my newsfeed on Facebook and I found our
to this event that was happening in New
York so it was the IHC a student design
challenge being held by a ton so I
didn’t really have time at the moment to
you know check this out so what I did
was I forward to the link to as Hulya so
they could tell me what it was all about
I was actually very busy at the moment
so I’ve been checking myself so three
days later events tells me that he had
applied to the event and we’re going to
New York and I was like okay but since I
didn’t really see the competition let me
tell me exactly what we’re going to have
to do in this you like yeah that’s where
the bad news comes in he said this is
not an engineering design competition
this is an interaction design
competition for those of you who don’t
know interaction design is a pure fine
art which I know very little about it so
I actually got the chance to go to New
York and I was alone there because a
vestment company because of personal
reasons so there I was alone and when I
met the other finalists I want to you
know feel them out as well like what
kind of competition I’m up against so
these are all really talented and really
nice individuals from all around the
world representing great universities
like the Royal College barks New York
University the Institute of Design and
Omiya so we met we were doing this
little icebreaker session I wanted to
see you know where everyone is at what
is their level so this started talking
like I’m only a first semester student
we’re the only
freshman’s here I’m a fourth semester
student so I was feeling pretty
confident which is a challenge thing to
do first of all I would like I graduate
I can totally take on these kids right
well wrong turns out they’re masters
students in design in interaction design
the exact field which I had applied now
I have an electrical engineer I’m only
like a part-time visual designer so this
was going to be a real challenge for me
and later on I found out that we were
not going to present our project there
we’re going to present all the things
while the advancements that make on top
of that project that we learned from
this conference so I was obviously
worried I don’t prepare for this so I
asked him what format you get presented
and they said you’re going to have to
make a video because you’re all
containers now I don’t have a problem
with video or geography but the problem
of the each and every one of these
amazing talented individuals and not a
MacBook
a MacBook Pro and the DSLR hopital
dslr’s with multiple lenses lots of
tripods and those slaggy things you know
which do them awesome cinematographic
so and guess what I had I had the
prime-minister laptop
yeah so the pregnancy level is a great
lap though I mean it’s tendon life but
bestest about it so I don’t know our
camera I just had my phone with me and I
was like okay it’s time to improvise I
can do this and so during the conference
the first two days we had to actually
brainstorm I our idea and how we can
improve its interaction design to
attraction design is how people interact
with different products different
services what their experiences and
there’s actually really great designer
Brendan and what we did is that we made
like a chart with post-it notes
so we sure are you can say a thought
process make sure our thought process
how we can make the device better how we
can make the impression design better so
we came up with this this is actually
the original design of our device as you
can see it’s really clunky there’s
several modules and each of them require
a particular setup so what we did is
that we designed asleep so everything is
in place and you know the whole thing a
whole experience of putting on this
device is actually pretty you know
smooth and streamlined just take the
device and your word and you put it off
turn it off and that really take care of
everything so this is where the
interesting part comes in so on I
believe it was the 7th of February at
3:00 p.m. all the brainstorming sessions
were over so they told us you have
exactly 24 hours well I guess finally
two hours to make the video or the
presentation and send it to us so I told
the chair that I don’t have her laptop
right now could you like help me out or
something he’s like you can just make a
PDF now I know I wasn’t going to win
using a PDF but it was better than
nothing
right so at 3 p.m. I had to you know
start making the video so since we were
using sleeves in our design
Google EE the I’ve seen the closes Nike
store when they’re got two sleeves and
went back to the hotel at around I
believe for him where my roommate who
was also a finalist people sleeping so I
was like really scornful at that time I
have you know when he looked at me and
then asleep
I’m like you’re either the best designer
in the world or you don’t care about the
competition and he’s like I’m just tired
man I just need to get some rest
walk I was like that’s a great idea I
thought as well so it’s 12 now and I
wake up and I realized the video I had
to make so I actually started a turn on
my laptop and started making into
designs which I could put in my video
and then at one I just wanted to get a
little air so I wrote down the receptor
I’m like receptionist’s are very nice so
maybe I can use him as an actor right I
go up to him I sex plane my whole idea
loves it but he doesn’t want to be in
the video he says maybe my colleague on
top I asked her I asked his colleague
and she says that what exactly would I
have to do I have made this a little I
told it this is you your hand is shaking
your said everybody else is not put on
this device and you know it’s gonna be
great after that with your hands on
shape so we actually have to show the
concept of the device so this would have
been in an appropriate way to do it so
what we did is that she chose T them
that she can shoot the video but I
shouldn’t do an arm break I’m like when
is your break she said 3:00 a.m. I say
okay let’s do it
I go back to my room and I make this
whole storyboard where I like where the
camera will go how it will you know and
around and show our emotions to really
get that you know emotional
joy so at 3 it was actually raining at
that time animals like the temperatures
are around zero those things so what
happened then was I go down an and a
jacket and a muffler so I go up to the
receptionist and he starts laughing at
me and Confused naturally I’m like right
Lenny he says where are you doing I’m
saying I guess we would have to go out
we shouldn’t we new clothes again
shoot in the world practices and he’s he
laughs again and I really don’t
understand that you then the woman comes
out the one who’s gonna be in the video
and she says again first of all she
laughs as well and then she says what
are you going and I’m just confused I’m
like is there something that I
misunderstood it and she’s like ah we
can’t make the video and I say why why
why would you do that because I’m not
really comfortable leaving the hotel
premises and I couldn’t really even say
anything to that because I just met
those two so I’m like it’s okay I go
back up to my hotel room and I’m so
angry I just start throwing things
around soft egg bobby’s I don’t want
them to show up on my incidentals so at
3 p.m. I decide I’m gonna use a comic
style and I’m just gonna use PDF I think
you might have seen cyanide and
Happiness I guess that’s kind of
inspired by that so I was like I’m going
to make not a video but a slideshow and
maybe that will work out
so I started looking to start making
these you could say comic panels and
they were like 30 of them that I decide
on and then I later realized that my
battery was down on my lap oh I hope my
charger I don’t have my chart
so turned on I left it at the menu so I
only had one and a half hours of battery
to make you know like everything at
least until 8 o’clock – so I can put it
on my laptop way I sketch exactly what I
have to put on the comments right and
then I just quickly open my lab them to
start working out of the 30 frames I’m
able to create like 16 or 18 of them and
then it’s 6 o’clock so I think I could
get some sleep because I’m not going to
be presenting a video I’m gonna be on
stage presenting myself so I sleep and
what and you know at 8 o’clock I believe
I reached the venue because that’s the
time it opens so I complete the waiting
for my charger on now Adobe the ones who
make Photoshop Illustrator Sarah they
were actually sponsoring this event – so
they had this you could say Wi-Fi thing
going so I connect into that Wi-Fi and
those people realize that my software
was region-locked
so my my sovereignly said I’m going to
be remote and you cannot save or export
anything and I was just like confused
because now my software was like but it
just got stuck and then I tried doing
something my computer restarted and when
I opened it up everything was gone
everything I created was gone so it was
[Music]
so at this point of your video
to give up I literally stopped thinking
about the solution of the problem I
started thinking about the mistakes I
did in my life so I put my laptop in
flight mode started it turns out I can
still get you know one image out at a
time so by 1/3 it just makes something
in this portion I’m like him bill and
you know I’m just gonna present and
viable so this isn’t me present you can
see thank you so much because I usually
smile over neighbors and not this time
so and you know after all this that I’ve
been through in the beaver I think one
of the most stressful days of my life so
after doing that I didn’t really
expecting I was just happy that I
represented I didn’t come up with
nothing because that was what’s going to
happen I didn’t do all that but I got
her place globally so
and yeah so that was actually one of the
most interesting experiences that I’ve
had and moving on this is something that
happened recently is that I couldn’t be
there
unfortunately but the thing about this
particular event was that the
competition this one was MIT you know
you guys know MIT right MIT Stanford
University Virginia Tech UC Berkeley
University of Waterloo
those were our competitors groom from
nothing so it really expected since I
was home I was like sleeping at that
time and I get a call on Facebook but
hey we won like yeah sure no one
actually won it was a boy so I was just
like prepping for the PR then but this
was actually a great experience as well
you know we’ve got to represent Pakistan
and Stanford and you know the people
from what I’ve been told
just when these guys pulled out the
flags everybody like like God and all
that stuff they really loved it so the
whole point of me talking about these
two events is that they’re going to be a
lot of you know struggles and stuff in
life but think about struggles that when
you go through it I think you become a
much better person
to this event that was happening in New
York so it was the IHC a student design
challenge being held by a ton so I
didn’t really have time at the moment to
you know check this out so what I did
was I forward to the link to as Hulya so
they could tell me what it was all about
I was actually very busy at the moment
so I’ve been checking myself so three
days later events tells me that he had
applied to the event and we’re going to
New York and I was like okay but since I
didn’t really see the competition let me
tell me exactly what we’re going to have
to do in this you like yeah that’s where
the bad news comes in he said this is
not an engineering design competition
this is an interaction design
competition for those of you who don’t
know interaction design is a pure fine
art which I know very little about it so
I actually got the chance to go to New
York and I was alone there because a
vestment company because of personal
reasons so there I was alone and when I
met the other finalists I want to you
know feel them out as well like what
kind of competition I’m up against so
these are all really talented and really
nice individuals from all around the
world representing great universities
like the Royal College barks New York
University the Institute of Design and
Omiya so we met we were doing this
little icebreaker session I wanted to
see you know where everyone is at what
is their level so this started talking
like I’m only a first semester student
we’re the only
freshman’s here I’m a fourth semester
student so I was feeling pretty
confident which is a challenge thing to
do first of all I would like I graduate
I can totally take on these kids right
well wrong turns out they’re masters
students in design in interaction design
the exact field which I had applied now
I have an electrical engineer I’m only
like a part-time visual designer so this
was going to be a real challenge for me
and later on I found out that we were
not going to present our project there
we’re going to present all the things
while the advancements that make on top
of that project that we learned from
this conference so I was obviously
worried I don’t prepare for this so I
asked him what format you get presented
and they said you’re going to have to
make a video because you’re all
containers now I don’t have a problem
with video or geography but the problem
of the each and every one of these
amazing talented individuals and not a
MacBook
a MacBook Pro and the DSLR hopital
dslr’s with multiple lenses lots of
tripods and those slaggy things you know
which do them awesome cinematographic
so and guess what I had I had the
prime-minister laptop
yeah so the pregnancy level is a great
lap though I mean it’s tendon life but
bestest about it so I don’t know our
camera I just had my phone with me and I
was like okay it’s time to improvise I
can do this and so during the conference
the first two days we had to actually
brainstorm I our idea and how we can
improve its interaction design to
attraction design is how people interact
with different products different
services what their experiences and
there’s actually really great designer
Brendan and what we did is that we made
like a chart with post-it notes
so we sure are you can say a thought
process make sure our thought process
how we can make the device better how we
can make the impression design better so
we came up with this this is actually
the original design of our device as you
can see it’s really clunky there’s
several modules and each of them require
a particular setup so what we did is
that we designed asleep so everything is
in place and you know the whole thing a
whole experience of putting on this
device is actually pretty you know
smooth and streamlined just take the
device and your word and you put it off
turn it off and that really take care of
everything so this is where the
interesting part comes in so on I
believe it was the 7th of February at
3:00 p.m. all the brainstorming sessions
were over so they told us you have
exactly 24 hours well I guess finally
two hours to make the video or the
presentation and send it to us so I told
the chair that I don’t have her laptop
right now could you like help me out or
something he’s like you can just make a
PDF now I know I wasn’t going to win
using a PDF but it was better than
nothing
right so at 3 p.m. I had to you know
start making the video so since we were
using sleeves in our design
Google EE the I’ve seen the closes Nike
store when they’re got two sleeves and
went back to the hotel at around I
believe for him where my roommate who
was also a finalist people sleeping so I
was like really scornful at that time I
have you know when he looked at me and
then asleep
I’m like you’re either the best designer
in the world or you don’t care about the
competition and he’s like I’m just tired
man I just need to get some rest
walk I was like that’s a great idea I
thought as well so it’s 12 now and I
wake up and I realized the video I had
to make so I actually started a turn on
my laptop and started making into
designs which I could put in my video
and then at one I just wanted to get a
little air so I wrote down the receptor
I’m like receptionist’s are very nice so
maybe I can use him as an actor right I
go up to him I sex plane my whole idea
loves it but he doesn’t want to be in
the video he says maybe my colleague on
top I asked her I asked his colleague
and she says that what exactly would I
have to do I have made this a little I
told it this is you your hand is shaking
your said everybody else is not put on
this device and you know it’s gonna be
great after that with your hands on
shape so we actually have to show the
concept of the device so this would have
been in an appropriate way to do it so
what we did is that she chose T them
that she can shoot the video but I
shouldn’t do an arm break I’m like when
is your break she said 3:00 a.m. I say
okay let’s do it
I go back to my room and I make this
whole storyboard where I like where the
camera will go how it will you know and
around and show our emotions to really
get that you know emotional
joy so at 3 it was actually raining at
that time animals like the temperatures
are around zero those things so what
happened then was I go down an and a
jacket and a muffler so I go up to the
receptionist and he starts laughing at
me and Confused naturally I’m like right
Lenny he says where are you doing I’m
saying I guess we would have to go out
we shouldn’t we new clothes again
shoot in the world practices and he’s he
laughs again and I really don’t
understand that you then the woman comes
out the one who’s gonna be in the video
and she says again first of all she
laughs as well and then she says what
are you going and I’m just confused I’m
like is there something that I
misunderstood it and she’s like ah we
can’t make the video and I say why why
why would you do that because I’m not
really comfortable leaving the hotel
premises and I couldn’t really even say
anything to that because I just met
those two so I’m like it’s okay I go
back up to my hotel room and I’m so
angry I just start throwing things
around soft egg bobby’s I don’t want
them to show up on my incidentals so at
3 p.m. I decide I’m gonna use a comic
style and I’m just gonna use PDF I think
you might have seen cyanide and
Happiness I guess that’s kind of
inspired by that so I was like I’m going
to make not a video but a slideshow and
maybe that will work out
so I started looking to start making
these you could say comic panels and
they were like 30 of them that I decide
on and then I later realized that my
battery was down on my lap oh I hope my
charger I don’t have my chart
so turned on I left it at the menu so I
only had one and a half hours of battery
to make you know like everything at
least until 8 o’clock – so I can put it
on my laptop way I sketch exactly what I
have to put on the comments right and
then I just quickly open my lab them to
start working out of the 30 frames I’m
able to create like 16 or 18 of them and
then it’s 6 o’clock so I think I could
get some sleep because I’m not going to
be presenting a video I’m gonna be on
stage presenting myself so I sleep and
what and you know at 8 o’clock I believe
I reached the venue because that’s the
time it opens so I complete the waiting
for my charger on now Adobe the ones who
make Photoshop Illustrator Sarah they
were actually sponsoring this event – so
they had this you could say Wi-Fi thing
going so I connect into that Wi-Fi and
those people realize that my software
was region-locked
so my my sovereignly said I’m going to
be remote and you cannot save or export
anything and I was just like confused
because now my software was like but it
just got stuck and then I tried doing
something my computer restarted and when
I opened it up everything was gone
everything I created was gone so it was
[Music]
so at this point of your video
to give up I literally stopped thinking
about the solution of the problem I
started thinking about the mistakes I
did in my life so I put my laptop in
flight mode started it turns out I can
still get you know one image out at a
time so by 1/3 it just makes something
in this portion I’m like him bill and
you know I’m just gonna present and
viable so this isn’t me present you can
see thank you so much because I usually
smile over neighbors and not this time
so and you know after all this that I’ve
been through in the beaver I think one
of the most stressful days of my life so
after doing that I didn’t really
expecting I was just happy that I
represented I didn’t come up with
nothing because that was what’s going to
happen I didn’t do all that but I got
her place globally so
and yeah so that was actually one of the
most interesting experiences that I’ve
had and moving on this is something that
happened recently is that I couldn’t be
there
unfortunately but the thing about this
particular event was that the
competition this one was MIT you know
you guys know MIT right MIT Stanford
University Virginia Tech UC Berkeley
University of Waterloo
those were our competitors groom from
nothing so it really expected since I
was home I was like sleeping at that
time and I get a call on Facebook but
hey we won like yeah sure no one
actually won it was a boy so I was just
like prepping for the PR then but this
was actually a great experience as well
you know we’ve got to represent Pakistan
and Stanford and you know the people
from what I’ve been told
just when these guys pulled out the
flags everybody like like God and all
that stuff they really loved it so the
whole point of me talking about these
two events is that they’re going to be a
lot of you know struggles and stuff in
life but think about struggles that when
you go through it I think you become a
much better person
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