15/02/2005

A lot done in a little time

At last, we seem to have completed the planning for W's major project assignment. She has to produce both a dissertation and some kind of electronic media artefact to go with it. Ironically, the dissertation will probably be the easy (but boring) bit, while getting an idea that is both easy enough to complete and interesting enough to hold W's interest is much, much harder.

In the end, everything will be about icons. Personally, I think this is the obvious, but no less good, choice. By studying how to design icons, W should benefit for when she gets back to icon design full-time. She has all the design sense, but being aware of the issues in actual design processes should help her see yet more ideas.

Not that thrashing out the idea was easy. She wants my approval, but isn't happy with my rather basic and totally ill-informed ideas. In the end, the final plan is 95% W's idea and 5% my planning. Now all she has to do it put together the flow charts so that she can explain the idea and convince her tutors. No problem, just got to get on with it.

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