#114 Who is a Post-Consumer? HT30007 – Assignment 2a (Part 2)

As said in the last post about this (here). Here is the poster about who is a post consumer, as done by Connor.

#108 Who is a Post-Consumer? HT30007 – Assignment 2a (Part 1)

Assignment 2 is the start proper start of the team project for Design Studies this semester. First task was to come up with a poster that profiles a post-consumer (the poster will be added when it has been put online)

The lead up to creating the poster involved doing research into a post consumer. Who they were, what their income was, what they liked to do, their age etc. Quick research was done, though in saying quick it wasn’t really as it was quite obscure. In the meantime, whilst waiting for the poster, here are my notes on who a post-consumer is.

#105 Learning Styles HT30007 -Assignment 1

Second semester of third year at university. Yes I can smell the end, and believe me, it can’t come quick enough.

The first task for the design studies HT30001 module was to determine our learning style using either an online version of the of the Learning Styles test, or one which could have been printed off. The test scored you on how much of an Activist, Reflector, Theorist or Pragmatist you are on a scale from Very Low to Very Strong.

My results were:

• Activist: Very Low
• Reflector: Strong
• Theorist: Very Strong
• Pragmatist: Moderate

The results do reflect myself to a certain degree. I am not usually one who likes to be at the centre of attention and I prefer to take a step back, getting a view from all angles or sides before making a decision, and this is shown in the results by the low activist and the high theorist result. It does show that to a certain extent, that I am multi-modal (via the results for the reflector and the theorist). Being a moderate pragmatist shows that I like to see if my idea works in practice. Whilst that is true some of the time in what I am doing, I would not say it was an overly accurate results for this part of the test.

After meeting up with the rest of the group (the same group as it was for semester 1), we compared results and found out that the most dominant learning style was true for every member. The group did have a number of each learning style which should in theory lead to a group which works well in all conditions. In most of the other members, it was not just one dominant style that was apparent, but two. In guessing what everyone else was before sharing our results, accurate results were given again, showing that evidently it is the personality of the person that makes them learn in different ways.

Here are the results for everyone else in the group:

• Connor: Activist/Pragmatist
• Callum: Activist/Reflector
• John: Theorist
• Suzanne: Reflector/Theroist
• Judith: Activist
• Quan: Activist/Reflector
• Qing: Activist/Reflector