Gloria+Dzanjalimodzi+Unit+2

=**Unit 2**= = = =__**Task 1: Skills Exercise/Pre-Assessment**__=



=__Task 2: Investigation__=

The Problem

A new phone company has just started out in Lilongwe and they are having trouble with a phone design the phone company is aiming for girls between the ages of 13-23 the phone is to help the young people with organisation skills. Core Phone Systems already has the apps and technology worked out to create their new phones but they are having trouble coming up with a suitable and attractive phone design to suit the public but they don't know what teen-tween year old girls they have hired me to find out what type of phone teen and tween girls like then to design it. I will create a survey and give it to a variety of girls of different ages. As well as creating a survey and giving it to different people I will research the following:


 * Top phones in the world.
 * Top most durable phones
 * Top phone companies
 * Top phone companies with majority female customers
 * Handbag designs
 * Skinny jean designs
 * Where most people like to keep their phones
 * Girls favorite colors
 * Most popular phone motifs
 * Accessories
 * Peoples favorite phone sizes
 * Materials popularly used in phones
 * Whether people like cameras on the back only or with a mirror
 * If people like touch screen, keypad, touch screen and keypad, flip phones, slide phones
 * What shaped phones people like
 * Whether people like designs on the phone or with separate covers
 * Where the speakers are put
 * The weight of the phones
 * Strength

Core Phone systems wants me to design a new phone that can satisfy the needs of girls aged 13-23 by surveying the popularization among them.

Below is the survey I will be using to see what types of phones people like. After conducting my survey I will then create percentages of what people prefer on their phones.

__Phone Survey __ Name:

 Age:

 Current phone:
 * 1) 1. What do you like about your current phone?
 * 2) 2. What don’t you like about your current phone?
 * 3) 3. What improvements would you like to have on your phone? (because of its looks not apps)
 * 4) 4. Is there any phone you would like to replace your current phone with?
 * 5) 5. Do you prefer a big or small phone?
 * 6) 6. Do you prefer a heavy or lighter phone?
 * 7) 7. What is the width of your current phone?
 * 8) 8. What is the length of your current phone?
 * 9) 9. How much does your phone weigh?
 * 10) 10. Do you prefer phones that are 15 cm, above 15cm, below 15cm? Please specify.
 * 11) 11. What colour would you prefer your phone to be?
 * 12) 12. What features you would like to have on your phone?
 * 13) <span style="font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">13. Just to be imaginative if you were to have any shaped phone what shape would you like?
 * 14) <span style="font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">14. Is your current phone comfortable to hold?


 * **Name** || **Age** || **Current Phone** ||
 * Gloria || 13 || Samsung Corby 2 ||
 * Mayamiko || 13 || Nokia C3 ||
 * Talumba || 21 ||  ||
 * Saniah || 13 || Samsung ||
 * Kshema || 13 || N/A ||
 * Shin-Young || 12 || iPhone 4s ||
 * Angella || 12 || Blackberry ||
 * Maria || 17 || Nokia ||
 * Faith || 23 || Blackberry ||
 * Mtendere || 17 || Nokia Asha 200 ||
 * Mtendere || 17 || Nokia Asha 200 ||

=__**Task 3: Design Stage**__=

Above is my Design 1 and this is also the design that I have chosen to produce my product from. I like the design because it seems fresh and new to me theses are the features I have put on my design and reasons why:

The main screen and keypad rotate together but the main screen is always on top you can push the keypad to the side or press the open keypad button which unslides the keypad automatically as long as you are not blocking the keypads way of moving once it fastens at the bottom of the main screen you can then use it to type, the keypad also has five other buttons on the bottom with functions: Numbers, Caps Lock (It tells you on the screen), Small case letters, Characters and the auto correct on and off button. The keypad is a QWERTY keypad with the letters only and the space bar which is why I put in the numbers button so you can then have only numbers. I chose this phone to create because it seemed cute to me and I was designing this phone for girls aged 13-23 and I am in the same age range and I thought this phone suitable and interesting.
 * Separate screens a touch screen keypad and a main screen the the main screen overlaps the keypad screen



= = = = =**__Task 5: Evaluate__**=

=**Testing Process:**=

List all the features on my creation i.e. buttons, touchscreen, keypad, camera and anything else added on to the phone. I will go back to the different people I gave surveys out to and ask them if the phone is to their liking by creating another table/survey for them to fill out. By listing the different features on my phone and seeing if it is likable/appealing to the audience is a good way to know what good about it and whats not so good about it. The main reason I picked this phone to design is because it fitted me perfectly and after all I was designing the phone for girls my age and ten years older so we should GENERALLY be into the same things; I also thought that this phone was a cute phone to have.


 * **<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Feature + Details ** || **<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Yes I like it because… ** || **<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">No I don’t like it because… ** ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Touchscreen front and rotatable touchscreen QWERTY keypad placed at the back of the phone. || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">I like touch screen and it seems like an interesting phone to have. || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">It seems complicated to use because of the two different touchscreens and the rotating keypad. ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Front camera for taking self-pictures located on the main touchscreen at the top left corner. This camera only takes pictures of what is facing it which means you or whatever your taking a picture of has to be facing your camera for you to take a picture of it but if you are ever in that situation you can just use the other camera located at the back. || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">I can take pictures of myself with and I no longer have to use a mirror to make sure I look okay it saves time and there is less hassle. || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> There are two cameras what if you don’t know which one is which what if it gets too confusing for me and I end up messing up the phone and how do you change different cameras if you want to use the front or the back. ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Back camera for taking pictures of what is in front of you this is located at the back of the touchscreen keypad. || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">I can take pictures of what is in front of me. || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">It is not a joint in one camera with back as well as front viewing. ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Touchscreen keypad with different function keys such as the caps lock button, symbols button, numbers button, auto correct on and off button. || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">I can alter the keypad with different types of character types like lower case, upper case, symbols and signs, auto correct and others. || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">I have to keep on switching buttons to get different characters it might get tiring and confusing to use with all these different buttons for different characters and numbers and symbols as well. ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;"> A single Bluetooth button on the main screen so you don’t have to go to settings to switch on or off your Bluetooth. The Bluetooth button glows when your Bluetooth is on but only when your phone is unlocked to ensure to ensure your safety. When the Bluetooth button <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">doesn't <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;"> glow on your screen it either means that your phone is locked or your Bluetooth is off but only when your phone is unlocked. || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> Now I don’t have to go through the hassle of having to go to settings or the Bluetooth application to switch on my Bluetooth instead I already have a built in button on my phone that even indicates whether my Bluetooth is on or off. || <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Its glowing its not glowing then its glowing may be way to confusing to understand. ||

As presented in the table above I have evaluated my product myself because I was making the product for people like myself so I thought who better to do the survey and evaluate the product than myself.

=**__The Problem__**=

A new phone company has just started out in Lilongwe and they are having trouble with a phone design the phone company is aiming for girls between the ages of 13-23 the phone is to help the young people with organisation skills. Core Phone Systems already has the apps and technology worked out to create their new phones but they are having trouble coming up with a suitable and attractive phone design to suit the public but they don't know what teen-tween year old girls they have hired me to find out what type of phone teen and tween girls like then to design it. I will create a survey and give it to a variety of girls of different ages. As well as creating a survey and giving it to different people.

As you can see I listed each main feature on my phone and given reasons why and why not to like them. As in my product specification I wanted my phone to have the different aspects that the phones I surveyed from the different people in the investigation had.