During this meeting with Sarah, I described to her about how stuck I have been lately with my thesis. I felt that Iāve been procrastinating working on it because I had too many thoughts and ideas about which way my project could go. I think I was also hung up over the feedback I had gotten for my proposal, and felt that I needed to think more deeply and theorize more.
Sarah encouraged me to not think too much about theory and meaning, and that by doing, I could find the meaning Iām trying to convey. We talked about my next steps, and what I should complete in the next week.
My next steps:
- Create a storyboard of how a user would use my project. I have a clear idea in my head on how this will work, but have yet to document it
- Build the hybrid digital-analog camera, use it, and list its affordances
- Prep your meeting with my mentor: share the project first, get feedback, then talk about your theorizing and see if it matches how my mentor interpreted it
- Create a production schedule
This really helped me to let go of the idea itself, and get started on actually building/making it. Knowing things can and will change made me feel better about moving forward with my project.