Slides for our presentation for BIMK tomorrow can be found here
Archive for November, 2009
Slides for presentation
Sunday, November 22nd, 2009
Balloon night
Wednesday, November 18th, 2009Monday night we all took a break from exam projects and studies. We hung out in the Scrollbar and played with balloons and made silly hats and animals, which are now hanging in the atrium at ITU.
Meeting with Bjarki
Friday, November 13th, 2009We met with Bjarki yesterday to get some feedback and advise for the BIMK exam project. He was very positive and told us that the work we had done so far was good. We recorded the meeting, and you can find the video here
Prototype presentation
Wednesday, November 11th, 2009Today we presented our prototype in the design lab. We showed our animation of Jørgen using the device – you can watch it here
The foosball effect
Wednesday, November 4th, 2009Today we worked with prototypes, and we wanted to develop the idea that we presented last week. We sat down in the scrollbar and tried to come up with something great, but our brains seemed to be pretty empty. To get some help we asked Anni to come and talk to us, and she suggested that we took a break and moved around for a while to clear our heads. So we decided to play a game of foosball, which turned out to be quite a success. When we got back to our sketches at the table, we were all full of energy and ideas.
To try something different we decided to take away the car from our sketch and ask ourselves the question: What would happen if Jørgen only had the bus to bring him to the opera house?
This would change the situation a lot. Jørgen told us at some point, that he doesn’t use public transportation as he finds it uncomfortable and complicated. We came up with a device that will help him take the bus and train without getting lost or being stressed. The assignment was to create a prototype, so we got some materials from the design lab to demonstrate the size and look of our product. I’m now working on a short Flash-movie, that will show how it all works, and we will present the idea next week.
Regarding the changelog
Tuesday, November 3rd, 2009Tess mentioned the changelog in her lecture last week and how she was wondering why some of us have chosen to use a static page in stead of posts for this. I feel the need to do a post explaining my choice.
To me the changelog is mainly something that I update for the lecturers, and I don’t find it relevant for other visitors on my blog. Therefore I don’t want these news to be posted on my front page. I could of course use a plugin that would hide my changelog posts from the front page and post them to a dynamic changelog page instead. But this way I would have more than one page containing posts, and I think this could become quite confusing for my visitors. One of my goals with this blog is to make it simple and easy to use. I have made the changelog a static page to avoid information overload and to reduce complexity.
