Call Me Brief - App Situation Description

You have just met someone and arranged to call/meet/facebook them. So this app will enable you to program your life so that on a specific hour/day when you have something important to do your phone will be your personal planner.

Firstly it will alert you that you had arranged to call/text/meet/facebook the person that you met recently, so when you are close to the time in which you told that certain someone that you would contact them then your phone will vibrate every two minutes so that you do not miss anything important that you had planned to do. A pop up message will appear to alert you to who you have to contact and what it is regarding. This is a simple way of reminding you of important things that you do not what to miss. Another features that this app will incorporate is the alarm feature, this is a major feature in this app and will alert the user every 20 minutes that they must not forget to complete the task that they agreed to do such as an important phone call etc. if you fail to complete the agreed task your alarm will continue to alert you every 20minutes until the task has been completed. The alarm feature has been timed so that 4hours after the time the task was meant to take place the alarm will stop and the app will take it upon itself to contact the party concerned and will send them a text message to alert them that you are busy and that you will contact them soon. Another feature that the app will have is a Bluetooth feature that will enable the phone to contact the party concerned without you having to dial the number or to even pick you the phone, the phone will bleep to alert you that the phone call has started.

If this matter has not been dealt with by the next morning the app will then contact the party concerned via facebook and phone call to alert that you have forgotten to call then and that you are deeply apologetic and that they should contact you. 

Sarah-Louise Reynolds 

Call Me Brief - App

Once I received this brief i instantly decided that I would create and App that would suit this brief to a "T", before I could start this brief I had to work out what i wanted to include in the App and what users would be looking the app to do.

I decided that i would ask my friends if they had this App what would they want it to do and how they would like it to work. So with this insight I started the planning process.

Sarah-Louise Reynolds

Call Me Brief

Call me! - txt me! - fb me! - tweet me!- email me!

People always have so much on their minds and remembering to call someone can become quite a challenge so a product needs to be designed that can be slid into everyone’s everyday life to eliminate forgotten contact arrangements and frustrating forgetfulness to call someone

Deliverables:

Description of situation (1/2 page) - wk10

Brief - wk 11 (1/2 page) extending the brief

Postcard from the begining  (Jpeg image 450px wide, not moore than 30k file size) - wk10

A3 sketchbook - wk13

Youtube video presentation - wk13

Dowel Rod and Stick!

After many hours of cutting the Stick & Dowel with a hand saw, my poor hands were so happy when i had to hand this assignment in as the blisters on my hand finally got to heal.

I found this Assignment a hard one to get my head around but once I did I think I created a good piece of work that looked professional. 

Sarah-Louise Reynolds

Dowel Rod and Stick Assignment 2

This assignment was one of the most tricky I have ever had to do. I firstly had to go out and find a stick that was within the measurements set in the brief. i then had to go to B&Q to buy a dowel rod. This task in itself was very hard because the Dowel Rod didn't fit in my car.

After many hours of scribbling on pages with possible ideas i finally came up with the idea of a "Tree" and I decided that I would Call it ReGenesis.

This Assignment had to be handed in on the 22nd Of March.

Sarah-Louise Reynolds

Dowel Rod and Stick Assignment

This assignment is designed to challenge you to design and make a “beautiful”, “interesting” artefact.

It is based around the idea that you can create a simple sculptural piece with a stick and a dowel rod.

The stick should be sized between 30mm to 45mm diameter and have length of between 300 and 450 mm.

The dowel should be between 3mm and 10mm diameter and have a length between 10mm and 3000mm

You should create a sculptural piece that uses both pieces as they intersect. You make cuts in either the stick or the dowel to allow intersection and to add “beauty and interest”

You can glue the components together if you wish. No screws or other fixings are allowed.

You should present a sketch book of ideas, a final design rendering, an orthographic drawing and the constructed final piece. The final piece should be well made, crafted and nicely finished. The final pieces will be offered for sale by auction with no reserve prices at the end of year degree show.

Challanges:

What way can you add “interest” to the components.

What is “beautiful”

You will need to draw and think about your solution. You will then need to “find” your stick. That will cause a random element to the design process. Perhaps the stick will cause a revision to the design. You will then need to make the piece. The making will involve cutting and drilling and assembling. What can possibly go wrong?

On the face of it this is a simple project – drill a hole in the stick and place the rod in the hole – project finished. But it is not that simple. Will the hole be at 90 degrees to the stick? Will there be a number of cuts in the stick made? How ambitious is the design? How capable are you when it comes to making? The design brief is simple but restricted. What level of design ambition will you settle for? How long will it take to design the object? Will you show any of your class mates? Will they come up with the same idea?

Power Blocks Handed In!

I finally handed in the Power Blocks on the 22nd of February , I can honestly say ive never been so happy to have finished a piece of work before. In class I got to see everyone elses ideas and some people are very creative and there was some very good designs that I had never thought of before.

Bring on the next Brief,

Sarah-Louise Reynolds