Presentation Evaluation

My presentation was in the time amount of 10 minutes, and I believe went well. Apart from some technical difficulties of lagging with the computer, I believe the actual presenting was to the standard of what was expected. Throughout the presentation I re-evaluated my year from the challenges that I had faced, to the achievements I believe I have managed this year. I have understood what type of designer I am and know the areas in which I want to investigate further such as web and UX design. Throughout the presentation I also touched on the aims and ambitions I had at the beginning of the year, which can be found in my manifesto. Such as, gaining the confidence to regularly contact designers I like as well as gain experience within the industry. I also identified where I want to be going next year with my practice, as previously mentioned continue experimenting with specialisms I enjoyed this year and enter more competitions in a collaborative format as I also enjoyed doing so this year to D&AD. Overall I believe the presentation went well and I did well to create a presentation that was out of my normal comfort design, but also retaining with my brand identity and my new work.

Personal Involvement

We were working in a team of 5 which became a team of 4 due to one of the members of the team having to suspend their studies. As part of the team my main responsibilities were contributing towards research and investigation, initial ideas, research and design. I feel as a group we worked well because of our extensive communication over multiple platforms. As a group we fulfilled the briefs requirements and created an outcome we are proud of. Throughout the research and investigation stages I went out to source information from a metal specialist which materials we were using at the time. I also contributed largely to the second process of ideas stage, originally suggesting the idea of augmented reality from one of my own past experiences. Within the design process I was heavily involved in transforming the wire frames into realised pieces, which were then further developed into our final piece. I utilised the elements given from other team members such as the arrows and map illustrations to place the artboards together, which I then placed into a mock-up setting made by Hannah and rendered the final video.

During the presentation itself I felt as if I was trying to push my group in being vocal to our audience and gain a real link of engagement with them to get them on board with the idea, although once we had begun the team became more active.

Overall I believe as a team we worked well, and the process has enabled me to see what working in a team is like when you are in different locations and the way that can be tackled through the use of new platforms such as google slides.