-Week 9 – Water Proofing – DJ Drop The Beat – Team 4

By yuxu301/ William Xu Team DJ Drop the Beat: William (Yude) Xu, Ryan Yang, Muhammad Hussain In this week we’ve used numerous materials to build water proofing materials for our equipments. The first thing we made was the LED strip tube. In which it was designed to protect the LED strip from been damage when…

TEAM 4 – FINAL BLOG – DESIGN PROCESS EVALUATION – DJ DROP THE BEAT

Team DJ Drop the Beat: William (Yude) Xu, Ryan Yang, Muhammad Hussain   Final thoughts: We believe that one of our major mistake in the designing Process was as of the following 1. During our research and discovery period, we should have created personas before going into concept design. Without personas, the first three concepts our team created…

Week 13 Sk.8 Event Day – Team DJ Drop The Beat

By yuxu301/ William Xu Team DJ Drop the Beat: William (Yude) Xu, Ryan Yang, Muhammad Hussain Introduction In this week we prepared for the SK.8 Event day. Whereby we summarised the experience from our first user test and began drawing up two survey forms. One for the user and one for the spectators. The reason…

Week 11 User Test Changes and trouble shooting

  Week 11 User Test Changes and trouble shooting By yuxu301/ William Xu Team DJ Drop the Beat: William (Yude) Xu, Ryan Yang, Muhammad Hussain Introduction On this week’s user evaluation, tester made the following complaints animation speed was too fast Thus I tweaked the speed of animation to slow to down. I also tweaked…

Week 8 – 9 – 10 Programming Animation via Processing

Team DJ DROP THE BEAT Member: William Xu, Ryan Yang, Huassin Mohammad Throughout this week, our team began to build and code different components of our design the “iBench” separately. I was in charge of coding the animation. Requirements Our aim was to create animation (text, background animation) that resembles the art style of graffitis…

DJ drop the beat. Week 8 Environmental assessment and Equipment Placement

TEAM DJ DROP THE BEAT MEMBER: RYAN YANG, WILLIAM (YUDE XU), HUASSAIN MOHAMMAD In this week, our team did some planning on how we are going to place our equipment on the skate bench that is located in Sydenham. We also need to find out the lengths of our power cords and Arduino wires so…

Week 7 – DJ Drop the Beat – Progress Presentation by yuxu7301

Name: William (Yude Xu) / Ryan (Yang Ren) / Muhammad Hussain   In this week we’ve presented our design concepts to the class.  Before presenting we decided to select concept 1 as the main design that we will use for our concept. However, we have also the musical elements of concept 3 into the final…

Feedback from Research & Discovery – Week 6 – DJ Drop the Beat by yuxu7301

Name: William (Yude Xu) / Ryan (Yang Ren) / Muhammad Hussain   We’ve received a range of feedbacks from our first report. User Research and Video making (reflection): Overall we received positive remarks on our site research, background research. However, our user research was somewhat lacking because we did not clearly identify our user archetypes and…

Week 5 (team 4, DJ DROP THE BEAT) by yuxu7301

Name: William (Yude Xu) / Ryan (Yang Ren) / Muhammad Hussain On week five we complied our research data, site investigation and background data that we have done over the last few weeks. Through analysing these datas we were able to identify four main issues, one problem statement, and design objective. We were able to…