The FRECH Team

Wow we're done. We just uploaded our paper, right on time at 01:59. Or 9:59 Australian time. We wouldn't have thought that we would actually be able to work all the time without any bigger breaks. First takeaway: Tired, but happy! Now we'll be off and get some sleep. And then patiently wait for the results. See you then! Good night!

Our video finally uploaded! Yaaay!! :D Here it is! Enjoy!

It got dark now here in Germany. While others are going to bed, we are getting our heads deep into the paper. The video is currently uploading into our Drive, before it's going to be published on YouTube. Really looking forward to it! :-) However, the paper is turning out to be quite a challenge. We are discussing some sentences word by word, just to get out the best we can manage. Special thanks to our American, Evan, on the team, because he can check all our spelling mistakes :D And we're also really anticipating the results of mini challenge 3! Hopefully they are coming soon. Really wanna know if we did well there...

We're now having a little break for dinner and having pizza! Greetings to Raquel, who's sitting in Spain and has to watch us eating ;-)

After having finished the filming we're now already almost done with the editing of our video. The paper is also in the doing, but still has to be worked on. We've been working now for about 12 hours without more than 5minute-breaks in between, so we start to feel kinda brainwashed now. I'm pretty amazed how fast the time went by! But still more than 7 hours to go...

We were hurrying to finish the storyboard in time for Mini Challenge 3, but managed it luckily. Now we're enjoying some brownies and fruits while planning our video and paper! Prototyping is also currently being done and will hopefully be finished soon!

Here is our storyboard. Description Storyboard Margaret often cooks too much for herself and does not want to waste food. Luiz is busy studying and has no time to cook. Margaret uses our food sharing app and offers a free meal to the community. Luiz sees Margaret's meal and accepts it. A delivery drone picks up the meal from Margaret and sends it to Luiz. Luiz enjoys the meal and sends a thank you message to Margaret. Margaret is happy that her meal is appreciated.

After filling the walls with sticky notes and discussing for a while, we'd like to introduce you to our personas Margaret and Luiz! After this we are moving on to the storyboard for the 3rd Mini Challenge. Looks like we are catching up whith AEST!!

While it's getting late afternoon in Australia, it's 9am in Germany, so time for breakfast! Thanks to Caros parents for helping with the food! Brainstorming on what we could do is going on in the meantime...

We're now trying to define our problem. So we're busy putting sticky notes on, well, a picture. Don't have a whiteboard over here :D

We started a little later than the other groups, but that's due to our time zone. In Germany the topic was posted at 2am and we didn't really see a way to get up at that time without being a zombie! We'll see in the next hours, if that was wise or not... Now we're already 2 hours into the competition, reading the papers given to us, filling in a google sheet to collaborate. We've got some amount of coffee and Mate already, and soon it's going to be time for breakfast over here. We're gonna start ideating now. See you!

Just 2 more hours until the challenge starts.  We are going to work from Germany and Spain, and this means that for us the challenge starts at 2am... so we'd better get some sleep before the time comes! No worries, our supplies of chocolate, drinks, sticky notes and markers are ready!

FRECH - that's us, five students from the University of Rhine-Waal in Kamp-Lintfort, Germany: Fahmida Zahan (Bangladesh) Raquel Olarte (Spain) Evan Burton (US) Carolin Meier (Germany) Hadi Skeini (Germany) While we have different cultural and disciplinary backgrounds, we all decided to study the Master program Usability Engineering. We joined this competition, because we are always up to a challenge! And we still want to learn how to create great UX and there's no better way to learn it than to simply do it! So we simply use any opportunity to do it. So we're absolutely looking forward to get our heads into it, being creative and put sticky notes everywhere! And now we feel ready for this challenge, although not that ready for the little amount of sleep we'll get. But anyway, let's do it!