After 2 years of work, I deeply realized that the fierce competition in the construction industry is nothing new, like the urban and rural planning and design I am engaged in, many times even if I want to work calmly, I will be unconsciously forced to participate in the involution, not only with excellent newcomers, but also with more experienced people in the industry.
Considering that the development space cannot break through the ceiling, it can only start from other aspects.
For example, the → of academic qualifications.
Another example is the new knowledge of other majors→ cross-professional learning.
Preparing for graduate school vs preparing to study abroad
In fact, when I first thought about improving my academic qualifications, my first thought was to go to graduate school, and I quickly entered a state of preparation. Decide on the school and major first:.
It can be searched from the official website, in addition to the unified examination English and politics, the test content of the two professional courses is mainly based on theoretical answers, and the content related to hand-drawn quick questions will only be involved in the re-examination.
See the architecture exhibition in Shanghai
In line with the principle of passing one pass first, just looking at the preliminary examination arrangement, the content of the exam is basically equivalent to the content of my 4 years of undergraduate science, plus 2 years of relevant work experience, I think, as long as I seriously learn the content of the exam category and memorize the knowledge points of the answers, it should become.
But students who are concerned about the postgraduate entrance examination should have heard more or less that the Tongji score line paper is becoming more and more exaggerated year by year, in addition to competing with the "volume king" of its own school, there are many students who are experienced in World War II and World War III, and their strength should not be underestimated.
Experience tie-dye in Yunnan~
Therefore, the year of the graduate school entrance examination ended like swallowing dates, and I was depressed for a few days after the exam results came out, and then I naturally thought of studying abroad and found Hanyi.
Compared with preparing for the graduate school entrance examination, applying for study abroad also needs to determine the direction first. For example, in the first class of the appointment, he asked me to find more topics first, and after I had something practical to discuss, I would decide the next course schedule and project specialization direction together.
Finally, after discussing with Mr. Xu, from the dozen themes I found, the four items in the portfolio were roughly positioned in four areas related to pets, safety, medical care, and urban space.
However, after actually getting ready, although I had taken some Google UX courses on my own in my spare time, and had a basic concept of user experience and interaction-related project processes, I still had to work on the portfolio when it was time to get started.
In addition to the space design that I am good at, it also involves the interactive product design related to MR glasses, as well as other product designs in the immersive scene, which is a very unfamiliar field for me, and I was stuck here for several days without a clue.
Projects related to the theme of "safety" (some portfolios shared)
Fortunately, with Mr. Xu's professional guidance, he first guided me to observe the form, function, and current development of these products in daily life, and then think about what kind of updates I need to make and what methods to update. It is equivalent to standing on the "height" of existing products and then developing my own design, which gives me a lot of inspiration.
Work Project vs Study Abroad Portfolio
From my undergraduate studies at Zhejiang University to my work in the past few years, I have been exposed to design content in the field of urban and rural planning. Urban-rural planning is very different from interaction design.
Urban and rural planning, to put it bluntly, is to make reasonable planning and design for the future development of urban or rural space, which is very macroscopic, but also visible but not touchable. Interaction is a kind of user-centered design, which allows people to interact with objects through interactive information, touch and use.
One of these two majors is applied in my previous work, and the other is in the portfolio of preparing for the application, so it can be said that the preliminary preparation and process of the plan are basically the same, for example, they need to start with project research and then do it step by step.
See the Architecture Show +1 in Shanghai
It is very easy to explain the output mode, such as the main thing that urban and rural planning majors do, and service interaction design may have etc. The form of the output is entirely two areas, and it takes time to learn from scratch.
When it comes to design thinking, the differences are reflected in the research phase at the beginning of the project.
Like before, the project research I came into contact with in my work mainly came from the information provided by Party A, and I almost didn't have to go out to conduct field research by myself, and I could push the project forward by looking at satellite maps and searching for relevant information in Baidu in the office. It can be said that the research part accounts for a small proportion of the overall project.
Draft notes for classes and projects
After going to Hanyi to prepare an interactive portfolio, you need a lot of detailed research. I first do second-hand research on the target group online, and according to the information and questions sorted out, I also need to design a questionnaire or interview questions, so as to get more detailed and accurate first-hand research.
I think, probably.
Puppy "photo deception"
And in addition, in the work, we pay more attention to the results of the project, and the main purpose is to meet the design requirements of "Party A's father" and the needs of market development. For the portfolio used to apply for further education, the study abroad tutor pays more attention to whether the design process can reflect the student's deeper thinking about a problem.
Offers don't come easily, so I've summarized some useful tips:
From the above, you should be able to see that after I quit to prepare for the domestic graduate school exam for a year, I started to prepare for the study abroad application for more than a year.
Therefore, to plan the time for the promotion of academic qualifications as much as possible, is what I want to advise you the most.
Of course, if it is, if you start in your freshman and sophomore year, you may be able to catch DDL more calmly in the end.
And students like me who are preparing after graduation will feel that the longer they are out of work, the greater the study pressure, especially when they first prepare for the graduate school entrance examination, they can be full of enthusiasm, and they can start their study plan on time and regularly every day, and with the "bitterness of studying" too much, plus the first year's hard work is 0, so when preparing for the study abroad application, I can obviously feel that my willpower is fading.
However, after coming to Hanyi, I also learned that when I was preparing for the graduate school entrance examination in the first year, I could actually take into account the application for studying abroad, like now some universities and art academies have successively launched the portfolio review mechanism, and both the graduate school entrance examination and the study abroad also have language ability tests.
In general, most of the content of the two can overlap in preparation and review, as long as you understand the order of time and the difference in preparation content between graduate school entrance examination and study abroad application, then
Projects related to the theme of "Pets" (some of the works are shared)
But then again, I had to wait a long time preparing for my study abroad application, and another reason was that I was more perfectionist, and I often got stuck in "where my portfolio is not good enough" and "where can I continue to improve".
It's not that you don't need to adjust and improve the portfolio project after it's done, but you don't have to be too rigid about it, after all, people's ideas will always change with the insights in life, so now it seems to me that as long as you make 100% effort for the application project within the specified time, you still try to rush the first batch of DDL, as soon as possible.
Unless there is a force majeure factor, but only if enough effort has been made during this time.
The prototype of the "Pets" themed project - oranges
In addition, I would like to share one more thing that you don't have to "listen to the school" too much.
The official website of Aida says that you don't need to submit a portfolio, so you really don't submit it, I don't know what will happen. In this case, in fact, you can make a link to the portfolio and put it in the essay, or submit it as a plus, I believe that no tutor will refuse to take the initiative to show their own strength.
Finally, I hope that these application experiences can help you, and I hope that my next journey to study abroad will be smooth.
Let's Fight!~