Month: November 2015

Prep for Final Presentations

Announcements

  • Final Presentations – Thursday 12/10 8:00am-10:50am (time pending)
  • Course evaluations in PAWS

Presentations

Today we’re going to rehearse your final presentations.

Exercise

Together with your team, take 45 minutes or so to organize your materials for your presentation. Make sure you have the following materials:

  • Project concept elevator pitches
  • Project diagrams & content maps
  • Design Brief (your Knight Challenge Entry)
  • User Personas & User Stories
  • Administration documentation & Style Guide
  • Functional Prototype (derived from paper prototypes)

The Google Drive presentation you worked up last week should be based on the materials listed above.

Make sure each team member has at least one slide to present, and that you are covering off on each of the materials listed above.

Once your team has your presentation together, practice it together as team.

Exercise

Once all teams are prepared, we’ll do a formal dry run of the final presentations.

Assignment

  • Together with your team, continue to refine your project materials and your presentation based upon the feedback you received in class.
  • Individually, make sure you’re caught up on your Design Notebooks

Functional Prototypes

Announcements

  • Next week – Final Presentation Rehearsals
  • Final Presentations – Thursday 12/10 8:00am-10:50am

Design Notebooks

Let’s take a few minutes to review your some of your Design Notebooks.

Functional Prototypes & Documentation

You should be in the final phase of developing your projects. Your team should have the following artifacts:

  • Project concept elevator pitches
  • Project diagrams & content maps
  • Design Brief (your Knight Challenge Entry)
  • User Personas & User Stories
  • Administration documentation & Style Guide
  • Functional Prototype (derived from paper prototypes)

Exercise

Break up into your teams and continue refining your prototypes & documentation:

  • Update your team blog page with the latest versions of the artifacts listed above
  • Break up your prototypes & documentation into parts – one part for each of your team members
  • Each team member is responsible for finalizing and presenting their part of the your project
  • Create a Google Drive Presentation for your final presentation, including at least one slide for each member of your team, labelled with the part of the project each team member will present
  • Each team member is responsible for creating and presenting their slide

Assignment

Have a great Thanksgiving & come prepared to rehearse your final presentations next week.

Design Guidelines

Announcements

  • Next Week – Finishing touches on functional prototypes & documentation
  • 11/30/15 – Last regular class, final presentation dress rehearsals
  • Final Exam – Thursday, 12/10 8:00-10:50
  • A new prototyping tool – floid.io

Design Notebooks

Let’s take a few minutes to review some of your Design Notebooks.

Design Guidelines

Why do you need Design Guidelines?

Some examples of Design Guidelines:

Exercise

Together with your team, review the example design guidelines listed above. Answer the following questions:

  • What guideline elements are common across most of the design guidelines?
  • Which guideline is most applicable as a template for your project?
  • What elements are present in your project that need to be documented that are not present in any of the guidelines listed above?

Discussion

Let’s take a few minutes review your analysis of the example design guidelines.

Workshop

Together with your team, create an outline for your project’s design guidelines. Include:

  • a title
  • subheads for each guidance section (logo, typography, color palette, layout, device responsiveness, message size, copy style, etc)

Assignment

Projects

With your team, continue refining your project’s design guidelines.

  • Fill out each section you created during class, including visuals where appropriate to demonstrate how to implement your design elements.

Design Notebook (Individually)

  • Create a new slide in your Design Notebook and title it “Design Guidelines”
  • Include a link to your team’s Design Guidelines document

Project Documentation

Announcements

  • 4 weeks left before final presentations

Design Notebooks

Let’s take a few minutes to review some of your design notebooks.

Documenting Your Prototypes

Why document your projects?

 

  • allows anyone new to the project to quickly get up to speed on how things work
  • allows you to refer back to how things work
  • allows you to refer to why you made certain decisions

What should include in your documentation?

  • a description of the problem your project is addressing
  • a description of how things work
  • specific “how to” tutorials on how to install & set up the system, update content etc.
  • anything else?

What format?

  • pdf
  • wiki
  • source code

Exercise

Organize into your teams and create an outline to document your project

  • What should it contain?
  • In what format should it be?

Create a list of steps the system administrator would need to follow to:

  • install the system OR
  • update the content

Assignment

Project

  • Meet up with your team and continue to refine your prototypes
  • Continue to refine your documentation by providing screenshots or other support visuals to document how to install, configure, and/or update content for your system.

Design Notebooks

  • Create a new slide in your Design Notebooks and title it “Progress for” and today’s date
  • Write a brief paragraph listing the progress your team has made this week on your prototype & its documentation
  • Write another brief paragraph describing your contribution to that progress

Submitting Your Work

This week’s homework assignment is due next week before class. When you’ve completed them, post a comment on this page (Project Documentation), including a link to your Design Notebook.

Revise Prototypes

Announcements

  • Spring 2016 registration begins this week
  • TrentonWorks Internships. Interested? Email me @ thompsom@tcnj.edu
  • Interactive Design for Developing Communities class
  • Next week – Project Documentation

Design Notebooks

Let’s review some of your Design Notebooks.

Revise Prototypes

From Paper to Bits

  • Based on the feedback you received in class during user testing, update your project user stories, diagrams and content maps
  • Begin framing out your apps in a digital format. This could be HTML a Google Presentation, or some other digital prototyping framework

SMS Breakout Session

  • For those of you using SMS in your solutions, let’s group up into a separate discussion group to explore Twilio and Textit.in

Assignment

Prototypes

  • With your team, continue transitioning your paper prototype to digital
  • Begin mocking up your screens in Google Presentation or HTML
  • If you’re using SMS, try sending and receiving an SMS message using Twilio or Textit.in

Team Pages

  • Update your Team page with your progress on your prototypes
  • Continue to monitor for feedback from your classmates, our Bonner representatives and your Trenton partner organizations

Design Notebooks

  • Individually, create a new slide in your Design Notebook and title it “Progress for ” and today’s date
  • What progress has your team made this week on your prototypes?
  • What was your individual contribution?

Submitting Your Work

This week’s homework assignment is due next week before class. When you’ve completed them, post a comment on this page (Revise Prototypes), including a link to your Design Notebook.