Performance Evaluation: Semester 1

That came and went a bit quick didn’t it? I can’t believe that already I’ve got three full assignments under my belt, and I feel so different and more like a designer already. Most of all: I feel more confident in my abilites. No more do I worry when I’m presented with a design problem, because before I used to not even know where to start. Now I’m confident how do go about it. Anyway, let’s take a look back at the semester, assignment by assignment.

That’s The Plan
It was the first time back into an education situation after a long couple of months, and it showed. I panicked like mad when I started getting into the assignment proper, and started getting really flustered and not knowing where to start. Even though I had time plans, this was the first time I’d ever used them, and after a couple of weeks they went straight out of the window. Overall, I was pretty disappointed with my performance in this first assignment, but it taught me some valuable lessons about myself, and just exactly what I needed to improve on.

I made it my action plan to improve on my time planning.

Back To BASIC
This assignment was very similar to the last, apart from with the added stress of sorting out content too. I actually found the content section of the assignment the most relaxing and easiest to do. Time planning went a lot better this time, but I found that I wasn’t planning on a micro level enough. The main problem I found in this assignment was my annoying ability of writing too much. It added a lot of stress onto the web plan for me because I found myself having to edit a lot.

This time, I’ve made it my action plan to continue improving on time planning and to write more concisely.

Picture This
Picture This ran alongside Back To BASIC, and I found it to be the light relief to the stress of the other. A nice bit of creative work was thrown in, and I was happy for the difference in tasks. I felt I used all the knowledge I have so far effectively to create my banners, and took into account everything I had learnt. I was happy with my final designs that I created.

The problem I had was with the essays, which were getting the word count down again. I created a similar action plan for this assignment too, to make sure that I wrote more concisely.

Here’s to hoping I’ve at least passed these two assignments.

Have a good Christmas everybody, I’ll see you on the other side.