As Yen Trinh (accessed October 28, 2012) discusses in her
podcast, honest communication, trust and a comfortable relationship with your team
results in effective collaboration. Our group had a high level of trust and
honesty, due to the fact we were all friends (Lisa quickly slipped right into a
friend role with us from the get go) we had a highly comfortable and caring
relationship. Our communication was clear and definitive- even our tutors
pointed out that we executed it well. As Jim Grey (accessed October 28, 2012) mentioned
in his podcast interview, he has used tools like Dropbox to great effect
throughout a collaborative process. We found this to be very true as one of the
main reasons we succeeded was through keeping every document, file and image we
produced neatly on the file sharing network, Dropbox (set out week by week,
assessment by assessment). Also during the course of the project we made
timetable schedules to find out when we were free from other commitments to
work on elote.
We also used other communicative, collaborative tools like the
social networking site Facebook to our advantage. We set up a private group in
which we added our tutors and a contact we met during semester who taught us
how to cook elote. Every group was asked to make a Facebook group and add the
tutors so they could be involved but I feel like we would have done this
anyway. From an industrial design point of view, this is common practice with
every group assignment we as students or ”Millennials” (EDUCASE, 2012) tackle
and due to the growing influence of social networking (most notably Facebook of
course) this is something being used by not only all four of our design
disciplines but also in all collaboration settings (EDUCASE, 2012).
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