OUGD503 - Time Management

Time Management

Things that helped with Time Management:

- Having monthly calendars pinned up allowed key dates, submissions, workshop slots and key things to do to be noted down. This provided a visual reminder of how much time there was left before deadlines etc.

- Each day to do lists were created, initially these were quite general just suggesting which work to do however later in the module this was key to making sure lots of things needed to be done in a short amount of time.

- Design Boards were mainly done at weekends which allowed me to do the ones for the smaller briefs quite early on

- The larger briefs were spread out across a few moths so that they could be chipped at over the course of the module alongside other modules

- For smaller briefs setting a time limit and structuring the days for each part of the design process meant equal time was spent on each aspect.

Planning through the months:

- Planning was much looser in December and January as this was mainly spent researching for 505 however weekends were spent working on Responsive

- February / March was spent juggling design work for both 505 and 503. To do this 503 was mainly done on Wednesdays and weekends whilst 505 was done on Mondays, Tuesdays and Fridays. 

- On Wednesdays met with my collaboration to work on Studio Brief 2 allowing us a week between meetings to make progress on things and catch up. 

- March was much more structured as this was more geared towards the Responsive Submission. Documenting all workshop slots in the last few weeks was central in helping work out what and when things were going to be done.

- The last week and half before the deadline was set aside for the production of the two larger briefs, this just about allowed space for mistakes and problems in the process, allowing them to be rectified.