Archive for February, 2008

CMD Identity

February 12, 2008

Internships are over, and we are all going back to school again. New location, new teachers, new schedules… It actually feels like a completely new school, only I still got the same friends. But I think it’s actually a good move. The location looks nice, although some stuff could be better (need to go to the toilet?! go home!!!). And I really do believe we are gonna have a good time here. But one thing still really concerns me though. Who, or what are we? I really don’t see somekind of identity wich we as students can relate to. For example take the 3 main websites (why the hell three?!) we have to visit in order to get our documents and stuff. And what do we see; Three complete different websites, with really weird structures and they even seem to communicate with each other wich really confuses the user. How come a school called “Communication & Multimedia Design” doesn’t have a good identity? or at least a user friendly web enviorment?

CMD websites

Now I know it’s freakin easy to whine about school… But this is really a big problem and apparently nobody cares. To be honest I’ve never much cared about these websites either. Butduring my internship I saw how important it is to have a good identity and not confusing the user by mixing stuff up.

Funky Forest

February 11, 2008

Not so long ago I visited a really nice lecture from Mr. Theodore Watson. I knew that he was part the Graffiti Research Lab, but this presentation was a huge inspiration boost to me and my collegue Dennis. I’m gonna try to convince my User Experience Design teacher to get him down to our class and do a guest lecture so all of my friends can see how amazinly cool this is!