This week has been a really busy one. My original plan was to do Final Cut Pro X vs. Premiere for this week’s post, but I realized I’ll have to go pretty in-depth in order to make a fair comparison. So I will do it, just not soon.
Because this week has been so busy (and kind of interesting), I figured I’d recap it. Here’s five things I did this week:
1. Researched a lot about maternity wards, pregnancy and labour
No I’m not pregnant.
A group of friends/classmates and I are working on a project for hospital maternity wards. We want to design an experience for pregnant mothers and supporting partners to help them through the early stages of labour, especially the walking experience. Last week we had people pretend to be pregnant moms and have contractions (see my favourite tweet of all time below) as a part of our user test, which was really funny. Tomorrow we will be doing some paper prototyping and a user test with those prototypes. Next week we’ll probably get into some nicer UI design and maybe some 3D modelling. Should be fun!
2. A LOT OF EMAILING
This is my last semester, and all classes/assignments will be done by mid-April. That means the job hunt is in full swing. Right now it’s a mix of job post searching and emailing people I’ve connected with. I have some contacts from my last internship that have been really, really helpful, so I’m hoping to get back with that company again. We shall see!
3. Going to bed at odd hours
I am definitely a night owl. I will work until all hours of the night to finish something, but I’d rather not do it in the morning if I don’t have too. I also have all of my classes in the afternoon this semester, so that makes for a pretty weird sleep schedule sometimes. I still usually get 8 hours, but the times are definitely not normal (2:00AM, anyone?).
4. Planning for Disney!
I’m headed to Disney in a month, so a group of friends and I have been doing some planning for it. I’m SUPER excited about that. It’s going to be a blast and a great way to end the semester.
5. Taking Mackie for Walks and Hanging Out With My Dad
Mackie is my dog. The rest is pretty self-explanatory. It’s been nice to be just with my dad for a bit!
That’s it! I wish it were more thought out (especially for the second post!) but this week has been insane and I’m afraid if I did pick a topic, I wouldn’t do it justice. I also don’t have anything tooooo creative to show yet, but that’s coming soon. At least with this post I’ll look back years from now and be like “wow that was a crazy week back in 2017”.
Hope whoever is reading this is having a good (and maybe less crazy) week too :)