Few Sketch Ideas

I talked to librarian Marilyn last week Thursday and she expressed that the 18-20+ is the way to go because there isn't enough info from them that the library knows about. Wherareas the seniors group, there is some information about them. Not to mention that there are community centres, etc. that have seniors groups and subgroups. So I am going to focus on the 18-20+ group (I personally think i will be more fun designing for them). Below are a couple of pages on ideas for that audience.



Anyways, I need to focus more on encouraging that audience group to get feedback, since my ideas above were not so strong on that area. Provide an incentive? The instructor says that such an providing an incentive is not as bad an idea as I think, because my goal is to find a way to get the audience to provide feedback. Free coffee if you fill out the survey, anyone?

Tech Survey

Youtube video of answering a computer survey via video. Perhaps boring to watch for the average viewer, but it brings possibilities to my ideas.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FCsjTLNxh4Y

Sketch Ideas for 18-20s

Assuming I take the route of designing a promotional campaign (like Nelson suggested in last week's presentation critique), here's some ideas:

Interactive Survey stand at Granville Island Public Market

So I was at the Public Market on Monday buying apples to make my mini apple pies, when this caught my eye:




It's a survey thing. Incentive: win a free basket of food. The interface and aesthetics is dry and ugly, but the placement is good. It's in a open space area nearby the food court. Quite noticeable and as such, I saw more people providing feedback there than I've ever seen at the VPL, which is zilch. I filled out the survey. No instructions that I can remember and it took me awhile to get used to the system. For example, I didn't know how to go back one step to correct a mistake and so, I had to figure that out on my own. Nonetheless, the placement is eye-catching.

Questions included things like: how often do you visit the island, how much do you intend to spend, how ofte do you visit the island, what is your annual income, age, gender, what do you do at the market, do you intend visit other places like the Net Loft after the market, do you come to the island because of the...(prices, variety, convienence, etc), what is your occupation, etc etc etc. And they said it was a 5 minute survey. Simple multiple choice.

Priorities of the Day & Responses from Presentation Critique

After getting critiques & feedback from the research presentation I gave out last week (Oct 2), here are the things I need to consider:

- developing a promotional campaign thing to entice the audience into providing more feedback to the library rather than simply improving the current feedback system the library has in place (because redoing their survey forms sounds like an InDesign layout job)

- if it is a system, don't get too bogged down with it. Remember the design of the product (whatever that will be)

- doing a post-it note thingy isn't so bad. Also, if aiming at 18-20 something audience, exploring applications such as Facebook, MySpace, etc is good because the audience frequent those areas a lot. Things like a banner ad on those sites.

I have been making notes in my sketchbook of the weekly tasks that I need to get done before the following class. It's just a to-do list. After talking with the instructor today, here's what I gotta to:

- talk to librarians of which audience group (senior pr 18-20s) that they need to hear from most...OR...decide which group would interest me most. Like which group I would like to learn most from, etc.

More Sketchy Ideas...for Seniors group

These are from last week Wednesday (Oct 1). More sketch ideas from my sketchbook. Possible feedback options for the senior audience.

sketches

Don't know if you can see the details well but these were my first sketches. Possible ideas of what the deliverable might look like.




Don't know if you can see the details well.