29 Mar. - 4 Apr. 2021

The end of the semester is finally in view. I can feel the slow transition from "revision – feedback – revision – feedback" to final deliverables. With my user testing complete and feedback revisions finalized, I'm starting to visualize how to best showcase my project as a whole.

As far as I've come, I don't want to forget about the beginning. How I started with research on dissociation and memory retention, slowly moving to trauma processing, and seeing the pattern of methodical movement show up in my research. That I put all of the information I had gathered together to create something that I had never seen before. How my content came from different places but somehow all collided together at the right times to move me to my next conclusion or question. I feel like all of that is the creme de la creme and I don't want my final product to overshadow the research and strategy that created the recipe.

I love the research – I constantly want to be in the throes of it. I know how easily insights can be overlooked, but that is where I find my creative energy flowing the most. Empathizing with the user, listening to personal experiences, and strategically seeing how design can make a difference lives in the research. So, with all that being said, I still want my deliverable to speak to all those notions, those deep, complex, paradoxical research notions. Now, I just have to figure out how to present it.

As for this past week, I was also working on something that brings me joy – prototyping. Working in XD, I was able to finalize interactions and see how design elements might flow between each other. I still have a few interactions left to go, but I see myself having a complete walkthrough by the end of the week.

I've always found prototyping to be really relaxing and I find a lot of excitement in creating new ways for elements to move or animate. I love the way the movement + mantra frames have been able to animate fairly seamlessly and am proud to showcase this soon.

Till then – into AfterEffects for the concept video!