Week 7 - Tuesday

Going back to uni today was really hard. I still feel so lost with my brief and really worried about how I'm going to move forward with it.
Over the break I really struggled trying to manage my boyfriend's illness and spent most of the first week looking after him, then I myself got run down and have been sick during the second week and still am which has caused me to not give enough time to my project.

My friends are working on a different brief and also struggling to generate fresh ideas. They could see the stress I was under and we came up with the idea to move forward together as a group of 3 in order to get a fresh take on a brief and to support each other.

Class started with a lecture in the Pit and we then moved up into studio to present our homework from over the break as a kind of exchange moment. I really enjoyed the way this was done - we got into groups of 3/4 and presented our findings, then picked our best one and combined with another group to present it, and then the best one from this group went forwarded and presented to the "uber group". After this we moved into studio time for the last hour which was a good chance for us to look at how we were going to move forward as a new group.

Looking at the 2 briefs we decided to continue with the one they had been working on which was called "Sh!t @ social interaction". I downloaded the brief and had a look over it and they told me the avenues of research that they had looked into.

What I gathered is that they are looking at young working professionals who aren't interacting socially outside of their 8-5 work hours, and that our task was to encourage them to connect in order to improve their well being.
The girls have looked into things such as friendable and tinder social but are thinking because these types of apps already exist we need to do something different that might actually make more of an impact and not be "creepy".
Reading over the brief again I pulled out that we need to break their routine of work/home being their only places of being, and how do we motivate them to connect - teach them why it's important, make it the norm.

We spent most of our time going over where they had got to and thinking about how we could move forward especially as we needed to get our idea and prototype it all in time for interim presentation next week. Because the brief was so new to me we decided it would be best to go away and ideate and then come back and make some strong decisions on Friday.

We did make the decision to make a new group combined blog, the link for which is:
http://sasi-sakala.blogspot.co.nz/