Final Presentation

So today was the day of final presentation and hand-in. I was super stoked with how my whole project had come along, and also how well the presentation went.

Firstly, I feel like the dossier looked really clean and well-designed, with heaps of visuals to assist with the text. I feel like it was super informative, with the necessary information, although the illustrations with it help to communicate and re-enforce each idea a lot stronger than just a whole bunch of text.

Secondly, the presentation. I really wanted to make sure my presentation stood out from the rest and would be remembered, as there is literally nothing worse than sitting in presentations and seeing people just talking to a couple of photos on the screen. So I decided to create my whole powerpoint so that it was a whole bunch of illustrations of my user persona Alexis going through the whole user journey. How he interacts with is before, during and after are key aspects of my design strategy proposal so I decided that this was the best way to do it.

Using an actual character to show it helps the audience easier understand and gain empathy for the character, and realise exactly how they would interact with is and exactly how it would help them out.

So I was stoked to hear from Phoebe and Tim afterwards that I really nailed the presentation, and that they were impressed with how much work I had done considering I was on my own. On that point, I was quite surprised and in some ways disappointed to see how heaps of groups hadn't actually done more work than me. In some cases, there were groups of three that had done far less. If I, on my own, could produce a whole design strategy with multiple effective touchpoints, then I would've thought a group of three would've had a much easier job doing so.

However, I am really stoked with how it went, over the moon.

I'm unsure what I would do differently if I were to do it again. However, if I had a further two months to work on the project, I would just continue to refine and massage out certain aspects of the strategy, and continue to make the whole thing super user-centred, so that the user feels connected, valued, and welcome.

I think my project turned out really well, and it is crazy to look back and see my initial ideation sketches in comparison to this final output a few weeks later. Lingotime, I feel perfectly responds to the brief I had written for Alexis in the first term, as it is a way of helping people to connect to one another, while having a fun, unique and engaging way to do so.

I really enjoyed this paper, and it's exciting to now be ready to go into fourth year and see what I can do. A big thank you to Phoebe and Tim for teaching our class for this paper.