In the interview, I ask some of the personal questions and fun questions to my partner, because I need to understand him and know him well to design a special artifact that represents to him. The question that I ask him, it brings out his personality and behavior in the society or world. In the other hand, my partner, he asks me some of the questions that have some of the similar questions like mine, but the answer will be different because both we have different view or idea. Some of the questions that he asks me is “what kind of question that you ask yourself every day? Why?” This question very interesting to me and let me think very deeply about myself. Everyone in their daily will not often ask self a question and what he/she will do in a day. I respond to this question is how can I to be great than the past? This question over and over in my head, I feel this question didn’t have a specific answer of this question in my mind, due to having multiple answers that different moment or mood changes my answer. The second question makes me feel curious is “how many times a day do you look at yourself in the mirror?” I didn’t count how many times when I am looking at the mirror, because sometimes I look at the mirror for fixing my outfit and sometimes I look at the mirror when wakeup or go to sleep. I think my partner asking me this question is wanting to know am I confidence person.
My partner, he talks about his hometown in China which near to the ocean. He grows up in a sea city call Ningbo. In that city, it maintains many of the histories of Southern China. For example, the building from the past is the black roof and white wall. It was very different than in Northern China. In this knowledgeable city, he learns a lot of history and living habit. He likes to be social with others because he thinks a friend can help him a lot in a different situation. In his word “Friend is a person or a group of people who can play around and know you a lot different view than you in your family.” For example, if you have a difficult situation in school or outside, they can help you right away. However, when he faces some of the problems that a friend can’t help him. His strategy of solving question is to be “calm down”. Calm down makes the best way to think logic and carefully when he has trouble. He likes to wear a suit because he feels this can makes others think he is professional and looks good fit of his body. In addition, it relates to his major – strategic design and management. This major relates to his personality, such as he likes to be social with people can like to wear a suit as a businessman. When he comes to the USA, he didn’t know a lot of stuff in America. However, his holster parent treats him as their own kid which build up a good memory when he comes to the United State. The city – New York means to him as “New World” because, in New York, he feels very curious about different things and makes a lot of friend from a different country. As he answers to my question, I feel I have many ideas
pop out from my head to design a unique artifact to represent him.
The artifact that I create a symbol of my partner is a paper coffee cup. The coffee cup symbol as he likes to be social. The outlay of the cup has multiple numbers to represent him like math. In addition, the cupholder will laser a poem by his favorite author from China. On the top of straw has a number three as his lucky number. The cup can’t open, and it will release many worlds language word from inside to side. The straw will be close can’t take up. Moreover, the interior of the coffee cup will put some of LEGO to symbols as his childhood.
Question list:
- What is your background? How this background makes you be proud of?
- When you as a child, what are some of the things that you want to accomplish or achieve? Such toy? Game?
- Do you like to be social? Why?
- When you have some of the difficult situations happen to you, what are some things or strategy help you resolve the problem?
- What kind of style do you like to wear? Why? Color?
- What are some experience or stories that happen to you when you come to the USA?
- What is New York mean to you?
- If you won the lottery, what is the first thing you like to do? Why?
- What is your favorite food? Any story behind?
- When you graduate from college, what is your next step?