Month: November 2015

Announcements

• Kelly Krumenacker’s BCCM presentation
• Next week – Dry run project demonstrations with Emily Croll
• Next week – 2nd Exhibit Critique due
• 12/9, 8:00-10:50 – Final Presentations, tentatively scheduled to take place in the STEAM lab at the NJSM

Project Status

Let’s take a few minutes to review the status of each of your projects.

Exercise

• Bring your project pages up to date with your latest vision documents, concept art, wireframes, screen shots, and prototypes.
• Create an outline for your demo/presentation making sure to include:
  • your primary audience
  • the object(s) you’re interpreting
  • the story you’re telling to enhance the interpretation
  • the interactivity you’re facilitating and why
  • run through one user story for your demo
  • present what next steps would be required to implement a production-quality release of your project

Open Discussion

• Continue working on your projects
• Engage your classmates with any questions or if you’d like feedback on your design decisions

Assignment

2nd Exhibit Critique

Please complete your second exhibit critique using this template as a guide. You may use the Bucks County Children’s Museum, the Sarnoff Innovation Video Game exhibit, A Palette of Pixels or any other exhibition you have recently visited as your subject.

Prototypes

• Continue developing your prototypes
• With your team, practice your presentation based on your vision document and the outline you created above as a framework for your dry run prototype demonstration for next week

Announcements

• Digital Experience Designer job posting – courtesy of Emily Croll
• We’re meeting at AIMM 222 @ 8:30
• We’ll leave for the BCCM promptly at 8:45
• Kelly Krumenacker, Executive Director of the Museum will meet us at the museum at 9:15
• Bring change, the parking lot is metered

Bucks County Children’s Museum

Location

Google Map

Drivers

Carpool

Agenda

Kelly’s Presentation

• 8:30 – Meet at AIMM 222
• 8:45 – Depart for museum
• 9:15 – Arrive at museum
• 9:30 – Kelly Krumenaker, the museum’s Executive Director, will present about the museum
• 10:15 – Kelly will give us a tour of the museum
• 11:30 – Depart for TCNJ, those interested may accompany me to Prof. Kuiphoff’s house in Stockton, NJ for a demo of his X-Carve 3D cutter

Assignment

Reading

• The Future of Exhibits – courtesy of Kelly Krumenaker

Projects

• Continue developing your projects
• Let me know if I can help in any way

Design Notebooks (Individually)

• Create a new slide for your Design Notebook and title it “Progress report for ” and today’s date
• Write a brief status update on your progress with your project
• What have you accomplished to date?
• What do you have left to complete?

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 (MCN Conference), including a link to your Design Notebook.

Announcements

• Professor Thompson presenting with Emily Croll at MCN 2015 Conference this Friday, 11/6/15
• Professor Kuiphoff will be available for consultation about your projects in 206 from 11:00 on Friday. 11/6/15

Assignment

Prototypes

• Continue developing your prototypes
• Start with the biggest unknowns and go from there, creating smaller prototypes to proof out what you want to do
• Break big problems into smaller ones and address them one at a time
• Divide the workload up among your team mates

Design Notebooks

• Individually, create a new page in each of your Design Notebooks and title it “11/6/15”
• Write a brief paragraph documenting your progress with your prototype this week
• Write a bullet point list of your goals for next week

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 (MCN Conference), including a link to your Design Notebook.