My Design Process

Whenever I am given a design task, I go through the fallowing steps:

1. Browse the internet for related material or images of the content
2. Do rough sketches whenever and idea comes to me throughout the week
3. Show the design to friends that are in the design field
4. Show design to friends/ family that know nothing about design (to see if they get the idea)
5. Take a step back for a few hours/days
6. come back with fresh eyes and refine

Road Block!
-read award annuals looking for inspiration
- change my environment so I can look at the problem in a different way i.e take a shower, walk, ride the bus etc.

My Time With Media

During the past week, I was challenged to write down how many hours I spend on each different type of media. These are my results:
Facebook -------------------------------------- 3h
Text Message --------------------------------- 1h
Email ------------------------------------------ 1h
TV (Live) ------------------------------------- 3h
TV (Online) ---------------------------------- 5h
Movies ---------------------------------------- 8h
Music ------------------------------------------ 8h
Computer (Work) ---------------------------- 7h
Web (Browse) -------------------------------- 6.5h
Blogging (Writing & Reading) ------------ 1h
Twitter ----------------------------------------- 1h
Reading (Screen) ---------------------------- 1h
Reading (Paper) ----------------------------- 3h
Youtube --------------------------------------- 3h
Gaming --------------------------------------- 0h
Skype ----------------------------------------- 0h

   What surprised my most was how little time I spent on twitter even facebook etc. I felt as though I spent all of my time on these cites, which after I took tally of the amount of time I spent on these social media cites I found that I didn't actually spend that much time on them as I had thought. However, I check up on these cites regularly but in small increments. This tells me that Twitter and Facebook are an important piece of media because people will revisit the cites often. In addition, I found out that I spent a ridiculous amount of time watching movies or watching TV and which surprised me because I thought that I would spend a lot more time on the web browsing or doing work. What might have contributed to this was that that there were no classes this week and I worked an unusual amount of hours at my job.   I think that this graph shows how much I rely on media in my everyday life. Imagine what would happen if I didn't have media for a week, I would certainly spend much more time reading.