This is the last week, I have a few things on my list to get things done, like touching up my CPJ and presentation, also finding a way on how I can explain my body of work and visual compendium.

I realised that it would be best that I put an explanation on what my project is about and another explanation for body of work and visual compendium, so I added this hover thing on

It is a good way cause users will probably be mistaken for those as a button.

Here is my Visual Compendium and Body of Works outcome

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Anyways, this week is the last week, and I have to do my presentation and finalize my CPJ. Other than that, I guess I’m doing okay. For this semester, though, I genuinely feel like I didn’t push myself enough to explore how text can appear differently onscreen. Most of what I did was just playing with simple text modifications—making the text move up and down or changing its size—and I know I could have done so much better. Looking back, it feels like I was constantly lost in my project, unsure of where I was going. Now, as I’m writing this in week 15, I wish I could go back and tell myself to experiment more freely, not just with text appearance but also with other tools or ideas. For example, I could have explored Webgazer earlier this semester instead of only discovering it when it was too late. It’s a bit sad, but I know I can pick it up during the December holidays and make up for lost time.

Once the holidays start, I plan to list out ideas and tools I can experiment with so I can go beyond just these initial attempts. I know this semester was really just the early stages of the project—getting to know the concept better and experimenting—but I can’t help feeling like I could have done more. I think part of the problem was how I spent so much time in the early weeks researching the history of the keyboard. While that background knowledge is important, I should have done it before the semester started. I didn’t even figure out the direction of this project until weeks 4 or 5, and by then, I already had so much on my plate, like the industry module and the dissertation. It’s been hard to balance everything, and I hope next semester will feel more grounded.

Or maybe I wasn’t grounded enough this semester—not in the right way, at least. I focused so much on playing with text that I didn’t explore other interactions or possibilities. My whole project is about typing, so I could’ve added something like eye interactions with typing to make it more engaging. I need to expand the scope of what I’m doing and push myself to incorporate more dimensions into the project. The design also needs work—I definitely don’t want the project to look the way it does now, so researching better visual design approaches will be another priority. Once the holidays begin, I’ll take the time to list everything I want to do with this project. I don’t want all this work to go to waste because I see potential in what I’ve started, even if I didn’t accomplish as much as I wanted to this semester. That’s all for now—thank you, Vikas.