#donezo!

[maskshop]

a dryad whose ivy infection is terminal. bugs are moving into her body as she slows down and becomes uprooted. available on etsy.

[lenniershairlessredacted]

in true back-on-my-bullshit fashion, I waited until the morning of the grace-extended tax deadline to file. anyway. donezo!!!

[cjquitazol]

FINAL REFLECTIVE STATEMENT

Well aight, how to start this off... Hmm.. This isn’t really my first time working with someone on a project before. I’ve been a part of a couple of group assessments for my minor so I have no problem with working with other people. 

Me and John partnered up for this project. We worked really well during our design jams, and got along pretty good. Sharing ideas was no problem, and we’d be on the same page most of the time. However, we would execute our ideas differently as we both have different styles, which is not necessarily a problem but it definitely isn’t efficient. We got around this predicament by combining both our style together to create our designs. 

During one of our design jams, we came up with a problem relating to public transport and solve that problem by creating an app. The problem was “not knowing where to get off when you’re in the bus/ not knowing your destination.” Both of us have experienced this problem before so we came up with a persona that portrayed us.  Jamal (our persona) is a new uni student and he doesn’t know where to get off. 

We came up with an idea that what if there was an app that would inform you nearby landmarks associated with your bus stop, as that would help you identify when to get off. This idea further evolved to where the app would notify you, via alarm, on when to press the stop button (this was actually a suggestion from one of our class discussions). 

Me and John both had a clear idea on how our app, BAPS, would look like. This made designing the app quite straight forward and easy to do. Further into the project, me and John had communication issues which made it hard to progress and ended up doing the work individually and having two separate designs. We eventually sorted out the issue and continued working collaboratively. We focused on one design and built up on it. This approach not only allowed us to work faster and more efficient, but also helped us understand how we work. We both learnt of each other. 

Overall, I personally think we did a good job with creating our app and really pleased with our design. Making the app made me more aware of allowing enough space between each design element. And I definitely believe that I improved on my typographic design which needed refinement earlier this semester. 

If I could do something differently next time, I would sort out any communication issues asap before anything gets too serious and share out my design more to obtain useful feedback towards my work. 

[dudeself]

lmao LOVE when cis people try to invalidate your trans-ness because you "haven't always known" like.... okay have you always known everything about yourself? i'm sorry that trans people exist on the margins of society and that i didn't even know trans men existed until i was 20? like fuck off

[complete-my-joy]

College

Checked that off my list