Major project idea generation (Wk 2)
Over the past 2 weeks I have been beginning to generate ideas for potential web applications primarily featuring the State Library of Queensland's available data sets:
1. Mining accidents visual timeline
Uses the QLD mining accident data to create a visual timeline of the events in the form of a hole being dug. Uses provided dates and incident descriptions.
2. Photo date guesser
Uses the photo Queensland data set and asks users to guess the date of a random photo as accurately as they can. Uses provided dates, images and descriptions.
3. Old-time online radio
Uses the music Queensland data set in combination with a sheet music-to-sound transformer to play older music online. Uses provided images, names and descriptions.
Both individual and group brainstorming methods were utilised to best generate these ideas and each of these methods had their advantages and disadvantages. In my opinion, individually brainstorming ideas worked best to create a lot of starting points for possible web applications and bringing these up in a group scenario helped to 'polish' the concepts and iterate them. I think that for this project group brainstorming helped me the most due to the fact that I could hear about ideas that I simply would not have thought of due to the nature of people thinking differently. To summarise:
Individual brainstorming was advantageous as I was able to generate a large number of base ideas for an application but was disadvantageous as I by myself did not know if the ideas would be possible to actually implement.
Group brainstorming was advantageous due to the fact that people think differently - my base ideas could be iterated to become possible and other ideas that I had not even thought of were presented.
The brainstorming process has really presented the opportunity for myself to link up with other people in the contact interested in creating similar applications. The challenge with this will be making sure that I and my group members are on the same page moving forward into designing and creating this application.
Before the major construction of the web application (physical coding) begins I aim to brush up on JavaScript and JQuery skills to ensure that I am able to do whatever task the team requires of me. I aim to have refreshed my skills by Week 4/5 as this is when the major designing phase of the project concludes and the construction phase begins.
1. Mining accidents visual timelineUses the QLD mining accident data to create a visual timeline of the events in the form of a hole being dug. Uses provided dates and incident descriptions.
2. Photo date guesserUses the photo Queensland data set and asks users to guess the date of a random photo as accurately as they can. Uses provided dates, images and descriptions.
3. Old-time online radioUses the music Queensland data set in combination with a sheet music-to-sound transformer to play older music online. Uses provided images, names and descriptions.
Both individual and group brainstorming methods were utilised to best generate these ideas and each of these methods had their advantages and disadvantages. In my opinion, individually brainstorming ideas worked best to create a lot of starting points for possible web applications and bringing these up in a group scenario helped to 'polish' the concepts and iterate them. I think that for this project group brainstorming helped me the most due to the fact that I could hear about ideas that I simply would not have thought of due to the nature of people thinking differently. To summarise:
Individual brainstorming was advantageous as I was able to generate a large number of base ideas for an application but was disadvantageous as I by myself did not know if the ideas would be possible to actually implement.
Group brainstorming was advantageous due to the fact that people think differently - my base ideas could be iterated to become possible and other ideas that I had not even thought of were presented.
The brainstorming process has really presented the opportunity for myself to link up with other people in the contact interested in creating similar applications. The challenge with this will be making sure that I and my group members are on the same page moving forward into designing and creating this application.
Before the major construction of the web application (physical coding) begins I aim to brush up on JavaScript and JQuery skills to ensure that I am able to do whatever task the team requires of me. I aim to have refreshed my skills by Week 4/5 as this is when the major designing phase of the project concludes and the construction phase begins.
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