Midterm reflection:

I actually spent a lot of them preparing for midterm presentation. Because I received a lot of comments and questions from my thesis proposal, I wanted to clarify the confusions and reframe my goals a little bit.

When I started to gather all the progress I have made so far, like interview results, online research resources and so on, I was thinking and reflecting on my purposes of doing these things. How would they help me make design decision? How would my final product relate to them? Should I keep doing these things?… I realized that because I haven’t done a project like this before , I was so much uncertainty towards what directions that I should be taking or imagine what the final product would become. I was used to work on projects that are more design orientated, like mobile interfaces where there are structured patterns and clear purposes. But when it comes to an art project, things became so blurry and abstract. I didn’t know if I should just follow my instinct to design or I should value everyone else’s opinions.

I spent a lot of time thinking about if all my progress made sense and how it connected to my idea for this project. But later when I started to do daily activities to illustrate my feelings and turn them into p5 sketches, I actually felt a little more confident and clearer about the outcome of the project. Maybe because I’m a visual person or maybe because I’m actually working towards the final results through coding and designing.

In the upcoming weeks, I wanted to make more and think less about reasonings. I wanted to explore ideas through the visualization process.

 

Plan

week 1-2: Learn shader and build design elements for different emotion stages in P5.JS

week 3: Create a system of colors and design elements

week 4: Continue building prototypes

week 5: Begin user testing when I have 2-3 prototypes