Reflective Writing Project Process (Organizing Persona) It was in the middle of November I was trying to get adjusted to university life as a first year undergraduate. I had a group presentation to submit; however I didn’t. get to know the students well in my group yet. We had some problems in meeting properly to discuss the subject of the area for our presentation. I also found my group members not well organized. I myself tried hard and spent quite a bit of time preparing myself for this presentation but not rest of the group members behaved the same way as I did. I wanted to get a good mark from this presentation and I could only manage to gather rest of the group members two days before the submission date. I decided to assign them different tasks, like every person had to describe their own area, so they could not have an excuse not being able to contribute to our project. On the day of our presentation, we combined our slides together in the morning. During our presentation I tried my best to concentrate and to be calm when it was my turn. I described my subject entirely, but couldn’t stop worrying. Since our grades would depend on the group performance. In the end, we managed to get a good mark. Although, I suffered from unnecessary stress. I learned a lesson of how keep a group organized on a shared project. Enterprise & Marketing (Building Persona) If I need to be honest, the building persona, which is the space that I need to show my work and images by myself, is one of my weaknesses. For example; group work of the presentation in a way makes me feel much more confident. How? It helps me to think that I am not going to stand only by myself in front of the crowd and talk through. I feel uncomfortable to address to so many people, however, I am aware of that in real life we need to represent our ideas in front of people to sell our designs. This is my job so I thought; I need to get rid of this little bit shyness, if I want to be an experienced architect in future, who works hard and makes something original. I consider myself sharing the same stress and problem as rest of the class, and that motivated me to achieve. All these group presentations and the practices we experiences will prepare me well equipped for the future designs. Skills & Knowledge (Learning Persona) At one point you need to take some risks while doing your project. I had to submit a project but I needed to decide on my final design idea because I made lot of sketches to find out the best one. I was stuck.
Other projects need to be developed so I decided to work on them more. I already made too many sketches. The only thing that I needed to do was to decide. After few days later, I thought and decided what I really wanted to do. At first, I thought that it would be a good and efficient design but later on I changed my mind. This might be because my ideas didn’t turn up efficient and proper, so I change it. I knew that I had only 1 week left for my final submission. I needed and I decided to take a risk and have another design idea, which required being in different material and had different purpose. I was not sure about which material should be used. I took the risk and made the decision. I am going to design a world inside of park, which made of plastic bottles. Research in a different way and bring new aspects. Did something for the world, for the awareness of pollution. I learned that, not every time your first choice is the best one. If you have ability to improve yourself you can create better than your first idea. Time has no importance. Nothing stops new creations. Values & Vision (Guiding Persona) Everybody has different weaknesses. I think I need to develop myself more about the guiding persona. I believe in a way that it can be developed in time. One needs to anticipate the customer’s need and through experiences provide more services. Having experienced means that; you are able to teach or direct one company. For my universities project same things are valid. I had to design an object a table for my project and I believe that I had to think everything the customers would require. Since they are going to buy it and I wanted to make them happy with my confortable and ergonomic design. The basic point of a good design could be thinking about how they are going to use it. I designed an information desk for Vodafone Company and I will be representing in a week. This knowledge is essential to me because one day I could be a successful designer with good values and visions. Since every personas are connected with each other, one has to take many risks to see the outcomes,. I think that I am going to learn and developed myself in this way with the help of many practices.