Project 1 Revision

My revision process for project one definitely benefitted from the peer workshop we did in class and the visual rhetoric and basic design principles lesson. Before these classes, I didn’t have a good understanding of what the project really was and what it was trying to accomplish, but then I realized its all subjective and we could make it however we wanted it to be. I started out by revisiting what my peers thought I did good on, and what they thought could be changed. I made these revisions first, the day after we did the workshop in class. Then after the visual design lesson, I realized I should change the whole look of the map based on the design principles we learned, and I could enjoy creating the map how I wanted it to look. Overall, I feel really good about the revision process, because while creating the first draft I felt like I didn’t know what I was doing, but going back and revising made me realize I had good ideas that just needed to be organized better, so it was a much easier process. I did the revision process over the weekend, a few days after the visual design class, so that I had a few days to think about what I wanted to do and how I wanted my map to look like. I worked by the Dunkin Donuts in the student center early in the morning because there are usually only a few people there and its quiet yet lively at the same time so I wouldn’t be too distracted. The whole process took about 2 hours to think about how I really wanted my map to look like and how to organize my ideas, actually create the map, and write out the memo explaining my choices. While I thought the revising process would be very annoying to do, I genuinely didn’t mind it because I knew the ideas I had, but just needed to organize them in a better way, so I don’t think I would change anything about the process.