Presentation

Well the presentation went very well yesterday all in all. As you can see in the (surely final) critical image below, the objects have been made. All our critique was very good, our rationale is flawless (booyahkasha) and the iphone app was performing well, basically everything is fine except for our cardboard writing tablet and wooden (post receiving) table.

These two objects were in actual fact only criticized by one lecturer, and I was entirely unimpressed. His focus is product design, so of course I have no reason to doubt he qualifies to crit our work, but what he critisised was entirely his doing. The industrial designer, Martin, was told not to make the writing tablet in wood, that this had to be done in cardboard. As the interaction designer I thought this entirely deflated the whole metaphor of old versus new. It was warped by the paint and was very disappointing. In hindsight we should not have listened to him, and should have continued where we were going in the first place. If you remember, our first prototype was wooden and was much admired by Margery. If we had maintained the wood throughout the process then I think more passion would have gone into it's manufacture, regardless of the fact that 'we are not furniture designers'. (We aren't anything but students right now, and we are capable of learning and learning alone.)

 

Naturally the same lecturer admired an other groups prototype for resembling something out of Star Wars (their concept had nothing to do with this film of course) and then criticized another prototype for being white card (as opposed to ...?).

Good news is - the hand in for IMD is done. Now is the time (4 weeks to do this) to make the prototypes how they should always have been - and we will NOT be leaving anything to chance. I'm more than happy to be a regular customer at B&Q.

Here is the final Image, a little last minute and I may well re-photoshop the image, but It displays the who, why, what, where and when of the concept, and sets the context beautifully, if I do say so myself!