David+Hiwa Unit+2

This is my unit 2 page Unit Title: Phone Design

Investigation Stage:
Situation: All the major phone companies in the world (apple, blackberry, Samsung, HTC, etc.) have all joined together to make one super brand, but they cannot agree on a design. They have asked me to look into which designs are better and that would be popular for 10-18 year old kids.

1. Which of these phones do you like best

Apple iPhone 5 Blackberry Bold 9900 Samsung Galaxy S3 HTC One X Nokia Asha 305

2. What type of layout would you like on a phone

Keypad with small screen Touchscreen and keypad Touchscreen Touchscreen with slide out keypad

3. What do you think is the biggest problem with phones today

Size (too big, too small) Shape (boring rectangular shape) Color (not much variety, boring colors) Durability (too weak) Other (please specify):

4. What color would you like best in a phone

Black Silver Blue Brown Red White Green

5. About how big would you like your phone to be

Less than 5 cm 5-9 cm 10-15 cm More than 15 cm

6. What shape do you think your phone should be

Rectangle Circle Triangle Diamond Pear Star

Design Brief:
Using the information that I collected from the survey I was able to find out what things that other people would want that would make the phone design a different shape and unique design that will appeal to 10-18 year olds.

Design Specifications:

 * ===What it needs=== || ===Reason=== ||
 * Color || To make the designs look nice ||
 * Annotation || To describe the phone features ||
 * Clarity || So that the person looking at the designs know what everything is ||
 * Showing front and back of phone || So that you can clearly get a better idea of what the final will look like ||

Design Stage:
I made 4 designs for this stage. These are the designs and the evaluations for them.

Design 2:



 * Color - It has a lot of color and it shows and says what the color on the phone will be like.
 * Annotation - Each part of the phone is annotated accurately.
 * Clarity - It is very clear about how everything is and works but the picture isn't clear.
 * Showing front and back view - It shows enough angles of the phone.

Design 3:



 * Color - It shows the phone colors accurately
 * Annotation - The picture is well annotated but there is nothing to annotate on the back.
 * Clarity - It is all clear enough
 * Showing front and back - It shows the front view clearly but it doesn't really show the back well enough

Design 4:



 * Color - It has explained the color scheme on the paper
 * Annotation - It is annotated in detail
 * Clarity - The annotation is a bit messy
 * Showing front and back - It shows the front well but barely shows the back.

Based on the assessments of the designs I think that the best design is the 2nd one because it is more imaginative, it passes all the tests well and it clearly shows good views of the phone unlike the other 2 which show obstructed views which I don't like as much.

Creation Stage:
This is my picture of my phone that I made using Gimp only.



I didn't change the picture from the design too much but I did add a camera to the back of the phone. I added this because in my design I forgot to include it and when I was making the picture in Gimp I remembered that I hadn't put a camera on the phone so I added it because it would make the phone look more realistic. Everything else was basically the same as my design.

These are the websites I used to get the pictures for my picture:

Tiajin Medical University, "Wave Surfing" accessed from: http://tmuic.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/wave-surfing-big-waves.jpg, accessed on: Nov 26 2012

Stencil Ease, "Stencils | Shapes | Diamond Shape Template Stencil", accessed from: http://www.stencilease.com/gif/CC0906.jpg, accessed on: Nov 26 2012

Faithful-lee Yours, accessed from: https://www.faithfulleeyours.com/store/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/DSCN2097.jpg, accessed on: Nov 27 2012

Wikimedia, accessed from: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d4/Straight_line.jpg, accessed on: Nov 27 2012

Math Salamanders, accessed from: http://www.math-salamanders.com/images/basic-geometric-shapes-equilateral-triangle-ns-bw.gif, accessed on: Nov 27 2012

Photography Blogger, accessed from: http://www.photographyblogger.net/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/sunset6.jpg, accessed on: Dec 3 2012

Europosters.com, accessed from: http://static.europosters.cz/image/750/7819.jpg, accessed on: Dec 3 2012

GSM Arena, "BlackBerry Bold Touch 9900 pictures", accessed from: http://st2.gsmarena.com/vv/pics/blackberry/blackberry-bold-touch-9900-1.jpg, accessed on: Nov 27 2012

Evaluation Stage:
For my evaluation stage I made a table and a survey. Some of the things in my table are also in my survey so that I could get other people's opinions on my design.

This is my table

At this moment in time I have not put the other boxes because they are determined by the responses to the surveys.
 * **__What to include__** || **__Test__** || **__How my product did__** ||
 * Both sides of the phone are shown || Look at the picture || My picture shows both sides of the phone and also the slid in view ||
 * Clear lines ||^  || The lines are all clear ||
 * Background looks good || These tests are included in the survey || The background clashes with the picture too much ||
 * Good color scheme ||^  || Part of it is good but part of it isn't ||
 * Unique shape ||^  || The shape was very unique ||
 * Appealing ||^  || The picture did not make it very appealing ||

These are the questions I will ask in the survey (the actual survey has the picture of the phone for people to look at):

1. What do you think of the layout of the picture? 2. Is the color scheme good? 3. Is everything clear on the picture? 4. What do you think about the background? 5. What is good about the picture? 6. What is bad about the picture? 7. Would you call this design unique? 8. If you had had the chance, would you buy this phone based on the picture? 9. Additional Comments:

Most of the people who did my survey said that the design was good and the picture was clear. Everybody agreed that the phone's edges were too sharp. The more negative people (Emma and Gloria) said that the backgrounds and the color schemes were not that well planned out.

**My Performance in the unit:**

 * __Investigation Stage:__**

This stage was OK but I was a bit behind at the beginning. Making the survey wasn't that hard but creating the design specifications that would be good enough to check the quality of my product. I didn't work hard enough at this stage of the design cycle and I could've worked better.

__**Design Stage:**__

This stage was better because I had all my designs and everything ready. I just took a long time to get my things up and ready to evaluate. I had a better attitude with this stage because I had fun creating the designs and it was a good experience.

__**Create Stage**__

This stage was the easiest even though we had a lot to do with gimp. We had to learn how to do certain stuff on gimp while we were making the picture. This stage was good because I had a lot of fun making the picture from my design.