<<< For my previous post on the project, click here. Once we had received the photos, notes and recordings from our participants we got to work placing them into our designs. The information covered three situations: Taking the MTR (subway) in Hong Kong Getting lost and asking for directions in…

<<< For my previous post on the project, click here. Last week we decided that our design would be a scenario-driven retrieval system for people who are learning a language informally. However, I was struggling with how we could make the most out of seeing visual context. Given that I…

<<< For my previous post on the project, click here. Our next plan of action was to figure out how to organise the sections from my brainstorm last week. I thought about how the information would look, and how it could be structured in a digital system. Seeing as elements…

<<< For my previous post on the project, click here. In addition to other feedback last week, we were warned that we were beginning to make assumptions about language learners and their motivations to study. So, we decided to conduct some Directed Storytelling to help us uncover biases by asking…

<<< For my previous post on the project, click here. We were very interested in exploring the collective, person-to-person aspects of language learning as this was a largely missing from the learning methods last week. Situations hold a lot of rich visual information that is difficult to capture just with…

<<< For my previous post on the project, click here. After a break in the summer holidays my group met up online to discuss our thoughts on the project. Both Kate and Tatiana shared my concerns about the project’s breadth, so we made a research question: “Design a way to…

<<< For my previous post on the project, click here. Just before the summer break, everyone in the class did Crazy 8’s together to get us thinking. Although I was not entirely convinced by the ideas I had drawn out, they got me thinking about possible ways forward. A singular…

<<< For my previous post on the project, click here. Market research I mentioned in my last post that we needed to really focus on grounding our idea in the people that would benefit from it. We decided that doing some market research would be a good first step. We…

<<< For my previous post on the project, click here. Target audience At this point we had played around with certain directions for the project, but had not paid defining a target audience enough attention. We begun the project thinking we wanted to target those who travel abroad out of…