Post #9 Anthony Chan

Describe your experience of forming the team. 

Initially, the team comprised of Alan, Aaron, and me. However, Justin and Ryan trickled in as time progressed.

How did you determine who will do what?

We allotted the most tedious work to the one with the most skill, Ryan, and everything else was given on a first come first serve basis.

How was the role decided? Did you have problems with the assignment of the role?

It was based off of our abilities and motivation. 

How did you communicate with each other? During class, by email? Collaboratively or individually?

We communicated during class both collaboratively and individually. 

Did you have problems with communication?

Not too much, there were kinks when some of us were absent but they would not adversely affect things as anything could be done at a later date.

Did you have quality control? Did your Creative Director overlook the quality of everyone's work?

Each client project was different and the primary would take control of the situation and allot jobs depending on availability. The efficiency of each project was effectively determined by the primary that would allot the jobs.

With the clients, did you find your own and did our own work or work collaboratively on each project? If so, describe your roles? 

We worked together as a team to complete our goals.

As a team, were you able to meet the satisfaction of your clients by providing professional customer service, quality work and meeting the deadlines? Pleas share any positive or negative experience and how as a team, you resolve these issues?

No. We can know that, secretly, our projects are piss-poor creations that anyone with half a brain could make. Even our most skilled designer would not compare to a real graphic designer. We had neither the time nor the technical know how to create anything worth being paid for or displayed on someone's website.

Overall, how did you work with your team?

We worked well together since we had a good understanding of each others downfalls and strengths.

What have you learned? Did you have any regrets? What would you do differently?

I learned that you need excessive time to create any image worth being distributed. We also need to be wary of copyright infringement since many of the images could be considered such.

Rate your overall experience working with your team.

I rate my experience as an 8/10 since we collaborated efficiently with our only downfall being absolutely no real skill in professionalism. We were merely boys playing at being adults in the graphic design industry and any payed graphic designer would scoff at our pathetic efforts.

Post #8 Anthony Chan

Who was your client?

Alan's dad, Arthur Leung.

How did you get your job?

Alan's dad needed internet presence and our firm could help provide that for him.

Did you deal with the client directly?

No, Alan was the one who made contact with his dad. We were only workers.

Was there some sort of compensation?

No, we did this from the kindness of our hearts and the need to do something.

What was your role?

I helped create many of the corporate identity for the client's website.
 
Did you act professionally?

Yes, I worked through a chain of command and would do the work requested of me.

Did your client act professionally?

Yes, I never actually got to meet the client so it all felt like I was only a subordinate.

Describe the work you did.

I worked on the many corporate identity items but specifically did most work on the lanyard.


Describe your creative process.

I picked a blank lanyard and used his dad's preexisting logo to superimpose an image over the lanyard.


How often did you communicate with your client?

Often, since Alan sees him at home all the time. we communicated through him most of the time. 

Did you have regular meetings to look over proofs or progress of work?

No, we worked on a do and be judged basis where we critiqued each others work.

Were you able to meet the deadline?

Yes, we finished before the deadline. 

What was the feedback from your client?

He said it was not bad, but could be better.

Did your client require changes?

He suggested what we could of done differently but did not require changes. 

What was your favorite part working with the client?

He was honest and provided feedback. 

What was your least favorite part working with the client?

There wasn't much of a least favorite park for working with the client.

Would you do anything differently?

I would find a better image of the lanyard since I had to cut out a few pieces.


What did you learn from this experience?

I learned that there are other and more creative ways to creating a lanyard after looking at some examples afterwards. 

Post #9 - Aaron Ly

Describe your experience of forming the team. 

Initially it was just Anthony, Alan, and I. Then Ryan and Justin joined in second semester and we worked together. 

How did you determine who will do what?

We gave each other jobs we were specifically good in. Ryan was Design Director. Justin was the Customer Relationships. 

How was the role decided? Did you have problems with the assignment of the role?

It was based off of our abilities and motivation. 

How did you communicate with each other? During class, by email? Collaboratively or individually?

We communicated during class both collaboratively and individually. 

Did you have problems with communication?

Not so much. We are good friends and we have access to each other since we see each other almost every day. 

Did you have quality control? Did your Creative Director overlook the quality of everyone's work?

Our Creative Director told us what needed to be changed and what could stay.

With the clients, did you find your own and did our own work or work collaboratively on each project? If so, describe your roles? 

We worked as a team to finish the client projects, but most of the time we did individual projects.

As a team, were you able to meet the satisfaction of your clients by providing professional customer service, quality work and meeting the deadlines? Pleas share any positive or negative experience and how as a team, you resolve these issues?

We thought we did the client projects right, but in the end we did them wrong and had to correct ourselves. 

Overall, how did you work with your team?

We all had a good time and it was pretty fun. 

What have you learned? Did you have any regrets? What would you do differently?

I learned that we need to pay more attention to the directions and don't have much regrets. 

Rate your overall experience working with your team.

I rate my experience 8/10. There should just be the client projects and no other mini projects in between because everything would be all over the place. The project should've had our mind focused on it and nothing else. With that said, the deadlines should be earlier. 

Post #9 Justin Sam

Describe your experience of forming the team. 
I was new and therefore I was not part of the original team. I had just dropped in at 2nd semester and that due to my social interaction ability, I was made the customer specialist.


How did you determine who will do what?
Anthony was the leader in this. He researched everyone's talents and assigned the positions. 


How was the role decided?  Did you have problems with the assignment of the role?
I became the customer relations specialist due to my ability to socialize and help conflicts rather easily


How did you communicate with each other? During class, by email? Collaboratively or individually?
We communicated in all forms ranging from emails all the way to face to face conversation. We worked as a team and naturally succeeded as a team.

Did you have problems with communication?
Not to my knowledge.


Did you have quality control?  Did your Creative Director overlook the quality of everyone's work?
Yes, our creative director reviewed our work as well as the rest of out group.


With the clients, did you find your own and did our own work or work collaboratively on each project?  If so, describe your roles?
As I far as I know, we worked together on most if not all projects


As a team, were you able to meet the satisfaction of your clients by providing professional customer service, quality work and meeting the deadlines?  Please share any positive or negative experience and how as a team, you resolve these issues? Yes our clients became very pleased with our works.


Overall, how well did you work with your team? 
We worked very well with small bumps here and there.


What have you learned? Did you have any regrets?  What would you do differently?
We have learned that through teamwork, we can accomplish most anything. I would not regret or do anything differently.


Rate your overall experience working with your team.   
I would rate it 8/8, because it was great mate.

Post #9 - Ryan Guerrero

Describe your experience of forming the team. 

Lots of fun moments, crazy procrastinations

How did you determine who will do what?

I was the most creative and had alot of knowledge in Photoshop while the others were able to still make designs and ask me what my opinion was on it

How was the role decided?  Did you have problems with the assignment of the role?

Ability, who knows what do to what, no problems on the assignment of the role

How did you communicate with each other? During class, by email? Collaboratively or individually?

We sit right next to each other so we were constantly in each others ear 
Did you have problems with communication?

No

Did you have quality control?  Did your Creative Director overlook the quality of everyone's work?

Yes, I helped voice each others work and helped them

With the clients, did you find your own and did our own work or work collaboratively on each project?  If so, describe your roles?

We worked collaboratively to complete our projects for our clients. We worked as a team, we picked each others back to try to finish the project as fast as possible

As a team, were you able to meet the satisfaction of your clients by providing professional customer service, quality work and meeting the deadlines?  Please share any positive or negative experience and how as a team, you resolve these issues?

Yes, they loved our work even though we were amateurs, they didn't have to pay for professional designs

Overall, how well did you work with your team?

Fun, we had a lot of fun working with each other
 
What have you learned? Did you have any regrets?  What would you do differently?

Paid attention and got some deadlines completed instead of procrastinating

Rate your overall experience working with your team.   

10/10 Lot's of memories working with each other

Post #8 - Ryan Guerrero

Who was your client?

Arthur Leung.

How did you get your job?

Alan asked his dad for the job 

Did you deal with the client directly?

Yes, Alan dealt with the client because their related

Was there some sort of compensation?

None

What was your role?

I created the corporate identity portion
 
Did you act professionally?

Yes, I acted professionally.

Did your client act professionally?

Yes, he acted professionally.

Describe the work you did.

I created a corporate identity, mail logo design, business card and a CD-Rom design

Describe your creative process.

I just downloaded their logo because the client wanted to use his own logo, and I used colors that were bright and made sense to the company


How often did you communicate with your client?

Alan constantly communicated with his dad

Did you have regular meetings to look over proofs or progress of work?

We constantly tell each other what were doing and how were doing a certain portion

Were you able to meet the deadline?

Yes

What was the feedback from your client?

It was decent for amateur work

Did your client require changes?

Not really

What was your favorite part working with the client?

He's good at critiquing 

What was your least favorite part working with the client?

Not much, his company makes fruit snacks so yum!

Would you do anything differently?

More designing

What did you learn from this experience?

We learned ways to incorporate the logo without making it

Post #9 Alan Leung

Describe your experience of forming the team. 

We were formed with initially of Aaron, Anthony, and me. However Ryan and Justin joined in second semester and we worked together to form the Best Firm Ever.

How did you determine who will do what?

We based it off our abilities. For example, Ryan was assigned Design Director because he is good at photoshop and creating Logos. Justin is new so he was in charge of handling the customer relationships. Anthony manages us to get us in check cause he knows how to get us to work. Aaron is good in illustrator and art, so he was the Creative Designer. I can edit our work and critique how the project looks so I was Web Designer.

How was the role decided?  Did you have problems with the assignment of the role?

It was mostly based off our abilities and motivation. We did have slower days where we did not do as much, but in the end, we pulled it together and finished the work.

How did you communicate with each other? During class, by email? Collaboratively or individually?

We communicated with each other during class and sometimes when we saw each other on campus, we would ask how the client project was going.

Did you have problems with communication?

Not really. We are good friends so we have access to each other. Furthermore, the clients was our parents so we had good communication.

Did you have quality control?  Did your Creative Director overlook the quality of everyone's work?

He did oversee everyone and tell us what needed to be changed and what could stay. He helped me edit and fix some of the photos that weren't sufficient.

With the clients, did you find your own and did our own work or work collaboratively on each project?  If so, describe your roles?

We worked collaboratively to complete our projects for our clients. Most of the time, we did individual projects, such as corporate identities for me and we all took over in some part of each other's job. Technically, we worked as a team to complete each other and the leader of each position shared their leadership.

As a team, were you able to meet the satisfaction of your clients by providing professional customer service, quality work and meeting the deadlines?  Please share any positive or negative experience and how as a team, you resolve these issues?

We made the deadline for every client project but we had to redo them. I think we did well as a group;however, we misunderstood some earlier directions so it threw us off track. It would help if we were to pay more attention in class and had more consistent work days. However, I think our group was very memorable and sufficient for an amateur design team.

Overall, how well did you work with your team?

We all had a good time and overall, it was pretty fun.

What have you learned? Did you have any regrets?  What would you do differently?

I learned an amateur design team is far different from a professional design team. Our works were not bad, but I am positive professional teams would make our designs look bad. I think we probably could have paid attention more and had less slow days to make our team more efficient. Furthermore, we needed more practice with the programs to give us greater control of the design tools.

Rate your overall experience working with your team.   

I rate my experience as a 9/10. We had slow days, but in the end we pulled it off and was a great team.