Announcements
- Dust or Magic Details for tomorrow if you’d like to attend
- Final Exam Date for Final Presentations – Thursday, Dec 11, 8:00 – 10:50
- Winter Show Date & Posters – Friday, Dec 5
Initial Thesis Proposal Components
Project Overview
- What’s your idea?
Project Background
- What inspired your idea? Draw from your Manifesto, History of the Field, State of the Field, Leaders of the Field & Future of the Field assignments.
Target Audience
Team Blinky Initial Proposals Presentations
Initial Project Proposal – 10 points for presentation; 10 for write-up
Describe your initial ideas for your capstone project. Your Initial Proposal should include three sections: a Project Overview section , a Project Background Section, and a Target Audience section.
The Project Overview is a high level description of the project you’d like to develop for your Senior Thesis.
The Project Background section should be a summary drawing from your Personal Manifesto, History of the Field, State of the Field, Leaders of the Field & Future of the Field assignments. It should describe the environment into which your project will fit, and how it will affect the future of your field of interest.
The Target Audience section should be a description of the user groups you are creating for, and specifically which of needs your project will be fulfilling. Your description should be a summary of your User Personas and User Stories. Create at least three User Personas representing the different groups your project will target. Create a spreadsheet listing at least three user stories for each of the user groups you identified.
Class Discussion of Project Demos & Winter Show Posters
One-Time Assignments for 11/10
Initial Project Proposal – 10 points for presentation; 10 for write-up
All students will submit their written Initial Proposals before 11/10. Team Inky will present their Initial Proposals on 11/10.
1st Project Prototypes – 3 points
Complete your 1st project prototype for next week Monday, posting your results to the class Google Community. We’ll discuss everyone’s prototype results in class.