This week in class, Studio etiquette was covered, which in short, explained the Do’s and Don’ts within an office based environment. Luckily, a lot of what was covered is simple manners and common sense, of which my self and the rest of my class already do each class.
For me, I believe I’m very good at being introduced into new environments and team based settings, of course I had a lot of experience and changes to make it this far. For me the biggest area of etiquette I feel like I could improve on is meeting settings. For meetings, especially larger/ more important meetings I don’t usually speak up due to the fear of saying the wrong thing or embarrassing myself. Most of the time I don’t mind this and get over it or push myself but struggle more in trying to find a time to jump into a conversation.
One more area that was talked about was writing emails/ punctuation within emails. I’m aware of how an email should be written, including the context of what should be written/ how it should be structured, depending on who it is. I would say I struggle in this area more with keeping good punctuation and keeping track as if I’m being too formal or in formal.
An article I found to be really interesting and really reassuring, talks about the importance of collaboration and communication within a studio work place. The article also explains how everyone has either been in the same seat as myself or currently is.
Dennis Field | The Importance Of Design Etiquette
Following todays lecture, the rest of the day was spent developing and reviewing our portfolios. Originally, today was the due date for the portfolios but as a result from the rest of the class, it got moved to next week, which I was really happy about, considering my late changes.
I was a bit nervous to show my lecturer my progress, because of my really recent switch, but when I explained that to him he was very understanding and seemed quite surprised to see that I wasn’t really far behind at all.
When it came time to actually talk about my design, content and layout choices for the portfolio, my lecturer was really happy with just about all of it. He really liked the use of my colour palette, how my home screen presents itself, as well as the carousel portion of the website.
When I explained to him how I thought adding a ‘Work in Progress’ section on my home page, he really liked the idea, but wasn’t a fan as to how it was executed. Instead of having 3 projects, represented when I would realistically only be working on one or max two, he thought it would be best to limit it to just the one.
Another thing he talked about was my contact page. Instead of having a full page dedicated to it, he thought it might be easier for myself and the website to just make that into a button. Once clicked it would bring the user straight to my email address. I really liked this instead of the original as it was a lot less time consuming and just made a little more sense.