The day has arrived ... I collected all my research data, so now in the beautiful rules of qualitative research I may start coding. What is coding? Coding is like cleaning up your room, but then more fun [hmm...]. You take all your transscribed user tests and start to make order out of your data. Where does the sentence: "I get the idea that there are mostly examples on this website, that can be interesting" belong too? I grouped it within the catagory Cases, and that catagory belongs to the bigger catagory Information, and Information belongs to the catagory Design Criteria. Yes, sooooo nice putting stuff into the right boxes (and the right boxes in the right closet, and the right closet into the right room). 

So yeah, my table looks like this:

Now just getting it onto paper (or at least into my computer).  

 

 

 

I like these photo's; a speaker at the PCST (Public Communication of Science and Technology) conference used one of them to illustrate how she felt when she tried to make a change in a rigid bureaucratic system. 

Would you like to see some more? Google: Sumo boy little / Little guy sumo. Enjoy and use them wisely.

 

I hope so! That would be the best excuse for me to explain the mess on my desk ... Lets start cleaning

 

The official date is now ... (drums beating ...) 24th of August!! Yes, a month later, but everybody can be there, so it's wonderful. I'll go on holidays before, come back beautifully tanned (uhm ... like that will ever happen), relaxed and ready to present like I never did before.

The latest development, at the 30th one of my graduation supervisors is on holiday ... So ... Hmm ... What to do? 

 

 

 

A tip from me: arrange your green light & graduation date on time! Mine got rescheduled because not everybody could meet on my ideal date. Still it's ok; I was getting stressed out because I needed to do too much... now I've got some room to breath again. 

 

 

 

 

Wow, I made a planning. This might not be too remarkable for some people, but for me it's a giant step. Chaos runs my world, and that's the way I like it. But, because my heart raced everytime I thought "graduation is getting near" I decided to plan my next steps. 

I did do this in a 'Merel kind of way'. So lots of post-its ánd including a reward system. It shouldn't get too serious ofcourse. Now I have to run and start progressing the user tests I did, otherwise I'll get behind the planning allready at day one. Or is this how planning works? 

Yes, after 25 long hours bussing (my new cool word for sitting, sleeping, eating, watching, talking in a bus), we arrived in Florence. This week the PCST (Public Communication of Science and Technology) conference will take place, an event no science communication student should miss. A little warning from me, this week there probably will be no blogposts because I'm eating gelatto's (icescream) in the sun

I'm scared. I've got a date. A real one, it's in my agenda... the 20th of July. I really wanted a date, but now I have it, it feels scary. I've got so much stuff I need to do before the 20th! So, I'll stop talking about "this is scary"and transform it in my head into "this is great!". Wish me good luck!