Wednesday, November 19, 2008

Thesis

1. Calder Field House and Angell Field must be improved.

2. I plan to address the size and price constraints. Both of these have a lot of things to do with improving the two things because to renovate these it will take a lot of money. The most important trigger points are the stands for the fans, and renovating Calder because it is outdated and it needs to be upgraded.

3. There are five readings that I can use to help write my paper. The five are The Experience Architect, Product, Services, and Branding Strategies, The Three Levels of Design, The Design of Everyday Things, and City.

4. "A good conceptual model allows us to predict the effects of our actions. without a good model we operate by rote, blindly; we do operations as we were told to do them; we can't fully appreciate why, what effects to expect, or what to do if things go wrong. As long as things work properly, we can manage. When things go wrong, however, or when we come upon a novel situation, then we need a deeper understanding, a good model."

This is from The Design of Everyday Things. For a big project like this you will need a great model.

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