Wednesday’s class was interesting and made me realize that we all think differently. Jimmy supplied us with a problem and, in a battle of the sexes fashion, we split up by gender and tried to find out what the next answer would be in the following sequence of numbers:
1
10
11
100
?????
10
11
100
?????
My first instinct was binary code which is a way of representing text in a computer processor through the use of 0s and 1s. Essentially, if one were to follow a logical pattern in the following sequence provided, it would be the next set of finite numbers that consist of only 1s, 0s, or both 1s and 0s (in this case 101). Although in my opinion we somewhat complicated our reasoning as to why the answer was 101, I felt that as a group we provided enough justification to get our message across.
The girls said the next answer was 111, and in a visual pattern this will work. Even if it wasn’t from a visual standpoint, the evidence they showed would still give us reason to believe that their answer could as well be correct. There is no geometric sequence in the following series, and therefore, a formula that’s easy to read using a1rn-1 would not be successful. The exercise made me realize that persuading a client is important in design and it is something that should not be taken lightly, as well as elevated vocabulary and effective communication.
After, we discussed our thoughts about John Coy’s presentation. Although we went around the room and talked about what we enjoyed most about the presentation and got a different perspective about it, my opinion still stands that his presentation was not interesting. His content, however, was great but his lack of planning clearly showed when it came down to the actual presentation. I did learn that the lack of planning really does make a difference and, like in the exercise we did today, communication is everything.
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