For our first brief for Design Process was quite difficult. I was put in a group of 5 people and we were given the word 'routine'. As a starting point we all researched different variations of the word routine. I was given safety routines to look into further. I chose to look into the clean up routine after a natural disaster.
My town was devastated by flooding in June this year, a disaster which has occurred more than once in the last century. I know first hand how this experience can affect families as my own lost their home. When it came time for the group crit I explained my research and received a good response from my fellow group members. After everyone in my group had presented their research we were given the brief 'make someone try something new'. With my research this question was very hard to achieve as it would mean getting people to volunteer in areas of the UK and abroad. As a group we decided that my research did not present enough avenues to go into and therefore chose another persons research.
The subject we chose to go into was Fitness routines, which Ewan had looked into. Trying to come up with new and innovative ways to get people to exercise was very hard as it had been done, or tried to be done, before. We chose to target out project on students as we have a direct connection to a large group of them.
With this focus we designed an easy step-by-step guide to 5 simple exercises for students to do in day-to-day life. We called our brand NUYU. I think our final product was very good and looked the part but that we could have put more time and effort into another form of media (an app). As a group we worked very well together with no disagreements at all but I think like all group work communication was the main problem.
If we were to do this project again I think we would have looked into designing an app instead of a printed poster as students are more likely to engage with a digital form of media rather than print. Overall I am happy with the quality of work we produced but think it would have been better to have had more structure to the group and roles.
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