Wayfinding: Evaluation

Life's a pitch was an interesting project to work on as the brief was to create a wayfinding system for a real life environment and one that I spend a lot of time in. 
As a group I think myself, Hannah, Callum, Amy and Liam worked well initially. We were organised from the beginning and delegated individual tasks so that we would complete all we needed to. We also met weekly to catch up with eachother and discuss the progress we had made and the direction the project was heading in.
However we faced some problems when some members did not attend all meetings, leaving some people to do more work than was initially delegated to them. This disrupted the flow of the project and put some stress on the group. Overall though, we were able to overcome this problem and presented a developed and considered concept in a concise presentation.

Feedback was mostly positive with John praising our presentation skills and the use of a video which demonstrated our app in real time, which allowed viewers to realise our concept as a viable wayfinding system. I think the addition of a video to our presentation helped to portray our group in a more professional light. The main element I took from our feedback was that we needed to back up our concept with facts and statistics on phone use within our target market to further enforce that we had researched the audience and its needs, as well as practice our presentation more beforehand to reach the time constraints better and gain feedback from a source non privy to the idea.

Overall I was happy with my group and project we ended up with, even if we did run into problems. I normally get very nervous before presenting to a group but as we practiced the presentation beforehand and had structure and a vague script, I knew what to say. I also think producing in a group alleviates the pressure and we could bounce off eachother well to make the presentation more fun and interesting to watch as well as give. The activity has boosted my confidence within presenting skills as I have had practice and now have feedback to work upon for future pitches I will give.