Personal Process Map: Exercise 2 (Part A)

As of now I have chosen to create my personal process map on the process of one of my daily workouts. I am still debating on which exact process to create a visual for, whether it should be for the overall concept of working out/exercising, or if I should create my project based on a specific workout that I personally perform. As the process continues I will determine which would be most beneficial and effective for this project. 

I created an idea map to help brainstorm some ideas surrounding my general concept: 

 

I also created a small idea map/tree to get slightly more specific in narrowing down a topic: 

 

For my final exercise I followed the 50 Question design thinking exercise, although coming up 50 questions was a bit more difficult than first anticipated so I completed 30: 

1. Will people appreciate a personal process map of a workout? 
2. Should the theme be aimed more towards general exercise? 
3. Will the audience think the idea is good or bad?
4. How many branches do I break off into? 
5. Should there be more detail within the personal map? 
6. What kind of images can be shown in the final product? 
7. What if people think the subject is too personal? 
8. What if the topic is seen as irrelevant? 
9. Will people appreciate the message behind the process map?
10. Is working out seeing as a necessity? 
11. Should facts be used in the personal process map to show benefits? 
12. Should exercise in general be addressed? Or my personal process of exercising? 
13. Is there a negative stigma towards people spend large amounts of time working out? 
14. What kind of stigma or opinions are out there towards the topic? 
15. Will it grab people’s attention? 
16. Should or do they care? 
17. What kind of designs can be applied to this kind of process map? 
18. What kind images, typography, or other techniques should be applied? 
19. How can I communicate underlying messages? 
20. How can this project change the way a person looks at exercising? 
21. Is exercising an issue with the audience? 
22. Will this help influence someone one way or another? Or will they care? 
23. How should I convey the message of the personal process map? 
24. What kind of message should I be aiming at creating? 
25. How personal should this process be? 
26. In what ways can this topic be made more interesting? 
27. Confidence? — Will it be seen as arrogance? Cheekiness? — comfort? 
28. What if I miss something during the process? 
29. How will my process compare to others? 
30. Will the process map create an opening for conversation regarding exercise? 

Based on these exercises and further review/discussion I will narrow down and choose a more specific topic that I can base my final project on. 

Exercise 3:

For exercise three we were asked to take a given body of text and manipulate the size, format, location, orientation, etc. in such ways that would present a piece that communicated the texts meaning. 

Example 1

 

For the first piece I decided to highlight each word that is connected to the measurement of time in some way. I find that highlighting these words will allow the viewer to better understand the entirety of the text and the main message surrounding life, and the various times and unique periods in an individuals life. I also changed the transparency of certain texts to enhance their meaning. The beginning of the text discusses an individual in their old age, therefore the text is very light and faded to embody the idea of old age. As the text continues and we find the individual becoming young, and stronger, the text becomes heavier and more oblique. The final sentence is at 100% and the freshest of all the text, as we discuss a new born, the stage in which a human can be described as the purest and freshest. 

 

Example 2 

 

For this piece I decided to rearrange the text and work with the structure/location of the various sentences. I reversed the way in which the story is told because I feel that it gives the idea of telling a story of ones life in proper order, and at the very again they wish they could live their life backwards, and in this time the reader may realize the text is indeed reversed. I also changed the location of most of the sentences in attempts to reflect the subject matter being discussed. Each time period described by Woody Allen is space in a way that reflects that periods meaning.