[Week 11] Softs Plan

According to the last blog, we went through the playtest day and got totally 25 pieces of test data from the event. In this week, we mainly did these progress: Data Analysis: We spent a lot of time sorting through…

[Week 10] Playtest Day

In this week, we have the BIG EVENT on Saturday, which is the Playtest Day! Since it’s such a big event, and we can gain a lot of useful feedback, data and materials for us to evaluate the function of…

[Week 9] GDC Week

In this week, most of us were absence because of GDC. Jessica’s Feedback Review: We had a meeting with Jessica to review the mixed feedback we created with real feedback from her talk and sample feedback we wrote after mimicking…

[Week 8] Tests

After halves, our project focus shifted from exploration and ideation to testing and iteration. After discussing with Jessica in our regular meeting, we totally have 4 opportunities for us to test. Opportunity #1: Ricardo’s DAS class Opportunity #2: Class context…

[Week 7] Halves Presentation

We made our halves presentation on Monday this week!!! After preparing and rehearsing for the presentation for so many times, we finished our final presentation fluently and successfully within our expectation. The process is quite smooth, and we’re so happy…

[Week 6] Filer

In the regular meeting with Jessica, we discussed about the 3 ideas and she gave us some insights about the ideas. Garden + Postal Service Idea Lovebird Idea  Filer Tinder Idea After having an team meeting after the instructor meeting,…

[Week 5] Iteration

After generating 30 concepts of the idea for our project, we voted in our group and also sent all the concepts to Jessica to let her help us pick some. In the regular meeting with Jessica, we basically discussed every…

[Week 4] Ideation

As mentioned in the Week 3 blog, we’ve been divided into 3 groups to individually develop our ideas based on the 3 questions. In this week, we worked as 3 groups and brainstorm ideas first, then made simple 30 prototype…

[Week 3] 1/4 workarounds

In this week, we went though the 1/4 walkaround, and got lots of useful and insightful suggestion and inspirations from faculty. We used FigJam to sort all of the feedback, and made a team meeting to decide what we should…

[Week 2] Background Research

In this week, we had our first in-person meeting with Jessica in CMU HCII session. In this meeting, we previously did some researches on these questions from Jessica: To answer these questions, we divide our works to 2 parts. One…