This week has been tough. We can’t lie, nervous breakdowns are happening as we try to pull everything together with less than a week to go. Oh, what we would do for another week. Or two. Or three, but anyways… We’ve been busy with our usual tasks – Nikhil with the wizardry, Lisanne with prototyping and other design-y things, Atossa and Orlando with research and testing and Shreya with our video – and we also had our Translate session which was super leuk.
The countdown that began at the beginning of the week. #Horror
First, a quick update on our tasks: Nikhil has been in the zone. So much so that we’re a bit afraid to talk to him in case we make him add a >> in his code when it should have been a ”. Or whatever. Go technical wizard, go. (Oh and side note: this is Nikhil in a past life. The man has skills).
User testing at the lab.
Atossa and Orlando have been multi-tasking like the pros that they are: working on the research poster (and paper) alongside testing, testing and more testing (in focus groups with questionnaires). They’re so close to getting it finished, with Lisanne helping with the design of the poster so that we can wow everyone during the final pitch. Bazinga. Oh, and they’ve been doing a bit of acting in the video, which Shreya has been handling all week. She’s been conceptualizing and storyboarding, and all of that jazz.
Shiny new logo.
Lisanne has been working from her design cave (a.ka. her tiny flat) on icons for the poster, a book (which is going to break down, well, everything from how our project works to our brand manual), the visuals and a bunch of other thingamabobs (which we are super excited about).
Trying out a few ideas suggested by Martijn and Dimitris: Placing seating in front of the screen.
Beyond all of our tasks, we had our Translate session on Wednesday with Martijn and Dimitris (who’ve we agreed are the cats pyjamas), along with the Observe team. Gijs is away in Italy but we’re trying not to miss him too much. #Sigh. It was an exciting session – with loads of new ideas coming from Martijn and Dimitrius – but we ultimately had to dismiss a lot of what was said (or put it in our “Next Steps” section of our paper). We are, however, going to think about how we could physically alter a space – very subtly, very slightly – to better encourage our users to really stop and see our screens. Stay tuned.
No one does selfies like these two. And apparently Orlando is a tad gangster. Or something.
Yes, this is a short post. But we’ve all got to get back down to business with the looming Wednesday deadline. So sorry, loyal followers, but there will be loads more next week! Kiss kiss.