Sunday, February 2, 2014

Summary of Wayfinding project

The project was going smoothly for the most part, many of the team members were willing to exchange ideas and to work together in order to bring about a simple solution. We focused on one location that had three possible entrances and we made an idea with combining our strengths in order to see if we could achieve the results that we needed. Two of my teammates were good with Photoshop and illustrator so they were in charge of making the arrows and logos that we would need in the future, I was good at sketching so I was the one who did preliminary sketches here and there to see if the arrow idea would fit.
We all went to the location together at Wescoe and we photographed at different parts of the entrances to the Underground, the easy part was giving each other the photographs. This was done by using a group specific file on Google Drive which allows us to share, edit and save photos and diagrams that the others have made.
One difficult issue was the issue of meeting during that last week of the project, the first week went fine but the second week that we had was a disaster. We tried to meet on Friday of that week so that we could start building the final steps to the project. But the team could not figure out a good enough time to meet, so we ended up meeting at four thirty when the print shop and KU art shop were about to close. The teammate in charge of changing the logo had to go back in and redesign it. We couldn't print anything even though we managed to get our hands on some foam core. And I had to leave early that day because I had other homework and plans.
The next time we were supposed to meet was on that Sunday and nobody answered their cellphone when I tried contacting them so I was left in the dark on how they were proceeding with their parts. And when we DO meet I cant meet because they always met on a weekday where I had class and I couldn't make it to the meeting because class has top priority.
Another issue was the fact that our teachers were very vague about the project offering very little information and advice leaving us to mostly our own devices. This is usually good but when our professor cant provide us with enough info so that we are not wandering into the project blindly something is wrong.
Despite all these difficulties from what I can gather our project was successful in what we have, its not the best but the prototypes look like they can actually become part of the Underground. And our team wasn't that bad either, there was no conflict outside of the meeting time fiasco and the process book was easy enough to make.

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