M3 – Week 12: Packaging up for Submission

In my last blog, I focused on my experience studying module three, ‘Co-Creative Design and Development Practice,’ from the team development perspective. On this blog – the last entry for this module –, I’m providing feedback regarding the module content using specific examples where I consider different study materials could have been more beneficial forContinue

M3 – Week 11: Adjourning

When planning for the content of this blog entry, I started looking for information about Tuckman’s adjourning stage of team development. I quickly learned this was an added stage in 1977 by Bruce Tuckman in collaboration with Mary Ann Jensen, after several years of gathering data from various studies conducted on group development. The adjourningContinue

M3 – Week 10: Industry Insight 2

I usually structure my blogs by touching on the weekly content first and then expanding on my individual contribution to the teamwork and the next steps. However, in this week’s blog, I’m purely reflecting on my experience crafting and editing the three-minute Beautrix’s demo video for the final assignment. Therefore, this blog covers the stepsContinue

M3 – Week 9: Industry Insight 1

Learning how to work in teams is an essential skill to have. Regardless of the role one has in the workplace, companies are increasingly demanding for employees to clearly communicate their ideas, be open to collaboration -especially in cross-functional teams- delegate tasks and give honest feedback. Therefore, working in teams as part of a universityContinue

M3 – Week 8: Intellectual Property

This week’s main subject in Canvas content is intellectual property. However, I mainly concentrated on learning how to use Figma. Additionally, our team loses a member. Therefore, this week Ideas-R-Us needs to be completely hands-on developing the prototype to stay on track and deliver the assignments on time. It might be the case that sinceContinue

M3 – Week 7: Performing

During the fourth stage of team development, the group becomes more confident, collaborative, motivated, and self-sufficient. Teams will reach higher levels of productivity and innovation in this stage. Jenna Sedmak – April 24, 2020 There’s no way Ideas-R-Us is at the performing stage of team development. We’re still a group of individuals concentrating on finishingContinue

M3 – Week 6: Practice Pitch Week

We’re now halfway through GDD730 Co-Creative Design and Development Practice module. This week, the faculty organized two presentation sessions for teams to explain their projects with a pitch deck presentation before a judge panel and professors. The judging board, conformed by industry specialists, was kind enough to carefully listen through our crazy ideas and provideContinue

M3 – Week 5: Norming

As the work and the module progresses, I’m starting to feel better. I’m feeling more productive, and that’s also helping me stay on top of the weekly blogs. I also believe two main factors might have helped with me feeling a bit more energetic. Firstly, pairing with Viktoriia for the pitch deck was a greatContinue

M3 – Week 4: Pitching

This week we were set to prepare our pitch deck presentation. As the lead designer of the team, I created the slide’s design. In addition, I took care of other smaller projects, such as organizing our persona into a digestible PDF and sketching some ideas for the homepage of our website. I also created ourContinue

M3 – Week 3: Storming

I wish I could start this blog on a positive note, but unfortunately, that will not be the case. So far, this has been a rough module and an especially challenging week. I’ve found myself doubting tremendously about my writing skills, mainly due to the low score obtained last module in my blog. I workedContinue