J10

Links to my A05 teammates' blogs:

http://oliviajonesdsgn200.tumblr.com/

http://laurennkelley.blogspot.com/

http://kbranscum-dsgn200.blogspot.com/

Link to J08 and J09

Our team worked on creating a proposal to bring Coleman brand wallpaper that both reflects/replicates nature and that can also detect carbon monoxide. The most recent decision made were regarding who would work on developing which parts of the presentation. The team worked very well both organizationally and personally. As a group we did a good job because we all had different skills and talents which we brought to the project.

I personally fulfilled a few roles for this project. One of the main ones was identifying/finding the material that reacts to the presence of carbon monoxide. I also tried to help facilitate the conversation when we were working in the group setting to help make sure that work was being delegated properly and evenly across the group. When we were giving our presentation, I introduced and the project/product to try to break the ice and set the stage for my other group members because many of them were not overly comfortable speaking in front of a group. I feel that I could have done more to try to help my group members with the oral part of their presentations to both make them more comfortable and help with the material they were presenting.

J09

Lately our team has been working on developing our product/project as much as possible to have it prepared to present by the upcoming Monday (March 7) deadline. The decision has been made to pursue a Coleman line of indoor wall-paper, that reminds its users of the outdoors while they are forced to spend time indoors and also doubles as a carbon monoxide detector. The team has been working very well organizationally, each of us have different strengths and unique traits which we are bringing to the project. Thus far, in addition to the contributions noted in last week's post, I have tried to provide as many ideas as posible and help to facilitate and move our project forward during the in-class work sessions. Additionally, I did the research to find the material that detects and changes colors in the presence of carbon monoxide that we are using on our in our product. I have also typed the information regarding this aspect of our project and information regarding the client/user up for the power point presentation.

J08

Links to my A05 teammates' blogs:

http://oliviajonesdsgn200.tumblr.com/

http://laurennkelley.blogspot.com/

http://kbranscum-dsgn200.blogspot.com/

Although we do not currently have a lot to show for it, the state of the project as a whole for our group is good right now. We have been working on brainstorming the idea/product we want to bring in to the Coleman Home Goods line. Even though as of my writing this we have not decided on the actual concept we are going to work on, we have created and eliminated many good ideas, and come the next work session in class should be able to finally narrow it down and get the project moving along. We have decided to come back to class Monday with our thoughts on which/what object each of us thinks would be the best to work on. Out initial concept was for an indoor version of an outdoor grill, built onto a stove/oven. This idea, however, proved overly complicated and not very feasible which is why we are currently still in the ideation phase and do not know exactly what we are doing.

Everyone in our group has done a good job fulfilling multiple roles. Thus far in the project, I suggested a few of the ideas that our/were on our list for consideration, I have tried to help navigate and steer the conversation in a constructive direction, and have also done a (very) little sketching of some of our thoughts/concepts. I feel that I could try to help myself as well as the others in the group build on eachother's ideas more so that we are able to develop some of them further, but all-in-all I am happy with how we are progressing to date.

Some of our work so far: