Final User Testing

After making our build water resistant with black electrical tape, we moved to the Hex Box to hang up the LEDs for user testing. For user testing we had two versions of the code that we wanted to evaluate. We were initially unclear as to what components would feel intuitive to users but also had…

Team 2 Weekly Report: Concept Implementation – Moments of Rain

We have finally come up with a suitable name for our installation, Moments of Rain. We saw this as an appropriate name as we felt it was in line with our desire to provide users, specifically students at the MHB, with just a moment of escape. Over the past week, our concept has been realised…

Weekly Report: Design Concept Confirmation

Our concept up to this point has seen a number of changes. After discussing the viability of using a projector for our installation we produced a decision matrix with 3 concepts to clarify the best direction we can take. The three concepts we focused on were: Concept 1 – LED strips inside Hex Box cavities…

Team 2: Updated Team Charter

As you may already know, we lost a team member in week 4 of the semester. Below is the updated team charter (fairly overdue). Everything else has remained the same as we feel we are working well together under our current work ethic.

Weekly Report #5 Team 2: Expansion on Design Concepts

In this weeks session we decided to elaborate on the design concepts we came up with from last week. We initially realised that we may have bitten off more than we could chew for our initial design concepts. A main concern was that there was too much for us to learn in such a short…

Team 2 Blog Post: Retrospective

After completing a milestone in the project, we felt it would be appropriate to hold a team retrospective activity to gain an understanding of how the team worked over the past iteration and uncover any ways we could improve ourselves. The technique employed for this activity was the 4 L’s: Liked, Learned, Lacked, and Longed…

Team 2: Weekly Report 3, A1 in progress

Work for the Design Studio this week was focused towards preparing the report for A1. Team members split up to work on their individual tasks. Messenger was utilised to communicate any concerns that came up. A primary issue that did arise was the loss of one of our members (Khamile). This meant work had to…