Review Final

PROJECT REVIEW



Firstly, I will talk about the use of the design cycle. The design circles helps to break problems into smaller parts that are easy to solve. I applied it to most of the projects. It saved time! It would be a lot easier when you state the problem, gather ideas, select a solution, build it and present. In these projects, we used Roller Coaster Tycoon as a theme park where I am the manager; I had to make leaflet, poster and advertisement to let people know about this park. I also have to managing the loss and profit of the park. With skills of using Excel, I can put numbers on, using formulas to calculate the incomes of foods/drinks and tickets fee. Therefore, I can know whether the park has made a profit or loss.
I designed the poster on a piece of paper like a plan so that I will get an idea of how my poster is going to look like. I used the design cycle to break it down to smaller problems then I started to design it on software with the help of my friends. As I said above, I got my first draft done and asked others to comment on it. I changed my poster a lot after that. Most of the things didn’t even appear on the plans. I applied the skills of using Paint.net and PWP during the process of making this poster. I tried to follow the elements of design. And I think I got 4 over 5 for that because this poster is not very attractive to young kids and I think I missed some prices details. In my leaflet, I did the same thing. I made a sketch of how this poster looks, I made it look simple then add more details into it. I’ve got ideas from friends, and I changed it a little bit. When I started designed on the software, I got a lot of problems because many of it just doesn’t work the way I wanted it to. That’s why I have to re plan how my leaflet looks. I choose the background color of this leaflet was green because I think it represented a green friendly environmental park. I putted other features on it later to make sure I won’t have any problems because of the layers. I asked other to comment on my first draft and I realize I made the same mistake as the poster. This leaflet is not attractive and not very useful to young children. That’s why my last draft was looks completely difference than the first plan. My skills of using Excel improved during the spreadsheet project. I was like the manager of this park who control the finance. I had to calculate the total incomes of the park using the formulas. Cell formatting was where I could decorate the cell with colors and layers this made my spreadsheet looks better. I also used hyper link where I connect an object to another sheet which made it more professional. Being a manager, I had to predict the number of guest would come to the park because this number would help to calculate the incomes. This amount of people might change the number of prices of foods and drinks. Goal Seek is an example of skill I used to change this number to reach a target. All I did was put the cell I am looking to change in “Set Cell”, what cell value do I want to change to in “to value” and what cell needs to change for my number in “changing coal”.
I’ve learned a lot during this quarter, from managing park, controlling the incomes and making sure the park is making profit to how to design a perfect poster/leaflet for advertising.. Though I think I could improve by following along the rubric because now I know that’s the only way to get full points. I missed too many details. Every object we made was to view a specific group of people, specific audience because we can’t just make it for everyone. I think I used my time wisely during class. I posted my work on my blog and get others to comment on so that I was able to fixed it at home.