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Unit 2: phone shop

Skill exercise: test image on gimp:



Investigation:

Identify the problem

the problem is that girls that are 12 to 14 don't have phones that are well adapted to what they like and need.

Research:

Basically, what a good phone should have for a 12 to 14 year old girl would be a qwerty keypad so that it is easy to text with, it should nice colors or nice phone covers, and it should have a good camera. it should also have some headphone plugs so that it is possible to listen to music. it should be solid and resit when someone drops it or it falls.

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[] Survey:

this is the survey. i asked 5 twelve year old girls and 5 thirteen/ fourteen year old girls.

Survey for 12 to 14 year old girls


 * 1) ** What colors do you like for phones? Do you want to have some type of design on it? **

Most common answer: Black, no designs Other common answers: purple, and sparkles


 * 1) ** What color/images would you want your phone cover to be? **

Most common answer: Yes, celebrity pictures Other common answers: simple colors like blue or black


 * 1) ** Do you like phones with big screens or small screens? **

Most common answer: Big screens


 * 1) ** Which types of phones do you like, touch screens, QWERTY keypads, number keypads, sliding, etc. **

Most common answer: Touch with QWERTY keypad, doesn't slide Other common answer: sliding with touch screen and qwerty keypad


 * 1) ** Do you like phones that are thick or very thin, or in between? **

Most common answer: Thick Other common answers: medium


 * 1) ** Do you like having a camera on your phone? **

Most common answer: Yes

Design Brief I will make a phone design that is made for girls that are 12 to 14 years old. i will use Gimp to make the phone design.

Design specifications
 * What should my final product have: **

Purple with sparkles ||  || Simple color like black or blue || Sliding touch screen with qwerty keypad || Medium thickness ||
 * Simple black color
 * Cover with celebrity pictures
 * A touch screen with a qwerty keypad
 * Thick thickness
 * A good quality camera ||
 * Big screen ||
 * Any 12 to 14 year old girl should like the design ||

Design test

To test if my design fits the design specifications, I will first check if it has a camera. I will make sure that it is touch screen and has a QWERTY keypad. I will ask a 12 to 14 year old girl if she likes the thickness of the phone and if the color of the phone is OK. Then I will ask some 12 to 14 year old girls what they think overall about the phone design.

Design on my specification tables, there are 2 specifications per box. one of them is written in big letters and the other one in small letters. the specifications written in big letters are the main aim, so the best thing that i could do to amke my phone good for 12 to 14 year old girls. the specifications written in small letters is the lesss prefered one for the girls that i surveyed, but a lot of them still liked it, so those specifictions aren't the main aim, but can still be done because a lot of the girls that i surveyed still liked it.

design 1:

Purple |||| yes || Simple color like black or blue || no || Sliding touch screen with qwerty keypad || yes || Medium thickness || no ||
 * specification |||| does it have it, yes or no ||
 * Simple black color
 * Cover with celebrity pictures
 * A touch screen with a qwerty keypad
 * Thick thickness
 * A good quality camera || yes ||
 * Big screen || yes ||
 * Any 12 to 14 year old girl should like the design ||  ||

design 2

Purple |||| yes || Simple color like black or blue || yes || Sliding touch screen with qwerty keypad || it has a QWERTY keypad, but not a touch screen || Medium thickness || yes ||
 * specification |||| does it have it, yes or no ||
 * Simple black color
 * Cover with celebrity pictures
 * A touch screen with a qwerty keypad
 * Thick thickness
 * A good quality camera || yes ||
 * Big screen || no ||
 * Any 12 to 14 year old girl should like the design ||  ||

design 3



Purple |||| yes || Simple color like black or blue || no || Sliding touch screen with qwerty keypad || yes || Medium thickness || yes ||
 * specification |||| does it have it, yes or no ||
 * Simple black color
 * Cover with celebrity pictures
 * A touch screen with a qwerty keypad
 * Thick thickness
 * A good quality camera || yes ||
 * Big screen || yes ||
 * Any 12 to 14 year old girl should like the design ||  ||

design 4



Purple |||| yes || Simple color like black or blue || no || Sliding touch screen with qwerty keypad || yes || Medium thickness || yes ||
 * specification |||| does it have it, yes or no ||
 * Simple black color
 * Cover with celebrity pictures
 * A touch screen with a qwerty keypad
 * Thick thickness
 * A good quality camera || yes ||
 * Big screen || yes ||
 * Any 12 to 14 year old girl should like the design ||  ||

to decide which design was the best and fitting the most to the design specifications, i used a tally system. all the yes answers in big counted for two points and all the yes answers in small letters counted for one point. for design 1, there were 8 tallies, for design 2 there were 7, for design 3 there were 9 and for design 4 there were 8. so i chose the design 3 to use because it had the most tallies.

so the design that i will do for my create stage is the **design 3**.

Create

what i changed from my original design was the color of the center button and where the charger and headphone plugs were. i changed that because it was harder o get the plugs on the bottom part of the phone because of the shape of the phone. it would also be easier to do it like that. the color of the phone also changed, but that isn't very important because all that mattered was that the phone was purple.



Evaluation

tests for the product:

there is a camera on the phone and a QWERTY keypad. it also has the required touch screen. i asked three 12 to 14 year old girls what they thought about my product, they all said that they liked it, and that the colors and thickness of the phone were fine. what they say they like about the phone is the color, and the fact that the keyboard has big keys so that it is easy to text. they also liked the fact tat there weren't too many buttons so it is less confusing and quicker to use.

design specifications:

Purple with sparkles |||| yes, i made the phone purple, but without sparkles || Simple color like black or blue || no, there wasn't any phone cover at all. || Sliding touch screen with qwerty keypad || yes, there was a QWERTY keypad and a touch screen || Medium thickness || yes, the phone was thick ||
 * specifications |||| does it have i yes or no ||
 * Simple black color
 * Cover with celebrity pictures
 * A touch screen with a qwerty keypad
 * Thick thickness
 * A good quality camera || yes, there was a good quality 20mp camera ||
 * Big screen || yes, the screen was big compared to other phones,. ||
 * Any 12 to 14 year old girl should like the design || yes, asked three 12 to 14 year old girls and they all said that they lioked it ||

Investigation stage: For the investigation stage, what I could have done better was to get some more information from different sources like the internet. In the survey, I could have asked more specific questions like the exact measurements that they wanted so that I could make something closer to what they would like. For the specifications, I could have been more specific on the exact sizes if I had done the survey better. The tests probably aren't that good and aren't the best thing to evaluate my creation, I think that there could have been a better way to test the product.

Design stage:

I could have made the design more imaginative and different from what already exists. Some of them looked alike, so I think that I could have made things that look different and aren't all the same type of thing. I don't think that I was thinking out of the box when I made my designs, so they weren't very original because they looked like things that already exist.

Create stage:

I think that I did quite a good job on the create stage. I finished it on time and was able to use the gimp tools quite well. I didn't have to change much from the original design, so I think that the design I chose was something that was realistic to make. I wrote down all of the changes I made and said why I changed them. overall, i think i did a good job on the create stage.

If i were to make this design again i would give it a better keyboard color that fits in better with the phone color. i would also make that camera on the side of the back of the phone so that it is less in the way when you are holding it. i also think that 12 to 14 year old girls would like it better if the phone was black with a celebrity phone cover because that was the main answer on the survey.

If i were to do the unit all over again, i would start by making a better survey that is more accurate. i would also make that my designs are good and original and contain all the information needed. i would try to follow the best i can the answers of my survey to make the design that is the most appropriate to 12 to 14 year old girls.