Reflection - PSS

Finally! So Guida, me and Katy – we finally finished our models and our powerpoint. I gotta say this is probably one of the hardest project ever in terms of studio. Because we were paired up in 3, we have to show the effort of 3 people as well, and that’s why I’ve been seeing huge models from a lot of people. A sign that everybody is stepping up their game and trying to avoid failing studio, and also something which makes us have to pull something amazing out of the bag as well cause…well, we don’t want ours to look crap when compared together.

Groupwork is never easy, the fact that there’s 3 people working together to make something which we supposedly have to agree on is hard. 3 people , 3 different ideas, 3 different approaches in doing things, none of which are agreeable upon another. The hardest thing for us would be that we have to set aside our differences and work with whatever we got that we (and the tutors) think is good.

Meeting up as a group is kinda difficult, since Katy lives faraway from uni, so she can’t stay at uni til late (which I’m not sure whether it’s an acceptable excuse haha) but yeah…we’ve mainly been dividing works and sending them to each other by emails, with meeting up several times – which I don’t think is enough.

Money is always an issue as Industrial Design is a really pricey course to take – the MDF itself is not that pricey, but when you combine that with the need of several cans of primers and spray paint, it becomes extremely expensive.
As for the way we did things, of course there’s some things we think we should’ve done and things we think shouldn’t have been done. YEAH GUIDA, I’m talking to you! (w/ the inner portion plate size!) haha.

Problems we encountered other than organizing a group meet-up is that our PSS is related to so many subjects (parents, friends, food, physical activity, education) that sometimes we feel like we're losing focus. We tried eliminating this problem by consulting to tutors and from their feedback we then construct a way to retain our focus yet providing an effective way of fighting child obesity.

What I definitely learned from this is that sometimes we have to know every single components that revolves around the issue in order to actually design something that can effectively eliminate the issue. For example, in order to know how to effectively design something that can eliminate child obesity, we have to think how they would react within every step of the system, knowing whether a negative or positive reaction they would give if certain steps are taken etc.

Overall, as a group, I wouldn’t say we’re the best at coordination and teamwork, but we certainly gave it a try and I’m satisfied with the finished product, and I’m giving Guida credit for that since who knows she’s actually decent in doing models (haha) where as I’m completely clueless. Katy’s came up with some good concepts too.
But honestly, I’m just glad that it’s over and I finally can get my good night sleep. Again, good job team!