about Roman architecture. And we naturally came up with a competition which requires students to absorb the architect elements from what they learnt from Ancient Rome and build their own architecture prototypes. We applied the iteration concept and allowed students to listen to others' advice and make adjustment after each session. We also make constraints for them, like the materials and the size of the model, to encourage them to think more deeply.
Our group member Todd was the leader of this project and his trial of using Explain Everything to represent our work was quite impressive to me. The main idea was to show the text content of each of our session one by one and eventually build an arch. Also we find the tool great in showing pictures and making annotation on them. While learning a new software, especially the one with diverse affordance still cost us some time. And we find the design of switching from the function to move an object to select it a little bit tricky. Sometimes we want to move an object away, but instead we just select it and edit it. Anyway, it's a great tool worthwhile we spend time to get familiar with and it's nice we finally make the presentation work. Todd and Explain Everything did a great job!
I also appreciated the work of other groups. I remember a team actually went to the maker space and designed their challenge there. They made trial with the materials they could find in maker space, which was rather convincing.
To review the whole process, we did practice some content of the design thinking we had learnt, but there're also a lot of things we could do better. For example, perhaps we should have talked to our target group, the teachers and students. Maybe we could think out of the box and came up with something other than a prototype competition. I'm looking forward to learn more from this class and to do better work for my final design.
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