Since last week, I focused on summarising my affinity mapping post its, and grouped them into simple solutions of how I could address the main and most common issues. From changing my subject matter, my competitor reviews looked at apps that has some similarities or general goals to the app I was aiming to create. This task was a really intriguing part of my research as I identified where other apps went wrong and picker up aspect that I could do better for my apps purpose. Lastly I redid my personas, after learning how to do them, it became my second chance at doing them better which I believe I did and was much easier. For the proposition canvas, I was quite confused on what to do. However after talking to some people in my class and bouncing off ideas, I got the gist and was able to execute it.
As a result of redoing a lot of my project 4 research, I do feel like it has had a knock on effect on the rest of my work. This week I am really feeling the pressure as the deadline is only 3 weeks away. However I found the time to prioritise getting started with project 5, because if I didn’t start this week, it can have a bigger knock on effect and result in me stressing much more as the deadline looms.
I started off project 5 by creating a Miro board with some ideas and research, exploring different names for the app, colours and aesthetics.
This week I managed to write my essay for project 7. I really enjoyed writing the essay as I found how gamification is used for social media much more interesting as a topic than how businesses use social media. I struggled a bit with the bibliography and getting the citations write, however after I got the first few done, the others became a doddle.