{"id":758,"date":"2017-01-18T07:45:56","date_gmt":"2017-01-18T07:45:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/digicivics-at-apl\/?p=758"},"modified":"2019-02-26T12:07:34","modified_gmt":"2019-02-26T12:07:34","slug":"its-been-a-great-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/digicivics-at-apl\/2017\/01\/18\/its-been-a-great-time\/","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s been a great time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It has been our great honour to\u00a0have the opportunity to work on this project and we think it&#8217;s time to look back on the many\u00a0things we&#8217;ve achieved, together.<\/p>\n<p>When we were first assigned the project, we had no idea how to start. We didn&#8217;t know what the young people were after. Our team had to come together to explore and think about all possible options to set out a basic framework.<\/p>\n<p>Comparing with other teams, we&#8217;ve come a long way before we finally made the decision of what we were gonna do\u00a0&#8211; an educational app. It was late and so we were pushing the time limit a bit, too. With the invaluable input we received from our project partners, we&#8217;ve learnt, we&#8217;ve grown, we&#8217;ve refined, together.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_761\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-761\" style=\"width: 660px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/digicivics-at-apl\/files\/2017\/01\/Final-UI.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-761 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/digicivics-at-apl\/files\/2017\/01\/Final-UI-1024x353.png\" alt=\"New look\" width=\"660\" height=\"228\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/digicivics-at-apl\/files\/2017\/01\/Final-UI-1024x353.png 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/digicivics-at-apl\/files\/2017\/01\/Final-UI-300x103.png 300w, https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/digicivics-at-apl\/files\/2017\/01\/Final-UI-768x265.png 768w, https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/digicivics-at-apl\/files\/2017\/01\/Final-UI.png 1898w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 660px) 100vw, 660px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-761\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The bright new look!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>This is the final interface update we expect for now and it is based on the feedback we&#8217;ve got from our project partner. We&#8217;ve given it a bit more of character, we&#8217;ve got the street view and we&#8217;ve revamped the way it looks. We&#8217;re loving it and we hope you love it as much as we do.<\/p>\n<p>Another reason for us to celebrate the finish of this final Plan A Lot prototype is that it responses to our original intention naturally and successfully. It looks good and it is helping young people to learn about planning. We haven&#8217;t gone for the &#8216;hard-sell&#8217; tactics to get the idea of urban planning across, but it is working even\u00a0better than using the\u00a0&#8216;hard-sell&#8217; tactics. So yes, it really is something to celebrate.<\/p>\n<p>To us, we&#8217;ve given our best shot to this project. As much as we want to continue bringing\u00a0this project further, we&#8217;re afraid it has to come to a close at this stage. We&#8217;re committed and we still firmly believe that this project will really make a difference to the young people and we hope further developments would be considered by the relevant parties, but we regret to say that this\u00a0might not be something that&#8217;s within our ability today. Please allow us to say a massive &#8216;thank you&#8217; to you for being\u00a0part of our journey on Plan A Lot in the past three months.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/digicivics-at-apl\/files\/2017\/01\/JTCP2031-2017-1-8-Final-presentation.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-762\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/digicivics-at-apl\/files\/2017\/01\/JTCP2031-2017-1-8-Final-presentation-1024x709.png\" alt=\"Presentation visual\" width=\"660\" height=\"457\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/digicivics-at-apl\/files\/2017\/01\/JTCP2031-2017-1-8-Final-presentation-1024x709.png 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/digicivics-at-apl\/files\/2017\/01\/JTCP2031-2017-1-8-Final-presentation-300x208.png 300w, https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/digicivics-at-apl\/files\/2017\/01\/JTCP2031-2017-1-8-Final-presentation-768x532.png 768w, https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/digicivics-at-apl\/files\/2017\/01\/JTCP2031-2017-1-8-Final-presentation.png 1625w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 660px) 100vw, 660px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nP.S. Just before we go,\u00a0we&#8217;d like to let you know that we&#8217;ve actually done a presentation plus a write up\u00a0that chronicles the\u00a0processes we&#8217;ve gone through to produce\u00a0Plan A Lot. If you&#8217;re one of our project partners, you should have\u00a0received these items electronically already through Teresa, our very charming coordinator whom you really\u00a0should have\u00a0known by now. If you&#8217;ve never worked with us before but would still like an electronic copy as well as for all other enquiries, please email us at T[dot]Ho1[at]newcastle[dot]ac[dot]uk.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It has been our great honour to\u00a0have the opportunity to work on this project and we think it&#8217;s time to look back on the many\u00a0things we&#8217;ve achieved, together. When we were first assigned the project, we had no idea how to start. We didn&#8217;t know what the young people were after. Our team had to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/digicivics-at-apl\/2017\/01\/18\/its-been-a-great-time\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">It&#8217;s been a great time<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6570,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,25,13,35,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-758","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-design-stage","category-project-activities","category-reflection","category-team-6","category-visualising-and-prototyping"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/digicivics-at-apl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/758","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/digicivics-at-apl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/digicivics-at-apl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/digicivics-at-apl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6570"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/digicivics-at-apl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=758"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/digicivics-at-apl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/758\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":773,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/digicivics-at-apl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/758\/revisions\/773"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/digicivics-at-apl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=758"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/digicivics-at-apl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=758"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/digicivics-at-apl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}