Making my way through all these ideas has been really hard. Can I make this or that? Is it just a pie in the sky thought? Maybe. But I narrowed it down to 3 concepts, an app, a frame of sorts way too full with meaning, and a lamp. I like lamps. Aside from the …
Author Archives: jemmakes
Caught in a research pit
I find myself caught in a whole lot of research. There’s the protocol of tangi, the history of the Ngāpuhi people, what is and isn’t ok in terms of tapu and noa…it goes on. So here, I’ll try and record some of the research I’ve gotten caught up in. Tangihana The first place I started …
Thinking about death
After reviewing the feedback on project 1, project 2 needs to be stronger in terms of the following: More legible commentary on my processShow more iterationsShow the refinement Given the word counts for the projects, this could be a challenge, but is something I need to refine. I’ll use this platform to keep track of …
Print WTF?
This graphic design project is testing. The process isn’t but the act of printing…I wish I were Mr Baskerville and I could stonemason my own plates. It would be faster than relying on the systems structures and services provided by the university. By way of an aside, there are more students expressing discontent with the …
Kill Your Darlings
So I love Graphic Design. I love more having the allowance to indulge in the process and practice. Of course, I’ve over thought the brief. Everything starts with notes…old school, with a pencil…and usually cat help. I’ve added too many constraints to the essential brief, but I feel I can justify what I have made …
UX Project 1 – Customer Journey Map
The Project Brief Explore how a potentially diverse user group uses a common experience, by creating at least one customer journey of an everyday publicly accessible experience: self-serve checkout, loading a Snapper and taking public transport, etc. You will need to have speak to people on this one. You may also consider creating empathy maps …
31 July
What a crazy way to discover the innermost thoughts and fears of our class. It seemed pretty much everyone did deep dive and revealed some fundamental emotional truths. It was uncomfortable and difficult to go through the process, but it was also revealing how simple it was for partners to really know something about those …
Ya gotta do what you’ve gotta do
A job was created for me. I know it sounds arrogant, but that’s how it played out…on a bus to a conference. I interviewed (for process), negotiated an appalling rate (adding 5k to their original offer), and started about a month later. I quit my freelance magazine job, said goodbye to some decent clients, and …
Decolonising Ads
Wahine with Apples. Edward Cole. 1930 First thoughts The first thing that struck me is how isolated the ‘whaine’ is from the rest of Edward Cole’s 1930 image. But then, the image seems to be 3 separate things, the landscape background, the Pania of the Reef-like female form, and the apples. Each of these elements …
17 July
Customer journeys. Christ…what an abstract project…will it be fun? I bloody hope so. I must admit to being a little confused about the range of stuff we are being taught. A 2-hour lecture where not every slide is covered is a bit scary…I mean this is university, not a Ted talk! There is so much …
Jeremiah Boniface 