Pdp B2.1.r1 charlotte

Personal Development Plan by: Charlotte van der Sommen S109229 - 0743683 coach: Iris Douma semester: B2.1

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Index My Vision on Design

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My Identity as a Designer

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Past comments on me as a designer

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My Vision on another Design

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Where am I standing right now

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My Learning acitivities for this semester

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How am I going to develop

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Short semester Planning

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My Vision on Design Designing is giving shape and sense to the world. Everything that is created with any thought of changing something is design in my eyes.

Designs should improve your state of living and inspire you to change your life in order to make you more happy and a self-conscious person. A design should encourage you to live more aware of the world around you and to actively make choices for yourself.

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My Identity as a Designer It is not my wish to make something that speaks to everyone but I want to able to make a fitting something for everyone. Everyone is different due to cultures and personalities. My aim is to satisfy and surprise people with designs that fit to them and that solve their problems. I want to make people live happier, easier, completer and more aware with my designs. Perfection is a very important aspect while creating my designs. Perfection in actions, objects, everything. Perfection is a feeling, a detail, something that makes it different from other things. Perfections is a feeling of winning, a feeling of succeeding, a feeling of being and being yourself, a feeling of freedom and creativity. A feeling of release and optimal understanding.

Every individual person has his powers. We should put energy in finding those powers and using them instead of comparing to each other and trying to be the best. If you find your individual cocktail of powers, in your own way you will always be the best. If you could earn your money and satisfy your needs by using your powers, the world would

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look a lot nicer. I love the individuality of people, everyone deserves the chances to develop their strong sides.

Too many people care about what is expected from them instead of what they would like to do. This makes them unhappy, and creates envy, jealousy and most important results in a superficial society. Where no one feels perfect in what they do. I want to create products that inspire and help people to live the life they want to live at their individual/own way and that stimulate people to find there strong sides or help them develop their strong sides.

I want to create designs that make people feel confident about themselves. The world is a machine that will always go one. We as people have nothing so say about is. We are less than an ant. At the same time we are very complicated organisms and all different. We need to make our own parties in this life, because in any way you will never make a real difference and life is too short to worry about everything.

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My Vision on another Design I decided to give comments on a design company in order to characterize my vision.

I chose Apple because everyone knows Apple so I don’t have to explain anything about the company itself.

There are two ways I can look at Apple. One is that they make great products that are famous because of their quality which really appeals to me. On the other hand they do not really have a target-group, Apple makes products are for everyone. They convince people they need apple products instead of investigating the marked in order to find out what is needed which would be more my approach. I want to make products that fit to a certain target-group.

The other way I look at Apple is the financial and business way. Apple managed to ask ridiculous prices for their products and still being the leader in the market. This is very impressive and inspirational for people like me that are interested in the budgeting of products and the financial side of how to bring products on the market Overall I would never work for a company like Apple. In my eyes it is too big and too impersonal.

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Past comments on my as a Designer “There is clear enthusiasm and energy in your work” (Arne Hendriks) “I think you yourself should be much more critical towards your work and assess more critically why you consider certain goals to be reached.” (Arne Hendriks) “The overall vision on design and your identity as a designer needs to mature if you are serious about pursuing a career in design. You need to find more clear directions and be much more analytical towards your work.” (Arne Hendriks)

I plan on being a lot more critical to myself this semester than I used to. After my year in the board I grew a lot in personality which resulted in a much more realistic vision on myself. This makes it easier to be critical and analytical towards myself.

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“Vision is where I see at this moment the biggest challenge for you.”

(Arne Hendriks) “Your vision is still a bit ego-centred (more a vision on identity) For the future, try to extend it by developing a vision on the role of design towards innovation and societal change, and on how this is relevant to your role as a designer. “ (Jacques Terken)

During my year in the board of Lucid I developed my vision already very extensively. Of course I will develop my vision also during this semester. I will rewrite it at the end of the semester again.

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Where am I standing right now?

After two years of experiencing the Bachelor of Industrial Design in Eindhoven and a year of being part of the board of s.v.i.d. Lucid I grew a lot as a designer and as a person.

The main thing that changed is that I became a lot more mature. I can make well considered choices and I know

what I want and I created a vision on which really stands for me. In the graph below you can see how my competencies developed during the past two years at Industrial Design and how I what to develop them in this year.

Expected growth Old development

I&C

IT

UF&P

SCA

DBP

F&S

MT&C

DRP

SD&CL

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My learning activities for this semester Project: DPH81- Bugged 2.0 Assignments: Q1 - DG517 - Marking Business ID’s Q2 - DG121 - Exploratory sketching Academic development: Building Europe on transnational infrastructures

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For my extra-curricular activities I plan on being the treasurer of the Ludic which is the bar of s.v.i.d. Lucid. This will add to my development in the competency of Descriptive Mathematical Modelling. Next to becoming treasurer of the bar I plan on learning Adobe Premiere and Adobe After Effects in order to be able to create good looking movies of my prototypes.

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How am I going to develop In my past project I never made a planting and was not aware of my design process. For this project I plan on focus on the design process I go through and I’m going to make a planning with a goal at the end of every week in order to keep to the process. There are three competency on which I’m going to focus the most this semester. So I will go a little further into these.

Ideas & Concepts An expert in the competency area “Ideas and Concepts” knows exactly how to gain ideas about any topic so and expert had the self-knowledge in how he/she obtain ideas the best. An expert also knows a lot of techniques to gain ideas and knows exactly how to develop an idea to an concept.

Every semester I know a little better how it works for me to gain ideas. I have to work very systematic and if I have overview the ideas will come automatically. I know already several techniques in order to gain ideas but I’m still in

search for new ones. The process from ideas to a real concept is still a little vague for me.

In my project I will develop this competency area by going through a new brainstorm-process and by focusing on the idea development. In the assignment Exploratory sketching I’m going to learn how to come up with ideas and how to develop ideas by sketching.

Design & Business Processes An expert in the competency area “Design & Business Processes” knows a lot about different company structures and has knowledge about the procedure to start a company. An expert knows a lot about the business model canvas and has seen it being applied in several different cases and is able to create a case himself. An expert knows how to involve the market in the design and production process and knows how to bring products to the market.

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At this moment I know a little about the Business model canvas. In the assignment Making Business ID’s I will develop this competency area by learning the ins and outs of a company. I plan on aply the new information in my project.

Design & Research Processes An expert in the competency area “Design and Research Processes” knows exactly how to go through a design and research process. An expert knows many different ways to go through a design process and knows exactly how to apply the right process to the right case.

I didn’t do a lot in this competency area. I plan on doing a lot of research for my project and be aware of my process by making a clear planning. For my assignment Making Business ID’s I have to do a lot of research which gives me skills in how to find things. For my assignment exploratory sketching I will learn how to use a sketching as a tool to do research.

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Now in short the other competencies: Integrating Technology In the project description they ask for an final working prototype. I think I will have to use technology in order to make such a prototype. In that case I will develop the competency Integrating technology. Next to my project I want to learn movie editing skills.

User Focus & Perspective I will develop the competency area User Forcus and Perspective within my project by doing a user-test on my concept. I plan on using new techniques than I already used in user-tests.

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Social Cultural Awareness By doing research in a total new field I will develop this competency area within my project. During my assignment Making Business ID’s I will get to know the field of business proposition and markets and for my academicals development I will learn a lot about a subject I’m not familiar with.

Form & Senses By creating a nice final prototype for my project I and by learning how to sketch in the assignment Exploratory sketching I will develop this competency area.

Self-Directed & Continuous Learning After a year of being part of the board of Lucid I learned how to get myself to work. I’m going to see how that applies on my activities this semester.

Descriptive Mathematical Modelling Next to all my learning activities I plan on being the treasurer of the bar of Lucid this semester. This will help to develop my mathematical and modelling skills.

Teamwork & Communication In my two assignment and in my project I have to work in groups. Every group gives you a new experience and learns how best to deal with things in a group.

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Short semester Planning

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