This week Team KTRU worked on designing medium fidelity informational posters for both the DJ room and the vinyl room and sticker designs. For the posters in the DJ Room, our goal was to flesh out the content of the … Continue reading TEST: Team KTRU

On March 2nd, we had mid-semester review, a time for all DFA Rice groups to come together and present the progress made so far. Mid-semester review was not only a good time to reflect on the progress we made, but … Continue reading Mid-Semester Review: Team KTRU

This week, we began to ideate solutions and prepared for mid-semester review. We looked over the DJ’s survey responses in open studio and from there, we brainstormed possible concepts to move forward with. From the survey we gained important key … Continue reading IDEATE: Team KTRU

This week, team KTRU gained two major insights after immersing ourselves into problem. Our problem was rooted in both human and systematic issues. Human-Centered issue Vinyl Care Fragility of vinyl Special management for vinyl Training Process Generation to generation passage … Continue reading REFRAME: Team KTRU

We began this week by brainstorming potential assumptions about our problem, and identified potential key aspects of our problem space that would be worth investigating. Firstly, we believe that many DJs may feel intimidated to play vinyl mainly because of … Continue reading IDENTIFY: Team KTRU

Hello! We are Team KTRU, and we’re really excited to be working on a project tasked with improving vinyl play at Rice’s student radio station: KTRU 96.1. On the team is Taylan Tuncata (junior studying Cognitive Science and Film), Toprak … Continue reading INTRODUCE: Team KTRU