In week one we covered the requirements for deliverable 1:

• Brand
• Low/mid fi project - should be functional for early testing
• Backup research
  • Intro project
  • Idea generation
  • Competitor analysis
  • User research
  • User flows
  • Sketches/wireframes
  • Critical awareness and debate
• Recorded presentation
  • informal run through
  • Cover questions given near time

Key dates:

• Tuesday 13th December = last teaching week
• Thursday 5th January = deadline for 501
• Week 3 we need three ideas

Things to note:

• Maze could be good for user testing

Once we finished going over the basic year start material we looked more in depth at idea generation techniques - this was especially useful as it gave us a range of options to use for generating new ideas. To think of a unique and useful idea for our Major Project we will have to continue idea generating to think of many ideas to then narrow it down to three and then one to move forward with. If I was to even use three of the following idea generation methods I could have multiple ideas which I could move forward with and expand on

Idea Generation Techniques :

• Mind mapping
• Brain storming (post it notes etc)
• Visual thinking
• Sketching