research method - digital reading/highlighting & post-it note note making

 I am intrigued with this combination as previously I have struggled with digital reading but I usually make notes in a notebook which is often intimidating and allows for too much space, encouraging me to just copy the text. I think the act of highlighting will help me to engage with and potentially better understand the reading but without a physical print out it may help me to better form my own thoughts, going off purely my hand written notes.













I didn't even finish the intro of this book and already it gave me some interesting thoughts and ideas - I often use academic research as a way of spring-boarding a load of ideas myself which has worked well here, giving me lots of different thoughts to explore.

I'm really intrigued by the idea of creating something specifically that will engage social curiosity and therefore engagement. Creating something that will either give you an answer to a question through interaction or something that will lead you elsewhere (similar to the outcome of one group in the last workshop/lecture we had). Very interesting...

Also interesting to consider both what is considered an object but also how to integrate a physical object into an element of design - I experimented a lot with 2D puzzles last year as well as slider puzzles, which of course are generally targeted towards children but may work more for adults with some editing. That isn't to say that the work couldn’t be directed towards children, it just wouldn’t be as easy for me to test and develop.
Many interesting thoughts here, I just need to work out where to take project and the next steps.
















 

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