Hi Class:
Thank you to all of you who posted concepts and feedback. To those of you posted either requirement late, you were penalized 25%. To those of you who haven't posted at all: don't bother, it's too late. It troubles me that so many of you saw fit to abandon 10% of your final grade.
I've given feedback to all students who posted concepts - take a look. In some cases, the feedback is very brief, especially if you had already received substantial feedback from your colleague(s). Everyone should take a moment to read my feedback to David, Nolan, Julian S and Kristin, as it is widely applicable. Links that I sent individual students to are listed below.
On Designing for Flow, another GUI-centred concept with wide applicability
On Johannes Itten and The Art of Colour
On Georg Simmel, Fashion, and "the dialectical tension between the individual and society"
On the Narrative of Collecting via Benjamin and Baudrillard: "It is invariably oneself that one collects"
On OCAD instructor Todd Falkowsky's use of colour to create a self-generated narrative of place
At this time, you should be focussing your effort on a single prototype, for user testing in class next week by a group that (conveniently) represents a cross-section of your target audience.
I very much appreciated the degree to which many of you are targeting your efforts towards this audience, which is a difficult nut to crack. Young adults (and I include myself in this group) have complex needs - specifically, complex needs of creativity/self-actualization, to make reference to the Hierarchy of Needs page from Universal Principles of Design. As I noted to David, much of this complexity is a result of the conflicting demands of identity: a desire to relate to one's peers while maintaining individuality. This tension is especially pronounced in the art world (and in the extreme, the art academy).
On a lighter note, check out Homies for a sophisticated (and hilarious) synthesis of collectibility (another common theme in many of your propositions), narrative and personas.
See you next week.
ps: Are/were Homies popular in Toronto? In California, circa 2001, they were all the rage, selling in coin machines in every supermarket. I'm totally clueless when it comes to popular culture, so you'll have to fill me in.
pps. Some of you have missed the boat on the function of Comments and Labels. Learn them. Live them. Love them.
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