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I did a printout trail of my pages in a mini folded document. I laid out my pages on an A4 document and printed them to then be folded as a 10 page booklet. I lied the outcome of how all of the images appear together and how they follow on from one another I can't wait to see how this follows with textures and such in Riso. The only this I didn't like about this piece is her bulky the pages became and how hard it is to find the perfect folds so In my final I have decided to print the pages in more of a book style and bind just with staples.

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Mind-map of simple symbols that relate to my topic - things that are primarily involved in the UXUI design of messaging devices/apps.

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Rough spot drawings of me doing things as time moves and their is no response to messages.

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The phone keyboard as a potential page. I have intentionally changed the sizes of some of the keys and made them overlap to illustrate the confusion of a reply and having to type what you think and feel rather than just saying it to a person - it becomes permanent to be seen by anyone.

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Keyboard imagery again but various keyboards atop one another, again layering that confusion.

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Sketch of all of the positions my flat mates posed in for me to be able to understand the idiosyncrasies of each mundane position and things that we do constantly that never get any attention but are so relatable to not only everyone but specifically people of my age and demographic.

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STYLIST ARTICLE ON PHYSCHOLOGICAL CYCLE WHEN 'IGNORING' A TEXT

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STYLIST ARTICLE ON PHYSCHOLOGICAL CYCLE WHEN 'IGNORING' A TEXT

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I then looked a little into recent memes because although from experience with my own family I knew this wasn't just my problem  I wanted to figure out if this would be relevant to a wider audience, some of these memes that Ive found support the fact that it must be.

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Indesign, self authorship and publishing

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The bad effects of using smart phones and how they poorly affect things such as mental health, focus, producitvity. Furthering my argument of spending less time on your phone, therefore not being as readily available as possible to frequently or immidatley respond to messages.

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This article and its popularity made me feel that I wasn't alone and this was a common issue faced by a large number of the population. I also discovered that the things I did weren't necessarily conscious and that because of that I cannot necessarily be blamed for doing them. For example it talks about control - a point that I felt directly relates to me because quite often I will open my phone and see 888 messages from one group chat and 247 from another on WhatsApp, something that is obviously massively overwhelming. This then causes me to look at the notification and choose to ignoring It - knowing that I do not have the capacity to read and respond to all of the material in the group by taking my time to respond it allows me to take control of the situation and instead of missing out I can choose to disengage.

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I started by looking at  a lot of the things I had been doing/that interested me lately, like going out and doing stuff, the things I posted on social media in order to Raise awareness, messages and conversations I had been having.

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From this initial moodpboard I came to realise that one of the biggest things affecting me Currently and something I wanted to figure out within my work was my messages - and more importantly my lack of reply. Why this was happening and how I could resolve it or if I even needed to?

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a mind map of visual evidence to support the bad replying

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I want the visuals to be simple and personable but with layers of texture that give the pieces a deeper more realistic edge. Here are some examples from artists Phillipa Rice, Gracie Dahl.

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The opposing argument of how mobile phones can be good for you and how they are favoured amount general public, retiring me to my original question 'am I a bad person because I'm a bad replier?'

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A video I watched presented by an American life coach that although did not relate entirely to my topic because it was in relation to romantic relationships exclusivley, still talks about the psyche and full cycle of messages and replies. In this video Coach Corey explores the irresponsible narrative that 'everyone has the time to respond to texts' and that this is a high priority in everyones lives.

Not responding to peoples texts -- although something I partake in way too frequently is not a behaviour I could make sense of or that I saw as acceptable until I had a conversation with one of my tutors (Esther McManus) about the exhaustive nature of the group chat.... something that just shouldn't exist.

This expectancy for immediate repose is something that degrades the individuals life to only being on their phone and to always being readily available. Something that I find really interesting is how people understand the unrealistic nature of this in a physical expectancy - you can't go to A from G without prior notice. Yet they expect something somewhat synottomys to this - taking time out from any current undertaking or ask in order to respond to a message. Something that can interrupt your productivity and or flow state.

This video in summary affirms that your time is your own to do with as you wish and want, allowing you to make a choice as to your response time this being not only okay but normal.

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google response to weather being a bad replier is a condition or not, has over 1million hits - the most popular being around the psychology of bad repliers. This being at the top further affirms how common an issue this is and this is a topic that is current and is being researched.

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Here I asked my flatmates to pose for visual references of them doing everyday things around our flat. Some things that involve checking your phone and other average things, because I want my imagery to be ordinary and relatable.

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A print as a whole before it becomes individual pages. I like that this piece appears to have no chronological order whatsoever and just involves those simple everyday things all of us do. The issue with this kind of print would be how to turn this into individual zine pages, because to take individual spot illustrations to each page would be to take away the lack of chronology - unless I was to repeat some and do a number of pages to continue this confusion. Although this may make it less visually ingaging.

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Further development looking at individual pages and a conversation between two people, but ultimately its not a functioning conversation because the other person isn't replying.  It also explores weather or not either person is wrong for what they do; one partially ignoring the other but going about their evening doing things they must do, the other constantly on their phone checking for responses.

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The same piece as above elevated with colour and a layover of the messaging textboxes to re-itterate what my message is and how in the light and dark sometimes in the things in real life we do we have time to respond to virtual messages but also on the other side of this in those things we do also require our full attention and are things we cannot do while texting.

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Same image without block layer atop it.

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practice ready for an 8 page print. One person to the other In print. This piece is supposed to say alot without words and is also black and white except for the message boxes that are a highlighted yellow to draw attention to the messages.