In your role as the Client, you will commission a Design team, located in different country, to provide your client team with design proposals for an item (physical, or combination of physical and digital, or physical and digital service) which either promotes and/or celebrates a specific local practice(s) with focus on the broad theme of Celebrating the Daily Joys of Life. You can also think about the Client role as a manufacturer commissioning a design consultancy in a different country. You will need to select specific family members, such as your grandparents, parents or aunts or uncles, who will form the intended “users” for the proposed designs. To develop the Client Design Brief, you will need to prepare information, such as storyboards or short movies, which will help your paired Design team to become familiar with your selected users' day to day local practices.  In the Client role, you, as the cultural experts on your selected users’ practices will need to analyse these practices to guide and evaluate the Design team’s progress. After you will receive the final design proposals from your Design team, you, as the Clients, will be responsible for constructing a physical model/prototype/mock-up. You will use the model as a prop in a short video to demonstrate how it supports your users’ daily activities. Based on your client's brief and weekly feedback the received design proposal developed by your designers and guided by. Therefore, throughout the process as clients you will need to provide careful feedback and guidance to your designers. You will also be required to produce: a maximum 60-second promotional video for the item and 2 boards (A2 size) providing feedback for your design collaborators. The key activities and outcomes as the Client WeekClients' Wednesdays Deliveries Weekly Activities0104 October> Introduction to the project theme Celebrating the Daily and the online website.> Research potential directions for the project.As the client you will undertake research into the theme in order to inform the project brief.> Get to know your collaborators via Zoom, Skype, WeChat, Discord, Google Hangouts, Viber, or Kakao Talk, Line or FaceTime and document your meeting via your project sites!> You can create Gravatar account using https://en.gravatar.com/ you need to use the same email as you use to log onto your project site.0211 October> Lecture: How to write a design brief?> Submission: Upload the client design brief including deliverables onto project siteThe client design brief should be negotiated with your collaborators and agreed related to issues such as the deliverables and what criteria will be used by you as the clients to assess these design project deliverables.Upload the initial of the design brief to your Designers’ project site0318 October> Submission: Upload the revised agreed design brief including deliverables onto project siteUpload the agreed design brief including visuals/photos/videos you’re your Designers’ project site0425 October> Provide feedback to collaborators on their initial conceptsProvide feedback to your designers0501 November> Provide feedback to collaborators on their refined concepts during the weekProvide feedback to your designers0615 November> Provide feedback to…

In your role as the Client, you will commission a Design team, located in different country, to provide your client team with design proposals for an item (physical, or combination of physical and digital, or physical and digital service) which either promotes and/or celebrates a specific local practice(s) with focus on the broad theme of Celebrating the Daily Joys of Life. You will need to select specific family members, such as your grandparents, parents or aunts or uncles, who will form the intended “users” for the proposed designs. To develop the Client Design Project Brief, you will need to prepare information, such as visual storyboards or short movies, which will help your paired Design team to become familiar with your selected users' day to day local practices.  In the Client role, you, as the cultural experts on your selected users’ practices will need to research and analyse these practices to guide and evaluate the Design team’s progress. Based on your client's design project brief and you as Clients will provide weekly feedback on received design proposals developed by your paired Design team. Therefore, throughout the process as the Clients you will need to provide useful and critical feedback and guidance for your paired Design teams. Toward the end of project you as Clients will test the provided developed design solutions with your selected user.

You will commission a design team to provide you with a design proposal for an item (physical, or combination of physical and digital) which either promotes and/or celebrates a specific local practice(s) with focus on the broad theme of Celebrating the Daily... You will need to select specific family members, such as your parents or aunts or uncles, who will form the intended “users” for the proposed designs. To develop the brief you will need to prepare material, such as storyboards or short movies, which will help your design team to become familiar with your selected users' day to day local practices. You, as the cultural expert on your selected users’ practices will need to analyse these practices in order to guide the designers and to evaluate their progress. After you receive the design proposal from your design team, you as the client will be responsible for constructing a physical model/prototype/mock-up. It will be based on the design proposal developed by your designers and guided by your own brief and weekly feedback. Therefore, throughout the process as clients you will need to provide careful feedback and guidance to your designers. You will also be required to produce a maximum 60-second promotional video for the item and 2 boards (A2 size) providing feedback for your design collaborators.