Week 5 - Poster and Pitch Reflections

Change of Ideas:

A number of things have occurred this week in terms of the progress of the project. First of all, the team has decided based on last week’s feedback and analysis to go with the concept Guesstoric: an interactive guessing game for historical monuments. This idea is a combination of two concepts: Guesstoric and Guesstimate (found on the concept cards). It takes the monument guessing component from Guesstoric, and the blurry-to-clear image component from Guesstimate to create an educational and interactive guessing game.

The idea is to allow school students/other interested parties to learn more about the historical significance surrounding the monuments situated throughout cities all over the world. It will use images and text from Trove to create both an educational and fun experience for the user. Learning history should not be boring, and with the technology and information available at our fingertips now there can be a more interactive and engaging way to learn. This is what Guesstoric aims to achieve.

The Pitch and Poster:

Creating the poster and pitching the concept to the rest of the class was a great way to get a feel of pitching and communicating ideas to other people, and it forces us to really understand the product we are building, and why it is unique.

During our pitch, we went through how the system works, who it’s target audience is, why it is unique and what the benefits of the app are by walking through a storyboard/scenario. In hindsight, this should have been rehearsed more and cut down to only include the most important and attention-grabbing parts. The posters designed can be seen below:

Guesstoric Poster - designed by me (bigger image: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BzY5tywhuJqrVllWNEIyd3pNd3M/view?usp=sharing)

Infographic designed by Felipe (bigger image: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B1B_VmPtrUuFamhQM1lKUTZ1NW8/view?usp=sharing)

Overall I feel that the team has worked together reasonably well and we are making good progress with the project despite the last minute change of ideas. Some minor issues that arose during the making of the pitch and poster: I hadn’t realised that Felipe had already created a poster, and so this resulted in two different posters on the day. In the end, we used both posters which actually worked quite well - one poster was used to describe the concept and the other used as another visual aid to further communicate the benefits/features of the app. This redundancy however could have been avoided through better and more frequent communication within the team.

This coming week we plan to work on the concept document and plan how the concept will be implemented.