I use design cycle for the project including making a poster, a leaflet, and a spreadsheet of Rollercoaster Tycoon. I find it saving my time when I break down work according to the design cycle. My overall objective is to attract visitors to come to my park while it still ensures the constant profit I will get. Particularly, my aim for the poster is to advertise my park, for the leaflet is to give visitors more information, and for the spreadsheet is to balance the money I spend on the park.
To do the poster, I was brainstorming some ideas. Before doing that, I have searched on the internet to find the best way to build a poster. I found some more ideas to make my poster better. First, it is suggested that eye-catching things never fail to attract visitors’ attention (color, pictures, drawings, unusual shape, etc.). Second, it’s more attractive with colors. Third, you have to make sure that your spelling is correct and it is the most important idea . When I had collected information, I started to decide what I should do for my poster. Visitors I am in favor of are mostly children, so I made it colorful and simple. Besides, I used some cute pictures even for my logo to attract their attention. I like this idea because it didn’t cost me a lot of money to do it. It is also suitable for my age, so I find it easy doing this. Then, I started to create the poster. I think I didn’t work hard because my poster doesn’t look very good. The colors don’t blend with each other and it’s not creative at all. I already gave it to my friends. They commented that it was ok but not good enough. They suggested me to use the color wheel to choose suitable colors.
What makes a good leaflet? technically, I think the leaflet size should not be too small or too big because we should make sure that it is easy to be carried around without feeling burden. Besides, I believe large pictures can hold visitors’ attention and prevent them from throwing it away. However, the most important thing is that the information in the poster must be concise and easy to understand to avoid the boredom. I put lots of pictures in there and it shows the information through the pictures. I wrote my information by using an easy fonts and colors. My friends gave me some ideas to make it more beautiful such as using green for the letters and purple for the background to make it suitable. I want visitors to understand more about my park so I give some information but not much. At first, I did it with Publisher but it couldn’t embed so I copied it to Power Point. This leaflet is not attractive and not very useful to young children even it’s colorful. If the adults read it, I think they will like it because they always want to know more information about the park like “save or not?”.
I had kept thinking for a while how to make a spreadsheet because apparently it’s totally new for me. As a result, I collected the information from both my family and internet. First, I was advised that all titles for columns and rows should be in bold font for it is easy to read. Certainly, the accuracy is the priority when doing this, so I was very careful to avoid any mistakes, though the smallest. This is
the first time I used Excel but I think it’s very helpful when we calculate. I am like the manager of this park who control the park. I had to calculate the total income of the park using the formula SUM and IF statement. Before I calculated the total, I had to predict the number of people would come to the park. This amount of people would change the number of foods or and drinks. Goal Seek is an example that could change this number. I plugged numbers into the spreadsheet and calculate. Besides, I can know that the park makes profit or loss.
This is the first I did it, so I still have some troubles . I didn’t manage time well. I spent too much time in some unnecessary parts while spending less time in other ones. Next time, I think I should balance the time between each part. Moreover, sometimes my aims are not realistic enough and above my ability, so I couldn’t do well on what I intended. I think working on this project is helpful. It helps me solve problems I meet when doing other projects, though they might be difficult for me. Everything will be easier if I can break down work to do things step by step.
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