Brief Feedback & Reflection

Project working brief feedback

You need at least 3 theory titles within your brief, published books, as indicative reading references.


I would say firstly that the investigation of digital devices asks for further definition. I agree that they are inseparable from much in life, but you must expand this, I think to include objects as a whole. In your context try and explain the important social and cultural issues, observations and recent developments in the field that you are investigating. Describe what design has previously had to do with your field and what potential there is for interventions by designers now, or in the future. It is good practise to write a title and a subtitle sentence that supplements the core of the ideas you are looking to investigate.


An insight is a theoretical or ideological observation or notion. It should be formed of ideas from outside your own thinking, ideally gleamed from published work- books are best for this- brought up against your own ideas.

Engage with the human, social, cultural and societal issues at stake before you think about something as specific as a digital device. If you are already planning to involve a device you may completely miss an opportunity to actually take a fresh look at 'memory' and it's place in a wider field of experience.

Also try and write more, a brief should be about 1000 words.


To clarify-
Define all your terms. What is 'embodiment' etc. Try not to write as though you might see existing technologies as the only embodiment of your aims. These exist as a tiny part of a whole world of human interactions. People interact and use memory in so many ways and there is a huge insight that you will miss if you do not understand how and why remembering, recognition, groups, 'the remembered' and other key notions in this space operate and
effect behaviour. Danah Boyd writes a lot of good theory on social networks and youth. http://www.danah.org/ Also look at the work of Durrell Bishop- http://www.designinginteractions.com/interviews/DurrellBishop

Explain more clearly how you could create your approach, how it may question an issue through research methods and design experiments that you will then specifically define and how and why these methods are appropriate to your aims.

The presentation should include your results from all the ideation work so far, your brief and an explanation of a time frame map for the different stages of the project.

To do:

Research memory/recognition in more depth: academic journals, books  try and explain the important social and cultural issues, observations and recent developments in the field Describe what design has previously had to do with your field and what potential there is for interventions by designers now, or in the future. 

Investigate the concept of memory first hand. Detach the concept from digital platforms/devices. Clarify terms within the brief, and rewrite it taking into consideration the research and investigation.