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Last G9 DPERS Post – Reflection

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While watching the episode of Abstract, one quote that really resinated with me was “I don’t actually make anything or know what to make, unless I know where its going.”  This idea resinated with me because it was similar to me because I couldn’t of designed an About Me poster without knowing the client and understanding what they wanted. This also links into the Seth Godin post about listening clearly and understanding your clients wants.

I think that Adi inspired me to see things differently, because she has such a unique perspective on everything. When we were both working on our DPERs  designs together, she helped me modify mine so that it wasn’t identical to the mentor designs we were given, but stuck to what what my partner wanted, it was just communicating in a way that was more clear and accessible to others.

Digital Perspectives

DP UNIT 2 FINAL

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vATSALS Portfolio-17r2o32

Checklist:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/16zczY_ClRsILf3Q_R31sImzM0XBT_mQkNuM9fTWhZkw/edit

 

Unit 2 Guidebook:

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1-D9HGnl3BVw0F6jdI1zEDYPSrnMOJOCu7kzMKHAYkc8/edit#slide=id.p

 

Vatsals Client Specification:

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1kiX0i4IQDAmyD4aBy6LUB6wkfbSZHZlpLlW4KjaBWBM/edit#slide=id.g2b1f055515_0_86

 

I think that I did a good job communicating and collaborating, because I listened to what my client wanted and I tried to represent that in his poster the best I could. I think I did well collaborating because I was working with people I had never worked with or even spoken to before and I tried my best to support and encourage them. I need to work on self management because since I missed a few lessons I ended up being behind because I never took out some time just to catch up.

 

Here is recording of Annika, Millie and I reflecting on our designs

 

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Does Replika have the potential to teach us how to be a better friend?

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Here is the video that explains what Replika is. ^

I believe that yes, Replika does have the potential to teach us how to be better friends. Users of this app will learn all the right things that the computer says, and could potentially replicate that in their other friendships and relationships. People will be less scared to open up to others because they would of had such a caring response and were able to do it previously in a safer environment. One user even went as far as to say “better than real friends,” because the computer has been programmed to always say the right things, unlike humans who don’t always say what others want them to say. Overall yes, because people will be talking to someone who always says the right things, they will learn and try to emulate those reactions and responses. Which will help people in their other, real, friendships.

But my question is, is it worth it? Users of this will be developing a friendship that isn’t real. In the video someone said, “Less genuine because the conversations are being provoked by codes.” This could be potentially dangerous because users could shut out all real interactions for something that doesn’t exist. Friends do more than just talk to you online and to rely on a person/app that won’t be there for you in real life isn’t healthy. I personally don’t think it is good for users to be sharing your deepest feelings to someone/something that isn’t real instead of an actual friend.Hacker mit Einsen und Nullen - seitlich

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What does the client want? TEDXUWCSEA (Criteria 1 Specification)

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Here are the requirements for the TEDXUWCSEA logo’s we created:

“Reflect the purpose of TEDx and the usage of communication as a medium of peace building.”

  • The “X” should be present in the logo, big and visible
  • The date of the event (January 20th)
  • Somewhere our event ‘TEDxUWCSEA_East’ must be present

 

I think that I need a really good job because I feel that I was able to incorporate all the different requests from the client. I feel that I did reflect the purpose of TEDX by on top of the TEDX I used one of their logos which obviously reflects their mission. I did the same for UWC by using there logo with the name and to combine them I wrote piece by piece and had a person made out of puzzle pieces to show that every little piece of education and learning can make a difference.

Here is my final logo design for reference 🙂

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Attempt One #1 Design Tech TedXUWCSEA

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While creating my TedXUWCSEA logo for the first time, I was using my older laptop and it crashed halfway through and deleted all my work. Below are the screenshots I managed to recover. If you look at my final design logo, some of the work I had started had inspired my final. Having all my work deleted was very difficult because a lot of the small edits that take a lot of time are the things that had been deleted. I managed to persevere and move on and make another logo that in my personal opinion was a huge improvement.

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DP TEDXUWCSEA Process of Creation

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Tell us specifically how research helped this process, and which links you think you need to explore/return to in order to continue with your design

I think it really helped me to look up and try to understand what TEDx’s aim is. I think I need to return to some of the tutorials and look at how they make effective logos because so far mine is a very basic idea.

What was the most complicated thing you taught yourself to do? How did you achieve it?

The most complicated thing that I taught myself to do today is to fill an image with a different color than it originally was on pages. This was actually a lot harder for me than I thought, and as you can see from the screenshots i had to look it up and ask some friends.

Right now, what do you think your design says about both TEDx and the theme Peace by Piece?

Right now, my logo is more about UWC and TEDx and its shared missions to educate and inspire ideas in people. Next class I am going to work on trying to aim is closer to Peace by Piece.

PROCESS:

As you can see my initial ideas are completely different then what I have now. Although some of those screenshots are different because of my computer crashing, I also completely transformed my initial design into what it is now.