Individual Research

On Friday we had decided to nail our individual tasks ready for Monday morning and the beginning of the discovery period. Clearly this project has research and understanding at it's core as there are a variety of questions both for Alex to answer (more on that later) and for us to explore. We picked a task each and commenced creating targeted A3 research boards.

Day 1 - Research:

Edwin: Placement overview. Assuming the feedback tool will inhabit the student designers site we would be looking at colour schemes, button and link styles, fonts, images, graphic icons and their implementation. e.g. Social network icons size and positioning and treatment, navigation placement, essential page ornamentation (what has to stay, what can we remove?)

Ondrej: Industry competitors. What is everyone else doing? Deviant Art, Flickr, Behance, Forrst etc. Opinion on how successful these methods are, what is most common and how it could be improved.

Andy: General feedback forms. Unrelated sites that deliver feedback options. Reddit/Digg, Newspapers (comments),  Online stores, forums etc. Opinion on how successful these methods are, what is most common and how it could be improved.

Clarke: Market friendly web sites. What attracts and retains students/young people. Colours fonts, features and interface. Opinions on what differentiates successes/failings.

Stewart: Interface styles, buttons, icons, forms etc. Graphic styles, common themes, default options. Concentrate on size, placement colour and any "call to action" that encourages users to take part and voice an opinion/vote etc.