Review One

Yesterday I had my first formal review. It was not too bad but I think it could have run a little smother. For some reason I had decided to do it from Compendium early in the afternoon but I had not done everything I needed to to update my compendium database. My Compendium layout is pictured to the right, you can click on it to view it at full size.

During the review a few interesting things were brought up including some aspects of my reasoning for the project and my reasoning for the specific sub projects. Though I had answers as I always will I think these issues are things I should revisit.

In addition to this I was asked a bit about the review methods that will be used at the end of it all. This is something that I have thought about before and had included in my gantt chart however I think I may try to make it a bigger part of what I am doing. One point in particular concerning how people from these fields like working in this kind of environment and how the like being driven by an industrial designer. Especially in regard to the Copyright project.

One other issue of concern was the name of the copyright project which may need revision. I will be talking this over with my Lawyer later in the week.

Last but not least after this was all done and so on I was talking to the editor for the second project's brief and she was quite interested in some of the methods it proposes. To me, as a design student, they are nothing new or interesting, but to her they were really interesting ways to look at issues. The think she liked was the three teared approach to solution storming with a worst case, mad max case and likely case solution set. This interest, however, brought about an awkwardness when she asked ways to apply this method, specifically the mad max case to problems she deals with. I was not sure of the best way and I think I misrepresented the method. I am going to seek council with Soumitri on this matter tomorrow.