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.