Fall Quarter Schedule

My schedule plan for this quarter. I REALLY HOPE that I can follow them correctly. 

Wish me good luck for this quarter. ::crossing my fingers::

Peer Notes Week 2

Feedback from Lauren Watkins

Senior Project:

-Need to fix my app icon. Redesign the leaf's look. Trying to combine with GPS locator and leaf. 

-Two different way look from app icon and menu icon. Pick one of these styles.

-Use two colors in the icon. (light green and dark green)

-Maybe to change the activity icons because feel little strange.

Northwest Network:

-Like the monster shadow on the floor. Trying to create specific with it

-Like this shirt and need more information on the back.

Borraccihi's Bakery:

-Need to test the logo on the package.

Baskin 31 Ribbon

-Need to improve them

Zyliss

-Need to order the knife case and try the border.

-Need to change the website splash.

-Need to change website navigator bar because too much of bar.

-Maybe use few color on knife background for website.

-Change a bit the color on the logo.

Doppelganger

Chris Plancic

Senior Portfolio

April 11, 2014

Thomas (Tom) Lyon

Graphic Arts and Web Designer

Personal Portfolio: http://lyongraphicdesign.com/

Tom Lyon is a freelance designer at his own home business in West Seattle. He works with few of his clients in different states such as Washington, California, Florida, Massachusetts, Maryland and Distinct Columbia. He does most of graphic arts than web design. Why do I want to doppelganger him? I realized that I would choose him to be my role because he is really independent and likes to meet new people who major in the different subjects. He is a very people person. He likes to design for the client’s needs such as improve the company branding, letterhead stationary, and webpage layout. Since he works with many clients, he does his best to advertise about himself as a freelance graphic designer as passing the business cards, sharing his portfolio website, meeting new people, and participating any workshops and meetings. He analyzed that he likes to do on his own with few members and sometime with big group of member. I want to be like him because I do not like to work in a big design company because I may have hard time to connect with all designers. The small company may be easy for me to connect with several designers. For example, I need some time to listen what the designer’s thought, concepts, and discussion so I can feel more participated with them. I need a time to familiar all designers’ background. It happened to me in my internship between last summer to fall quarter. I was with him and two designers in the restaurant along with interpreters. We had good discussion with our ideas and easy to communicate each other.

On other hands, I would like to be a freelancer or work with any small business for any people and any jobs that need to new designs because I do like to help them to remove the old design or helping with other designers. Also, I do like to show my design skills, styles, and looks in my personal portfolio website. It may make the clients like to contact me to help them with these designs.

That is why I want people notice me I love to assist in making better design.

Portfolio Website link

Here's my portfolio website.

Link:
Chris Plancic's Portfolio Website

My rough schedule for the rest of the quarter. I just predicted the schedule. I hope I can following these schedule.

Unit 10: How People Decide?

There’re twenty-four flavors jams on the table. The testers tasted different of them, but they have hard time to decide which one of them will be bought. The testers only can remember three or four flavors a time. They may go back to start to taste them again if they like one of them better.

Some people have hard time to make decide whatever he or she wants or not. For example, the worker wants to look for better job to have good salary hourly, but the worker like the old job because work is good place to live and make friends with these workers. So, the workers sometimes follow their logical or their guts to make their decision.

The football referees have to make decision after the player touches the touchdown area. If they have different view about touchdown, the referees gathered up and discuss to make the decision. It is easy to have more than one referee because it is hard for one referee to make decision if it is touchdown or not.

It happened to me before. I had no idea what topic to be fit my senior thesis. I scribble the list of different topic that I interested in to learn about it.  When I had meet with Senior Thesis instructor, we discuss more deeply about these topics. He gave me more picture what is the better for my thesis.  That’s why it is better to have two or three people to help the person to make decision easily.

Unit 9: People Make Mistakes

In the world, people will always make mistakes on any products, their behaviors, and anything happens. There is no "perfect". We will learn from our mistakes. For the software on the computer, any softwares guarantees have some errors that the developer design the system. If the developer want to have no mistake/error in the system, it needs to be checked three or five times through the system. But, they will never fully succeed.

When the user is stressed and needs to check something on the Internet, he or she will not follow the steps to find the information he or she is searching. The person will likely make mistakes when ordering an item. He or she needs to relax for a moment and check the Internet then the process will be fine. For example, I was stressed with lots of homework and projects that were due a few days later. I feel the need to hurry and finish these projects. When it dues, I will sit down in the classroom and think something funny. I realized I forget one thing at home. That's why when stressed I will forgot things easily.

People of different generations have different error strategies. Some elders follow their old traditions and have not have tried the new modern technology. They  feel behind with the new technology and they will make some errors. They will feel frustrated if they do not know new technology. For example, the woman in her sixties, had an old cellphone, she was not fully aware about new mobile phone. She will struggle with a new phone. She will make some mistakes before she feels comfortable using the new phone. 

Unit 8: How People Feel

Facial expressions are important to tell what people are feeling. It represents how people are feeling after their result from a specific events, actions, or food. It may exhibited joy, sadness, contempt, fear, disgust, surprise, and anger. In public, people can read your facial expression after your result on whatever you see. For example, when I lectured in front of the classroom, I noticed more than two students and the instructor making facial expression that they were obviously tiring to understand what I was saying about my project.

A facial expression is important to present what you are feeling. But, it is very sad for people who have had Botox cosmetic product. The Botox is used to reduce the facial wrinkles and thus treated people cannot express their emotions because the muscle cannot move after the Botox injected. When taking Botox, people thought it was their solution to their wrinkles, but they need to think about their facial expression. They might cannot show their laugh or anger at someone or something. Also, the Botox inject might destroy your face muscles for good.

Some people have no patience in waiting for something to arrive or come. For example, at the baggage claim in the airport, I may not patient while waiting for my suitcase to arrive because I am in a big hurry to get back to my college. I did not want to be waiting for a long time in the airport.  Well, it depends with people’s feeling.

It is fact that the students, employees, and I feel so stressful from our projects and homework that need be done. We need to relax to distress. After work and class hours, they used their iPhone or mobile to hear songs to relax their mind and body. For myself, I watch music videos for relaxation. Of course, our mind needs a rest because the mind is too busy to be functioning all day.

Amygdala vs Thalamus - Amygdala is associated with the sense of smell. Thalamus is part of relaying sensory.

“Welcoming Warmth” - a mix of fig, jasmine and freesia.

Nucleus Accubens – the part of the brain that is active when people experience pleasurable events.

Attention Restoration – assists the people to concentrate better after spending time in nature or looking at the senses of natures. 

Portfolio Day

I attended to Portfolio Day at Benaroya Hall. I collected the amazed business cards, resumes, and two gifts. They presented really amazed projects. I walked around third or forth times. I looked at their stuffs again.

Big mobile presented how order the videos games works. 

Organized and mounted the business cards on board, three resumes, and two gifts.

Senior Thesis Presentation

I have a Thursday evening class at the same time with Senior Thesis Presentation. I only stayed in my class until I got feedback from my teacher and dean. After that, I headed to Senior Thesis Presentation. I stayed until the end. It was interested listening students' thesis. I am almost understanding the point about senior thesis and project. I wished I could make the picture more specific. 

Stepfanie Lukito's thesis named "Using Technology to Maximum Children." 

She explained how children learned and followed into adulthood in their parents' footsteps. She presented some examples how children learn words from kids' TV shows for example Dora the Adventure. She sometimes talked nervously and tried to explain in more specific details. 

Juri Seo's thesis named "Emotion in Interactive Design." She explained her two different theories about interactive design to these people. She presented some images from advertising ad on how people feel. But, for me, she didn't really present clearly her two different theories.

Jamie DuBois' thesis named "Help Shark!" He liked to reduce the advertising ad and presented it as an interactive media to save lots of papers. He presented some examples of posters and interactive media. He was very good explaining the difference between the poster and interactive media. He had well thought about ideas for his thesis.

Helen He's thesis named "The 'New' Made in China". She was half nervous but she explained very well about the China's branding, identity system, and culture/traditional ways. Her theory about how other countries steals some of China’s traditional/cultures and redesigns them to look different from China's. I would like to know what her project looks like. 

Unit 7: People are Social Animals

One of the chapters seemed bit scary stating the high percent age of lies through email, paper and pen, instant message, telephone, and face-to-face meetings. Some people never assume other people may lie in email or paper and pen. They might think they are being honest. It is more than 92 percent of group tell the lie through the email.

It's true because sometimes people can be fooled after reading the email or paper. The writing can't tell the reader if it is absolutely a lie or not.

Another chapter talked about speakers' brain and listeners' brain sync up during communication. When the speaker speaks in front of an audience, he notices some of listeners talking with other listeners. It might does not mean they are ignoring the speaker. They are synced in their brain at the same time with talking with other listeners.

Jonah Lehrer (2010) explained the difference between Facebook and Twitter. Facebook is considered as your best friends because you check in it often everyday. Twitter is here to help you to connect with different people that you may never met before.

Laughing is the best social bonding with other people. It is easy to bond with others in different locations. For example, I joined with my close friend and her new crowd in the cafeteria. I happened to signed something funny, they were absolutely laughing so hard. They thought I was very hilarious and they liked my sense of humor. They wanted to see more of my sense of humor.

Dunbar’s number: Robin Dunbar studied different species of animals. He figured out if there was a relationship between brain size and the number of stable relationships in social groups. He used the formula for calculating the limit for different groups.

 Mirror Neurons:

Synchronous activity: It is action you take together with others where everyone is doing the same thing at the same time such as dancing, tai chi, yoga, singing, and chanting in time as a group.

Duchenne smile: Identified two different types of smiles.

My Thesis Proposal

My Thesis Proposal

For my senior thesis I was thinking about something I want to do for my senior project. My senior project would be simple workout app that users can do themselves at their house. They may have their time to look at workout app that has simply instructions without too much of words. Even thought, I read the fitness magazines in the grocery store or bookstores. I always avoid the reading the information to explain how to do with fitness or how it works. I tend to look at these images of fitness. It may waste the users’ time to read the information and cause they don’t do their fitness after reading the magazines because it possible makes their eyes tired. It is best way for them depend on the fitness movement images. It will save their lots time from reading the information. Also, whoever aren’t the members for any fitness area, they don’t want to pay the monthly fees and use their gas to drive there for fitness. They can do their own exercise at their house to have relaxed fitness.

I like to see most of people keep their motivation to do their fitness at home instead of lazy if they don’t have any errands to do. Most of people have lack of motivation because they think the exercise is too much of time and get bushed easily. Best way is have your fitness partner or friends to come together to have support each other.

http://workoutfitnessmotivation.com/

http://www.fitsugar.com/Ways-Motivate-Yourself-Go-Gym-13376196

http://www.menshealth.com/fitness/20-great-workout-motivation-strategies

http://www.bodybuilding.com/fun/topshal.htm

http://www.askmen.com/sports/bodybuilding_1000/1051_staying-motivated-to-work-out.html

http://www.self.com/fitness/2011/08/motivation-secrets-slideshow#slide=1

http://www.acefitness.org/acefit/fitness_programs_article.aspx?id=2927

http://www.webmd.com/fitness-exercise/features/exercise-motivation

http://www.wikihow.com/Motivate-Yourself-to-Work-Out

http://zenhabits.net/31-ways-to-motivate-yourself-to-exercise/

Competition Submission

I joined the Adobe Design Competition.

Unit 6: What Motivated People?

I read the beginning the chapter of Unit 7. It explained how to keep people motivated with coffee gift card to collect the stamp on each box to get complete for free coffee. The coffee shop wants to keep customers to keep motivated to earn the stamps. For example, I played the online game called Candy Crush Saga on the laptop, iPad, and in my iPhone. I keep myself motivated to get completed all of levels. I sometimes couldn't predict myself to complete the levels. It sometimes took me long to complete the levels in few days. I am still keep my motivated to play it. People keep their motivated and will become successful at last.

I do have dopamine loops on the Internet such as Twitter or Facebook, check the emails and texts, and check some information. I cannot ignore my social media because I am dangerously addicted to it. I sometimes like social media because it keeps me busy to check repeated. I keep pay my attention to my phone most of time because my iphone is important to me because of best social media due of internet, text, and social media apps such as Instagram, Twitter, and Facebook as always.

Project 3 Preliminary Proposal

View project statement: Baskin-Ribbons Ice Cream Statement

Schedule:

Week 8: Make the proposal for Project 3

Week 9: Concept and Art Direction

Week 10: Prelim Critics

Week 11: Final Critics

Thesis Ideas

1. Tattoo are parts of cultures, traditional or their purpose. 2. Fitness to show the easy ways to exercise. 3. Comic book, may get the apps for it. I don't sure if they will fit my thesis and project

Project 2 Refined Proposal

View project statement: Borracchini’s Bakery Statement

Schedule:

Week 3: Make the proposal for Project 2

Week 4: Researching

Week 5: Sketching and feedback

Week 6: Art direction to improve design

Week 7: Prelim Critics

Week 8: Final Critics

Unit 5 How People Focus Their Attention

Sometimes people like to pay attention on a few items of information at a time because they don't have time to read all the information.

The few details in the information may not be enough for people to understand. More or less information that is needed may depend on the subject matter.

People really cannot do multitasking because they only can control/focus on one task at a time, two or more tasks is difficult to do a good job. For example, an interpreter can only listen and interpret to me at the same time. But, an interpreter cannot voice what I sign at the same time the instructor is talking.

Hotlinked:

http://mentalhealth.about.com/cs/familyresources/l/bladd.htm

http://www.task.fm/undivided-attention

Unit 4: How People Think

The first page (homepage) has basic information rather than a full description that would overwhelm some people. The next page has a bit more information. A website should minimize the number of times people need to click to get detailed information. On the other hand, one of the websites has fewer loads meaning that people don't have to think or remember more than ten pages.

If you just read a sentence more than three times, your mind begins to wander.   People's minds that wander are not the same as daydreaming such as stray thoughts, fantasies, or stories you imagine. This sometimes happens to me when I am reading a book that I enjoy. I just start daydreaming. I didn't realize that I was still reading the book. I try again to focus on the book. Daydreaming while you are driving is dangerous because you are unaware of what is happening in your surroundings.  

"When you're stuck, go to sleep"

When you are struggling with your project or homework for a long time, take a nap or go to bed. Your mind will be refreshed and then finish your project or homework. People thought that they needed to stay up late, but your mind will be worse because of all the day activities the mind has done. The mind needs a rest for a few hours while you sleep.

Goal-gradient effect - people are more motivated to complete a task the closer they get to the end goal.

Operant conditioning – If you want a certain behavior or reaction, then reward it when it occurs. The reward can be continuous or random.

Dopamine- created in various parts of the brain and is critical in all sorts of brain function: including moving, thinking, sleeping and motivation.