Since last Tuesday (13/10/09) following the pin-up crit for the 'True' brief, I have been working with 2 other colleagues on a brief of which we had to write ourselves. The idea is to design a system/service for a target audience that solves a problem we have found in the environment. So we began by going out into the environment to find problems that we could potentially solve. We visited the hospital/libraries/town/shopping centres in order to observe and try and find problems. We then took all these ideas into uni on Friday 16th October to work on and to narrow down to just one idea we would develop. 

Friday proved to be a really difficult day as our idea we decided to go with had such a broad audience and we had to narrow this down too. Eventually we had our brief .. which was a tough task to complete as no assumptions could be made. 

Our brief is to design a system/service where elderly people within a rest home can take back ownership and have their freedom and to take part in hobbies and interests.

Since Friday we have visited some homes to have a general chat with some residents to find out what they like, what they used to like and just to find out a bit about them, where then we can take a significant piece of information and to work on it. 

Today we have one more home to visit to a home to hopefully give us any last minute important information before we finalise a service/system design.