Federico+Bizzaro+Unit+2

This is my work from Unit 2. Skills exercise 1:

This is the picture I made using the BMIS moto. References for it: About.com, “A baby green turtle in ocean”, available from: [], Accessed on 30th October 2012. Squidoo, “The true meaning of success”, available from: [], Accessed on 5th November 2012. Djibnet, “Paphos Sunset”, available from: [], Accessed on 5th November 2012. Newspaper.li, “World Cup”, available from: [], accessed on 5th November 2012. , “Cross at Sunset”, available from: [], accessed on 5th November 2012.

** Investigation: ** Situation: All the major phone companies have stopped looking at a young age selling group (10-18), they think that their phones are wasted and ruined by the youth of today so they have decided to look at mainly adult sellers. I will now need to create a phone that suits more the youth of today. These phones will have to be at the standard that these people want them so i will have to create a survey and find out the standards. The main ages will be between 10 and 18. These are some things that happen to $800 smart phones when not used improperly.

This is my survey Circle your answer 1. Which phones do you like best: Bigger ones Smaller ones 2. Do you like: Touch Screen Phones Phones with buttons Phones with both 3. What colors would you like your phone to be: Blue Black Red Grey White 4. Would you like to personalize its colour: Yes No 5. Would you like to change songs by having buttons on the phone: Yes No

6. Would you like it to be a: Rectangle Diamond Circular Triangular 7. Would you like a: Heavy but strong phone Light but weak phone 8. Would you like it to be water proof if possible: Yes No 9. What do you think the biggest problems with phones today are? _ __ 10. Would you like to have a removable back structure? Yes No I gave the survey to Tom, David, Hamzah, Connor and i filled one out myself, these were the answers to it. Design Brief  I am creating a phone design that would be adequate for the age of 10 to 18. In this design I will include the things that people of that age like in phones, for example both touch screen and with buttons. Overall my phone will fit into all the design specifications that i will include for people of that age. Design Specification These are the things that my design will need to have: Tests for my product  To test my product i will have to do a couple of things, these are what they are: to start off with i will have to give my design ideas to someone of the age of 10 - 18 and ask them if they like my design and what they think is good and what i could improve on it. Also i will ask people if they find my design easy to follow and simple to understand. To test if it is of a big size i could compare it to big phones of now a days for example the Samsung Galaxy SIII. To test if my phone is both touch screen and with buttons i could just make sure that it is written like that in my design. Also for music buttons, its shape and removable back cover i can just make sure it is written in my design. If people do not like my design then it means that i have not made it to fit the age group that i'm looking at and will need to change some things. ** Design Stage: ** These are the designs: Design 1: Big size, rectangular shape, Sizes: length 13cm, width 7cm, thickness 0.9cm, color blue, both touch and buttons. This is my first design, I thought that it was a good design but did not use it as my final one. This is so because I thought that it looked too much like all the modern day phones and was one that would stand out and want to be bought. This is what I got when I marked it against the design specifications: I have researched into the problem by giving a survey, I think that my design would be suitable for the age group I chose. It fits most of the facts I found on my survey, it is drawn out and I find it easy to understand. I think that its design is quite good but it could look better, everything is annotated, it is of a big size and has both touch screen and buttons. It’s not black, it does have music buttons, it is rectangular but it doesn’t have a removable cover. It met most of the design specifications but I did not find it my favorite. Design 2: Big size, semi-circle then rectangle then another semi-circle, Sizes: length 8cm, width 15cm, thickness 1cm, color black, both touch screen and with buttons.
 * Question 1 || Bigger Ones || Smaller Ones ||  ||   ||   ||
 * Number of Votes || 4 || 1 ||  ||   ||   ||
 * Question 2 || Touch Screen Phones || Phones with buttons || Phones with both ||  ||   ||
 * Number of Votes || 0 || 0 || 5 ||  ||   ||
 * Question 3 || Black || Red || Grey || White || Blue ||
 * Number of Votes || 3 || 1 || 0 || 0 || 1 ||
 * Question 4 || Yes || No ||  ||   ||   ||
 * Number of Votes || 4 || 1 ||  ||   ||   ||
 * Question 5 || Yes || No ||  ||   ||   ||
 * Number of Votes || 5 || 0 ||  ||   ||   ||
 * Question 6 || Rectangle || Diamond || Circle || Triangle ||  ||
 * Number of Votes || 2 || 1 || 1 || 1 ||  ||
 * Question 7 || Heavy but strong || Light but weak ||  ||   ||   ||
 * Number of Votes || 4 || 1 ||  ||   ||   ||
 * Question 8 |||||||||| What do you think the biggest problems with phones today are? ||
 * All the answers |||||||||| Slow software, small screens, glass screens, to weak and not user friendly. ||
 * Question 9 || Yes || No ||  ||   ||   ||
 * Number of votes || 5 || 0 ||  ||   ||   ||
 * I will need to have researched into the problem (survey etc.)
 * I will need to have a design that is suitable for the age that i chose
 * A design that fits the facts i found out on my survey
 * It will need to be well drawn out and be easy to understand
 * It will need to be a good design and look nice
 * I will need to have annotated everything
 * It must be easy to follow and simple to understand
 * Must be of big size
 * Must have touch screen and keypad
 * Must be black
 * Must have music buttons
 * Must be rectangular
 * Must have a removable back
 * Met all the design specifications

This was my second design, I thought that it was the best out of them all and used it as my final design. This is so because I thought that it was something different from what they are producing now a days and thing that it would be one that would stand out from the others. It did very well against the design specifications: I researched into this problem by creating a survey and giving it out to people so I could have a range of ideas on what I needed to include in my phone. I think that my design would be suitable for my age group, it fits almost all of the facts that I got from my survey. It is drawn out how the final version should be, it is simple to understand and I think that the design is the best of the ones I made. Everything is annotated, it is a big size, has both touch screen and buttons and is black. It will have music buttons on the touch screen when it is on so that it won’t change songs by accident and it has a removable cover. It has met all of my design specifications and will be my final design.

Design 3: Big size, diamond shaped but triangular when folded, Sizes: 18cm open height, 9cm folded height, 8cm width, 0.6cm open thickness, 1.2cm folded thickness, color red, both touch screen and buttons.



This is my third design, I thought that it was good but not my best one but I will not be using it as my final design. This is so because I thought that the corners would be too sharp and might be dangerous for little children. Also I thought that it would not really sell because flip up phones aren’t very popular at the moment. This is what it got against my design specifications: I did research into the problem by creating my survey, though I think that it is not completely suitable for my age group because it is not popular any more. It fits some facts of what I got from my survey but not all, it is properly drawn out and is simple to understand. I find it a good design but not better than my second one, everything is annotated and it is a big size. It has both touch screen and buttons, is not black and has song buttons but no removable cover. It didn’t completely meet all my design specifications so I will not use it as a final design.

Design 4: Medium size, rectangular but with foldable keyboard, Sizes: 6cm height, 10cm width, 0.8cm thickness without keyboard, with keyboard: 6cm height, 26cm width so to use on table, 1.3cm thickness.

This is my fourth and final design, I thought that it wasn’t the best one but it was quite good though it will not be my final choice. This is so because without the keyboard it would be just like any other touch screen phone and the keyboard is pretty big so would be hard to use if you are just walking on the street. This was what it got against the design specifications: I researched into the problem by making a survey, I think that without the keyboard it would suite my age group but the keyboard would not be useful for them as much as maybe adults. It fits some of the facts on my survey, I think that it is properly drawn out but I think that the folding method could be better drawn. Everything is annotated, without the keyboard it is a medium size, it does have both touch screen and buttons but only with the keyboard. It is green, has song buttons and has a removable cover. I think that is not my favorite design and I will not use it as my final.

I chose the second design as my final one because i thought that out of all of them it was the best and that it fit with all of my design specifications. Also because it would be a phone that I would personally like and it is something different from the others.

** CREATE (criteria D) ** This is my final product. These were the layers:

I didn't really change anything from my design, only the image background and the phone background basically.

These are the references for the picture i made: About.com, “A baby green turtle in ocean”, available from: [], Accessed on 30th October 2012. Squidoo, “The true meaning of success”, available from: [], Accessed on 5th November 2012. Djibnet, “Paphos Sunset”, available from: [], Accessed on 5th November 2012. Newspaper.li, “World Cup”, available from: [], accessed on 5th November 2012. , “Cross at Sunset”, available from: [], accessed on 5th November 2012. Gizmag, “RIM announces the BlackBerry Bold 9900, Bold 9300 and BlackBerry OS 7”, available from: [], accessed on 11th November 2012. HD Wallpapers, “Harbour Sunset”, available from: [], accessed on 11th November 2012. PSP download center, “PSP software”, available from: [], accessed 11th November 2012. Zollotech, "IPhone camera and video test", available from: [], accessed on 11th November 2012. ** Evaluation stage ** Tests for my product: To test my product i decided to show my design to David, Connor and Tom ans have them tell me what they liked, disliked, what they think i could improve on and if they liked my design overall. These were the answers from my first survey. To start off this is what tom said for the things he liked "I liked the shape, keypad design and the big screen". For the things that he disliked he said" i don't like the color, a bright color is more eye catching ". For things that i could improve he said " make the shape more interesting" and overall he said "Yes, i think that it would be a good phone design". This is what David said about the things that he liked "I like the fact that it has a front and back camera, i also like the it has a lot of buttons". This what he disliked about the product "I don't like that the buttons look too spread out" and this is what he thought i could improve "Make the design more unique". But overall he thought that it was OK. This was what Connor answered in the survey for what he liked "I like the keypad, it had a cool layout" and he didn't dislike anything. For what to improve he said "size", to make sure that it would fit nicely inside your pocket. But overall he thought that it was good and he would buy it. These were all the tests for my products. To check if it was big enough i compared it to a Samsung Galaxy SIII, my is 15cm by 8cm and the Samsung Galaxy SIII is 13cm by 7cm so it is about the same size and can be counted as a bi phone. I made sure that all the things that had to be included in my designs were there and i made sure that I had written everything on my design. My Product Compared Against the Design Specifications: I have researched into the problem by creating a survey, my design is suitable for my age and it fits the facts from my survey. It is quite well drawn and my design on paper is easy to understand. From the second survey i gave out it is thought of as a good design and it looks nice. Everything is annotated on my design, it is simple to follow and understand. It is a big size, it comes with a keyboard and touchscreen. It is black, has music buttons on the touch screen when its on and the back is removable. It fits all of my design specifications. My overall reflection: My think that overall in this unit I did good and i am aiming for high grades. For my investigation I followed all of the requirements on the wiki page though think i could have done better in some parts. For example in the design tests I think that there weren't many because a lot of my design specifications were ones that you could just write them down on the design to my sure. For my designs i think that i also did good and i am aiming to get a good grade. I followed all the requirements that were on the wiki and did four designs. All of my designs were annotated, I followed the design specifications that I made and tested using the test that i had made. For the create stage I think that I did best out of them all because I was able to create a good picture with all of the things from my design and made it by using GIMP. Improvements: I think that if I would have to do my project again the these are the things that I would improve: I would make all of my designs using a ruler and scaling. I would also have come up with a logo and slogan for my company and added it into the final picture. The final thing that I would change would be that in my investigation I would improve my tests and also my design specifications. What I would have done differently: In my use of the design cycle I think that I would have had to have at least five different for the design stage instead of only four different ones. I think that that would be useful because it would make you come up with a broader range of ideas and also because it would be a limit of designs but also a maximum basically because you wouldn't really need more that five. Also for the create I would have liked to use Photoshop instead of GIMP because I am better on it.

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