Digital making
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Students setting up the room for their exhibition on the final day of 10 day workshop (28 Aug - 8 Sep 2017) at Srishti N3 Campus - Room 307
At Srishti we run two five-week studio cycles each semester, with a two-week workshop slot in between. The students in this workshop had only just arrived at Srishti and spent about a month on general-skills classes. They had little exposure or coursework from the discipline they'd signed up for. This workshop was meant to be their first proper introduction to the domain, to set expectations and give them a clearer idea of HCD.
> Object Oriented Analysis & Design (OOAD) is a design paradigm: the process of planning a system of interacting objects generally to solve a (software) problem.
The starting question was whether students with little to no grounding in imperative programming, or in programming at all, could learn this. OOAD could help them break complex real-world cases into simpler models, then work with those models and implement them through code and design.
Vanshika explaining her project to Keshav
The workshop introduced students to this paradigm and why it matters for HCD/IXD. The approach is useful for designing software and well beyond it. Alongside OOD, they also worked with the Processing programming language as a medium to sketch interactions.
Students visually mapped their learning experience in this 10-day workshop.
Students demonstrating their understanding of Amazon Kindle through a conceptual model.
The exhibition remained full and lively throughout the day; One of the student explaining their work to the faculty
Students showing their prototype to Riyaz
Jaidev showing his group's demo
Oorja and Janaki demonstrating their prototype of a wrist band by using a mobile phone screen
The assignments that were given to the students’ involved tasks to understand the underlying complexity through OOAD artifacts and then rethinking interactions through video and Processing.
Thanks to all the students for being amazing throughout the workshop. Akshata, Atharva, Disha, Jaidev, Janaki, Keshav, Kineri, Maithili, Oorja, Pahel, Ramya, Ridhima, Shriya, Sneha, Vanshika, Yamini.