Jury mode : a template for Design Juries

Jury Mode

Kavish Mahajan Garima Gupta

Subject: Experience Design

the studios where classes take place.

Experience Design (XD) is the practice of designing products, processes, services, events, omnichannel journeys, and environments with a focus placed on the quality of the user experience and

Students put up there works in their allocated spaces. The teachers have a panel and students come one by one to showcase their work and to get a critique on their designs.

Our Topic:

Our team did a lot of research on how exhibitions work, how they make the attendee feel and how they impact the experience of the user among other places like museums and trade shows.

Exhibition Halls what are they?

Exhibitions are public display of works of art or items of interest, held in an art gallery or museum or at a trade fair. and Halls, well you know.

The goal was, to make better the rooms where the juries in college happen.

Juries in a design college happen in

It has been like this since a long time.

How do different types of exhibitions operate?

_MUSEUM Museum is a building in which objects of historical, scientific, artistic, or cultural interest are stored and exhibited. It is open for public viewing which gives the visitors notable understanding. It a non-commercial type of exhibition since its purpose is to protect its collection from being lost and damaged and make them last for years. _ART EXHIBITIONS Art exhibitions can include paintings, figurines, drawings and photos. They can be commercial and non-commercial.

Non-commercial art gallery shows art pieces of renowned artists and is available to the public.

Commercial art exhibitions, on the other hand, are held to showcase the artworks of debutant artists.

_TRADE EXHIBITIONS Trade shows are events between organizations and business. They are intended to let the members showcase their items and check whether it can gain the enthusiasm of another organization. They are commercial exhibition but only those invited can attend.

_CONSUMER EXHIBITIONS Consumer exhibitions are taken advantage by different companies to expose their products and services to the public. The theme can be intended for a particular demographic (mothers, teenagers) or gathered to demonstrate a specific item or administration (IT shows, car shows). The idea behind this occasion is to draw in the public to purchase their items or administrations.

What would be a better place to conduct deign juries?

Foyer would be the most Convinient place to conduct a jury because of it’s sheer size alone. The foyer can host up a lot of students and give them appropriate place to showcase all their projects in all their glory.

307A,B,C and other big studio rooms can host a reasonable number of students, there wont be any issues of space there but it won’t be as expansive as the foyer.

G03 and the largest studios in the college work in conjunction of the two rooms it is divided in, it has a height constraint but plenty of space available, but also is a little confusing as to how the room is laid out.

About Design Juries A jury is the most integral part of a design college. Design juries can be terrifying. It doesn’t really matter if you are an designer or a student the experience can be soul destroying.

Get it wrong and you can lose the job or fail.

Get it right and you live in order to fight another day.

But speaking well in public and knowing the essential lessons of presenting a design can be the difference between passing or

Standing in front of a panels of honest jurors is one of the most terrifying things a design student hasv to bare in his career, as rewarding as it might

On the contrary, if this was it, juries would be a lot more successful.

Where the students struggle is the way the presentation works, they don’t prepare themselves for a pitch because they dont have any idea about for how long they’ll be speaking or how long do the jurors want them to present. Same goes for the jurors, they don’t get the full picture because of the same limitatons

The problems with design juries : Time management.

Lack of a proper space for display.

Presentation Requisites Lack of proper interaction and engagement.

Not a model for interventions with people outside the class.

From a juror’s perspective, neither of those two things matter.

The entire point of a jury review process is to present your ideas and see if other people come to similar conclusions given the parameters of the problem weighed against your solution.

If you present a design solution and describe it as “minimal” and a juror looks at it and thinks that your version of minimal looks like my version of a pop art, you are not in the same place. You defending your solution by explaining why it doesn’t look like a pop art is unlikely to change my mind from the belief that it does. Rather than try to explain that your logic and conclusions are sound (which can make you come off as defensive, stubborn, even argumentative) try to ask questions and have the juror take the lead and explain their comments in a context that you can internalize and build upon.

In other words, take the feedback and move on.

So, to tackle the problem of how a design jury is conducted, we designed a better protocol for the experience of the whole jury. Paths we explored are exhibitions, and other mass events that happen around us.

We delved into what kind of courses does the college provides, and how they feel about their college experience.

Our team would like to thank the students who took part in out surveys and who gave us their valueable opinions.

Now let’s look at the results of the survey.

Our Focus

School of Design: Communication design Interior and Architecture Design Product Design

Communication Dance(CD): Our module is all about communicating through visuals. We have two subjects this module: Experience design and Design research. In experience design, we have to know about of space and how to alter it according to the audience’s need, so that it creates an interactive experience for them to be a part of. Design research on the other hand is about how we can do a lot of research about a topic and how we present that research to others, be it visually, audibly, etc.

Interior Architectural Design(IAD): Our last module was about a residential space and all the technicalities in designing a home. This module is somewhat about a hotel.

Our projects are mainly designing spaces and making models with plans and sections and sketches.

Product Design(PD): We have DRII and DHI, ie. Design research, inspiration and interpretation, which is about being empathetic and solving design problems. DHI is Design and human interaction, in which we study ergonomics (the study of people’s efficiency in there working environment) and Anthropometrics (designing furniture and machinery) in products.

Things in common: Research Work Space Design/ Experience Design Models

Majority surveyers voted on a non-saleable model for the jury, they don’t want their projects to be up for sale. A good number of people also wanted the sale model to be there with reasonings that it would help them reach out a wider audience of people and a good amount of career oppurtunities

The idea of a saleable model for the jury or atleast the final jury, sounded genius when it was first conceived. But our research proved us wrong.

The idea was to open up the juries to outside audience so they can purchase the projects that they like or provide the creator with oppurtunities while being in the college.

There is a drive among college students to do work while studying and achenving greater goals. This seemed like an idea to get the students a better reach in the world.

While discussing it with our peers, we found out the idea had more potential than we imagined. But the research proved the contrary, the surveyers also had some opinions about the work not being good enough to be sold, which shows a lack of confidence among the students.

This can be solved with this solution. But for now this has been put out of the context for this project.

A template for the jury is the whole process of how a jury happens. It consists not only the experience of the jury, the process of showcasing projects, and all the misc. aspects of a design jury.

While looking at how all of our research on Exhibitions and Shows, we were looking at the space aspect of the jury.

feel more interactive.

Playing on psycology, it can make a boring piece of art seem exuberant.

We explored a lot of ideas of how the rooms can be laid out, how the displays can be more interactive, or how the lighting in the room work in conjunction to the space provided for the exhibition.

The layout of the same room can only be changed so many times.

So a layout solution was out of the way.

Most of the exhibitions use a lot of props and extravagant wealth of displays to make their projects look and feel better than what it really is. That plays on the mind of the consumers, as they perceive the main thing as the only thing for which all the other props are made for. But a design jury is no place for these amenities.

The lighting is a very constrained aspect fo the space that the user can control. But better lighing systems make the displays look and

And then, Irony hits you in the face, for the same budget that a installation costs, how about we make a design solution to the jury problem that is interactive as well as new.

It is function over form that leads to a better design system that is timeless as well as modern.

We wanted to integrate technology into the template from the very start and it all starts with a piece of computer in your pocket.

Integrating

Technology from the scratch.

We started off with how a presentation is done.

We have been told by our mentors that we should approach juries like how we would prepare for a client briefing once in the field.

There have been no guidelines till now about how a presentation should be happening in a jury. Connecting a laptop and presenting a ppt on the projector would work, but what if there was a better way to do presentations with your laptop and using your phone as a controller.

How about adding a timer to the presentation so as creating a guideline for the presentation part of the jury.

Presentation mode Timer An app to control the whole presentation seemed like a good idea in the start.

The app can easily connect to the PC with either the wifi or bluetooth. The app can also guide us in how the presentation is laid out for the showcase.

A smartphone is an essential nowdays, whoever uses it also knows their way around technology and with a few basic steps, they can learn the app and how it connects to your PC like a button to control the presentation.

It’ll also help students to compile all their work in one place while making the presentation.

Work Compilation

making

Space

work as an asset.

Thinking about the area where juries take place, there is a lot of potential in how these spaces can work in a flow to display works of art and projects of the future.

According to the surveys, Foyer seems like the best place to conduct juries, so for our idea, we worked primarily with the foyer.

Installations in the foyer were our first idea, some kind of a display where a model is placed can exhibit more about the project than possible now.

Display Surface for display

Glass is used in screens like TVs and Monitors, but to implement that would cost us greatly.

Though it can be used as a panel to display information works as the most accesible and customizaable way of displaying more about the project. A better lighting system for spotlight can also work.

Glass Display Our research found out a lot of students feel like their projects are’nt taken a look at solely when they’re presenting their projects. A spotlight system for focusing on the presentee’s project would tackle this problem. A better lighting system for the jury would greatly benefit the glass panels too.

Lighting system

a Techno-Space

Integrating basic tech in an expanse.

Conceptualising a solution for the Display and Lighting problem A glass display with information written on it onveys a lot about the project. Students can write on the glass panel with a neon pen and the lighting under the display can help them create divides of color among the text. The text on the glass panel can potray what the project really is about.

The dense wooden block can hold the glass panel as well as serve it’s main purpose; to host the projects for display.

For the solution on the display problem, our team came up with this idea of installing a dense wooden block of 8*4*3 dimension, the glass block hoists up the glass display panel with a tongue and groove joint.

The wooden block has LEDs in the groove joint to light up the glass panels to reflect the light off the text written via the neon marker.

The glass panel is a easy to write surface, a glass panel of 7*8 hoisted up the block displays all the information written on it with the neon marker.

The LEDs projecting from the bottom lights up the text and created a division among the panel.

bringing

Order to complexity designing a user experience

Our team developed an app to make all the parts of the experience come together. While working in the app, we realized this can be more than just a tool for the jury, it can be a companion to the college experience. with technology being more accessible now more than ever, the template our team came up with is easy to execute. _The app starts with the login page where students/teachers can login tying them into their SAP portal for time-table, contact protal, and course review. _The app then displays all the subjects with the projects percentage as in how much is completed. _You can either choose to see what projects are ongoing in your college, subject-wise. Or you can dive into jury mode which has all the compiled documents

The solution for a really complex template for the jury experience. gathered throughout the year, among the modules. _Jury mode turns it up to 11. _Jury mode has a Presentation mode, which has a timer for the presentation and the slide interfacing for upcoming slides. _Manage lighting lets you customize the lights in the glass panel as well as the top spotlight you can add your model’s picture and select the colors for the lights. _The center square on the main page contains all the documents and images for all the modules.

Start page

Module Page

The module page is the main landing page for the app, it displays all of the subjects in a specific module.

The app gives you a portal to the subjects and the jury mode.

When a project is selected. it opens up the project section of the app, this shows you the project progress in the header. The project is broken up into tasks that is assigned to specific people in the group. this eliminates a lot of group project anxiety.

The images of the people represent who the task is assigned to.

Module Page

The Module page lists all the ongoing projects as blocks, the colors on the block corresponds to the subject color, the lighter color fills up the block in realtime keeping a track of the progress of the entire module.

The images of the people represent who the task is assigned to.

Projects Page

When a project is selected. it opens up the project section of the app, this shows you the project progress in the header. The project is broken up into tasks that is assigned to specific people in the group. this eliminates a lot of group project anxiety.

The images of the people represent who the task is assigned to.

Module Page

The Module page lists all the ongoing projects as blocks, the colors on the block corresponds to the subject color, the lighter color fills up the block in realtime keeping a track of the progress of the entire module.

The images of the people represent who the task is assigned to.

Projects Page

Jury Mode

Our team developed an app to make all the parts of the experience come together. While working in the app, we realized this can be more than just a tool for the jury, it can be a companion to the college experience. with technology being more accessible now more than ever, the template our team came up with, is easy to execute.

Presentation Mode Jumping into Presentation Mode gives you a interface that provides you with a secondary screen that shows you the upcoming slides and the ability to control the presentation on the projector with your phone.

Manage Lighting This Section lets you manage the lighting system of the whole panel. The smartlights in the panel connect to the phone via wifi and then can be programmed as per user prefrences straight from the app.

Color Picker This section lets you program the color of the smartlights, in a future update the user will be able to adjust the intensity and strobe of the lights.