Mario, P1.1 Research/a

Choosing an audience and a theme

i found the whole process of coming up with a theme and choosing an audience for my calendar to be very challenging. the first thing i did was going online and take a look at different calendars to get an idea of what i needed to include in mine. then, i brainstormed with some of my classmates in order to come up with ideas about what we needed to include in our calendars. my first idea for this project was to elaborate a calendar based on the movement of the sun and the moon, a system that was used by the incas in south america. then, I thought of doing something more functional, something that everyone could use.

I started brainstorming about other possibilities and started thinking about reasons why people use calendars. one of the main reasons i came up with was that people use calendars so they can keep track of birthdays. to elaborate on this idea, i thought about what do people need to know about birthdays? how would the calendar work? what information can people add to it? ease of use, size, how to show it is a calendar just to write down birthdays and not other information?

now, i am developing a system that can show which month of the year it is and that let the user know where to write down the names. my main priority right now is to make the calendar as functional as possible so the user can easily access and add information to it.