During this teamworking experience I felt like I learnt a lot about working with others. To start, I hadn’t worked with the majority of my group members before this project so I had to get to know them and figure out the project at the same time. I found throughout this project it was easiest to do both of those things with strong communication channels in place, working together online requires extra effort on the part of each party to communicate effectively. I think that this teamworking experience taught me a lot about the importance of communication and how best to interact with others in the group through our discord channel, it was most effective to relay important information over the weekly voice calls as replies were guaranteed instantly and feedback could be given and built upon as a team.
I also learned from this project how important it is to plan things and keep organised. Making sure that I had tasks I was required to complete and rough deadlines for when these needed to be completed helped keep me accountable for my part in the project and producing my work. I produced numerous logo designs, posters and banners for the project within the deadlines I had set myself. I also learnt within the design process of the project, that it is best to make a few different ideas for logos for a brand so that your team has some to decide from and you give yourself the creative freedom to play around with a design and get something that fits the brand well. This also applies to general design work and has made me more mindful of playing with multiple designs over just using one and working on that.
I do think that the teamworking experience was really useful to me as a designer as I haven’t had much opportunity to work with others on design projects and it is really helpful to get the input and insight of other individuals as they can offer differing perspectives to the work you make and really help to push a design further. I think that the team setting has also allowed me to work on my time management and planning skills as the work took a lot of planning to decide who was going to take on which tasks and how it was all going to be completed for the deadline.