Reflection:
In terms of organisation for this project, I can recognise that I was quite disorganised in my approach to creating content and writing posts. This made the process overwhelming and I found it difficult to start. Initially I wrote the first 3 posts in order and started quite well and then I ended up at a stage where I’d started all of the remaining posts and some of the multimedia content but nothing was completed. This left me feeling that I didn’t know what to complete first and made the project as whole seem unachievable.
From this experience, I will ensure with future projects such as this, I will take a more methodical approach, to ensure that the work remains organised and the process is less daunting. A lot of time was likely wasted due to using such a chaotic method for completing work and I will ensure for future practice, I try and keep a more organised approach.
Another aspect of the project that could be improved is my time management. Due to other work that needed completing, I was spending large amounts of time at once on this project, which meant by the end of the day, my work was of a lesser quality and I felt burned out.
To prevent this in the future, I could use a Gantt chart to track and predict my progress.
This would allow me to plan my work effectively into manageable chunks, preventing long stretches of work and therefore burn out.
Within this project, I used a few programs I haven’t used before; such as After Effects and Character Animator. I really enjoyed learning how to use these programs and implementing their capabilities into my work.
In the future I will allocate more time into learning new programs in between projects, so I have an awareness of the possibilities for projects based on the programs I know.
The future of Living with ADHD?
If I’d had more time on this project I would have used Google Analytics to understand more about my target audience and I would expand the brand to cover other conditions, such as autism or schizophrenia.
I would spend time in user testing to ensure the aims for the brand are being met and then alter the content/design accordingly.
The brand could then expand into educating in schools and workplaces, to increase the awareness of the general public.
I would also consider how working with a developer on the website could be beneficial in terms of making the site more interactive. This could include a live number for the amount of people with ADHD and the use of virtual reality to create a more realistic ADHD simulator.
Reference list
Project Manager (2022). Ultimate Guide to Gantt Charts. [online] ProjectManager. Available at: https://www.projectmanager.com/guides/gantt-chart.