Personea

It`s quite a different day today as we are asked to dress up as someone else. and describe this person we are dressing as to the group. I am dressing up as my flat mate who studies PHD at SOAS.
Then I had to tell the group what this person is like, what he does, whats his personality. So as other people had to to as well.

In the mean time, we took notes of other people`s person of choice. every detail. Then in the afternoon, we were divided into 4 groups. choose one person to design a product or service just for that person.

Our group has chosen An An as our target customer, we designed a virtual boyfriend/ virtual relationship for her as she showed some keen interests when we accidentally came across the topic of virtual relationship. Our design is a centralised object with hologram projection, which project the image of the "boyfriend" onto the environment which she lives in, in this case will be her house most likely.  The image will be chosen from her boyfriend in dream, and she will be able to do all the customise to fit her need.

This section is to drive us the designers out of ourselves and focus on a third person, the target group or person of our product. Every now and then, when we are designing a product we tent to put our own perspective into the design, and ignore what the target customers would really want out of the product. If this happens, then we are not designing for the others, we are designing for ourselves. We are practicing here to leave our opinion upon the things we are making, and replace it with the opinion of our client.

We observe what does the client want, and rather we like the idea or not. We as designers, our job is to design things for the others, there is more to it in interaction design, too. User centred design again is to focus on the user, how they think and how they use, very little about us.