#27 Final Editing on Project Timeline

After the consultation of Mr Michael, I need to edit a little bit on the title of activities which make them more standing out from the other texts. I will changed the colour of title event followed the colour of tips points for each activity. I also need to make title texts bold to show they are title of activities. Others than that, my timeline design for the project is already good enough. From this consultation, I realised that it is important to make the heading stand out more than the texts because heading will attract the users to read the following texts. Besides, the good heading also can easy go to mind of the users which will make them remember it more well.

So the project timeline looks like below:

#26 Design Project Timeline 2

I designed the project timeline to make it looks more interesting and professional. Actually at earlier I designed the tip points in different colour differentiate by the tasks. For example, all promoting task are in red colour, while all event tasks are in yellow colour. Yet I found that it is not really suitable to put it like that. So I differentiate the colours by follow the activity of project. For instance, for Mother's Day event, I make the tip points all in purple colour. So that the readers can east find and categorised what they need to do. After designed the tip points and arrows with the texts, I felt that was not enough for making the title more seems like title? So I added the dots lines below the title of events. The project timeline looked better after this.

#25 Design Project Timeline 1

I created and designed the project timeline for this DIY Reuse Project by using Adobe Photoshop. I typed out all the wordings first on the A3 size paper. It was very packed when I did all the text parts with font size 12. So I decided to cut out some not so important contents. It still felt very packed with those texts. So I keep reducing the font size of the texts until it become font size 9. Then the visual was just become better.

The first draft created without editing on texts.

The draft after texts edited.

#24 Analysis Results of Market Survey

After collected the feedback from the market survey, I did analysis on it as below:

To study the opinions of consumers, we have did a market survey on 25 respondents. The purpose of survey is to know what the consumers think about the products made from reusable materials. Most of them, around 16 consumers, willing to buy the products made from the reusable materials. It is because they think the products are eco-friendly, usable and unique/creative. Whereas the others who not interested to buy feel the products are not useful for them and not interesting enough. Most of the consumers think that the products are worth between RM5 - RM20. They were willing to pay more for the bag that was shown in picture. Some of the respondents think that the price of the products should be cheap since they are made from reusable items, yet some others have opposite opinions which they believed that those products should be more expensive since they are made from reusable things. Besides, around 21 respondents stated that they will definitely recommended these products to their friends and relatives since it is interesting and environment friendly. We also asked them if they want to learn to make such items which were made from reusable materials. Most of them say yes, since it can save money and it is interesting to learn. But a few respondents feel that they should just buy the products which is much more easier than making it themselves. Moreover, many respondents are willing to help in collecting the unwanted items for us to reuse it.

From the analysis, we realise that ‘environment friendly items’ can be the unique selling point of our products since most of the consumers highlighted it. Yet to make them have the desire to buy, we need to make the products unique, creative and usable. Furthermore, we also need to make sure that the products would not be damaged easily, since one of the respondents expressed his/her worries on this point. We also need not worry about the lack of wasted-reusable-materials since many respondents are willing to help us collect these items.

From the analysis, I knew that actually many youths love the environment. They attracted by the idea of reusing wasted material and made as new product. Most of them give very positive feedback for the market survey.

#23 Progress of Market Survey

The market survey questions have been printed out and we need to get the feedbacks from the youth. So, another group member and I decided to go library and find students who willing to give feedback to us. We chose library as our choice because the people would not run away from the chairs in library. We know it is not so proper, but actually many students in Taylor's did that before to collect the responds.

So another group member and I separated the surveys half amount and go to different ways to spread it out. I checked on the faces and actions of the students first then I just went closer to them. It is because I may disturbed some students who really want to concentrate on study or assignments. I only spotted those students who looks not busy or talking. Then I went to them and ask whether they free to lend me one minute to fill in the survey for me. Luckily, they are all willing to help. It was interesting when I asked a table of 3 students whether they free or not, two girls were rejected to fill in that survey because they wanted to focus on their assignment. When I just want to leave the table, the third girl said just give her the paper, she willing to fill in. I was happy and just give her the paper. When I moved to other table, I heard that the third girl said to the other two girls, "We should be helpful to fill in this, because later if we need to collect feedbacks, we also need help from the others.". I did not know why, but is quite warming, not like using each other, but just think of each other, that helpful feeling.

After 20 minutes, we finish the section that hunting people to fill in the survey.

#22 Develop Market Survey

To know what the youths think about products DIY by reusable materials. I have made a market survey questions with my another group member. We inserted the images of the DIY products and introduced them on the paper. So that the respondents will know what is that and understand what is happening which make them easy to answer the survey. The images I putted is a DIY handbag which targeted to female respondents and two DIY lamps which made from drink bottle and Starbucks paper cup with broken glass. In the market survey, we asked would the respondents buy it, how much the products worth, would they recommend to people around them, do they want to learn how to make that kind of DIY things and are they willing to help us or donate the unwanted items for us. Yet the way we expressed in the questions are quite messy, so we ask consultation from Mr Micheal, the lecturer, to help us on checking and editing those questions. We were really appreciated the great concerns of our lecturer on this project.

#21 Analysis & Summarise Data Second Research

We scared the interview sources is not enough to support our solution, so with the help of lecturer, we have an article about recycling cantons. We will tried explored the reasons and the facts about recycle or reuse in it. I did the study and analysis on it. Yet after analysis and summarise on the article, I realised that actually the article is not really related to our project purposed. It is more to how they recycled the cantons. It was quite wasting time which the article is quite long, yet I gain some knowledge on what can be recycle from those cantons and how the process is. From this experiences, I learned that I need to have better understanding for the the contents first then just go into more deep to analysis.