As an extreme introvert, who also happens to be afflicted with severe shyness, these interviews have been both an interesting and challenging process for me. Going into this, there were a few things I was not expecting 1. The amount of time it would take I thought this was going to be a simple case of a few emails, setting up a time and place to meet, having the interview and that would be that. Boy, was I wrong. So many people didn't want to be interviewed face to face (whic

Surprisingly, research is not something I dislike. Is it in my list of top 100 things to do, no, but in the greater scheme of things, there are worse things than research. Needless to say (after reading the title of this post, and maybe some of my earlier ones), research happens to be a pretty big part of this project. So here we go... So the best part of this part, was 100% looking at all of the other wordless picture books. One thing you should know about me, is that I am e

So what is my Wordless Picture Book Project all about? Seeing as how it is part of the Human Centered Design Thinking module, it can't be as straight forward as just illustrating a children's book with no words right? You would be absolutely correct in this regard: so let me explain... The Wordless Picture Book Project The Dithakga tša Gobala (Reading Champions) project aims to cultivate a love of books, reading and storytelling amongst South African children through the use

Walking into our lecture and getting told we were going to be working on a human centered design project, sounded like a lot of fun. And I think it still will be, but I also now know about all of the work it entails. It's so much more involved than I thought, maybe even more involved than I have ever been in a design project... First Contact We sat down in class on day 1, and we were introduced to just about every kind of person you could imagine. There were clients from almo