Category: Co-Creative Design Development Practice
Module Aim: To cultivate ways of collaborating and managing creative projects effectively in a distributed multidisciplinary context
Course Materials Adjourning, Team Seperation & Celebrating Success Adjourning (Tuckman 1977) is a chance to celebrate our success and reflect on our skills and knowledge learned. The team should find some time to reflect on skills learned and celebrate accomplishments. I spoke to the team about our achievements, how much I had enjoyed working together … Continue reading Week 13 – Adjourning, Crunch, Project Retrospective, New Skills, What is a Team & Team Rock-it Blast Off Again!
Pitch Polishing the Pitch By Week 12 the pitch was largely finalised, we discussed our pitch with our supervisor and completed some improvements. The main addition to our pitch deck was a revision of our branding by our UX team and data and comments from playtesting. During our previous sprints, I had been working on … Continue reading Week 12 – Packaging for Submission & Finalising the Pitch & Demo
Pitch Team Feedback "Replace image in slide with monstera leaf - too obviously fake which seems counterintuitive while talking about sustainability (also colour blocks on background should be on-brand)" (Petrillo 2021) "The 'discovering' slide needs less text (8 seconds not enough to read it alongside narration). Maybe also remove laptop photo slide?" (Petrillo 2021) Practice … Continue reading Weeks 10 & 11 – Pitch Feedback, and Creating the Demo
Note: Sprint Planning: Sprint 8 (our last sprint) was extended to a week and a half, rather than the usual weekly sprints to accommodate our project deadline. Course Materials: Adjourning Personal Branding & Real works Reflection Reflect and Discuss “[Personal branding is] the conscious and intentional effort to create and influence public perception of an … Continue reading Week 11 Part One – Personal Branding & SPRINT 8 ‘Juice and a Sparkling Cyanide’
Week 8 Sprint 5 Pitch Approach Roles Pitch Lead: Joanne Petrillo Team: Team, What’s Unique (USP), Why you?Joanne Petrillo: Intro, Customer Traction, Pain & Gain, Research, Competitor Analysis, Product & Demo (navigation focus)Sarah Masters: Product & Demo (art direction focus), Roadmap, Business Model, Investment/Why you/Future Features, Call to Action & End Statement Pitch Audience Our … Continue reading Weeks 8, 9 & 10 Part Two – Preparing the Pitch for Feedback and Demo planning
Course Materials Industry Insight 1 "You have all joined this MA for a multitude of reasons. One of your aspirations may be to carry out a new start-up venture, or perhaps you and your team are thinking of starting your own company together. For whatever reasons this may be, it is essential to consider the … Continue reading Week 10 Part One – Industry Insight 1 & 2, Crunching & Sprint 7 ‘3D Animation and Mixamo’
Team Rock-it are short on time, and there are now only two members left - it's time we Blast Off into the performing stage! Course Materials: Performing How will Team Rock-it blast off? Fail Fast! (Pimentel Medeiros 2016) Looking back, moving forwards and The Conflict Fast Model Co-Creative Design and Development has been eventful for … Continue reading Week 9 Part One – Performing & Sprint 6 ‘Feature Design’
Course Materials: Intellectual Property "The best way to familiarise yourself with IP law is to research contemporary case studies directly related to your own practice. Staying abreast of contemporary issues ensures you are not only aware of the laws but also the precedents set in your time. The breadth of issues covered by the mainstream … Continue reading Week 8 Part Two – Intellectual Property and Third Party Assets
Note: The team split in two during Week 8. We held a meeting with our supervisor, coordinated all the research and progress we've made so far and decided on a new direction through a rapid design sprint. Course Materials: Norming A personal reflection on a valuable experience for 'norming'. While thinking about while I was … Continue reading Week 8 Part One – Norming, New Direction & Sprint 5 ‘A rapid design sprint and pitch research’