IxD Lab 2: work in progress

Your final project pages are accessible not from the normal sidebar but from the tab above.

To write them, pick Write/Write PAGE instead of Write POST in the Dashboard.
To make a new page, pick Manage/Pages and click on Create a new page

If you make a new page as a sub-page to your main final project page:
1) add two full points to the beginning of the title, so it makes a visual hierarchy in the sidebar.
eg
TREE OF LIFE
..Tree 1
..Tree 2

2) make sure the new page has your main project page as its parent page. Here ..Tree 1 has as its parent the page TREE OF LIFE

By the exam hand-in, please document your final project, as a record and as the exam submission, in one or more ‘Final projects’ pages. This documentation aims: 1) to show people, who don’t know about your project, its aim, what it was and how it was done, and 2) to allow them to build upon it, just as you have built on the work of others. The documentation is as important as the project, because it is all that remains afterwards.

The documentation should include as a minimum (it may include more):

• Elevator pitch, of max. 150 words (this could be the short descriptions I wrote for each project—see Summary of Projects posted 10 March), and a seductive, informative, introductory image
• Description of the installation: who is it for? where is it? what information does it give? how does it do this?
• Description of how the real installation would be made (largely technical but also practical)
• Description of how your prototype works, and was constructed
• Any code you used, with instructions on how to run it, and/or electronic diagrams
• Description of any problems which emerged in the design and construction of the prototype, how you solved them (if you did), or how someone might solve them in future (if you didn’t)
• Declaration of who in your group did what.

The pages should be vividly designed within the limitations of WordPress, and generously illustrated by diagrams, photos, videos etc. You will have much material, so probably need more than one page; remember, when you write a new page, to make sure it’s parent page is your main project page.

Those people who did not post their pre-prototyping presentation should please do so in the ‘Projects in progress’ category.

Answer: to communicate the importance and unique character of the work done by the students of Iuav’s Interaction Design programme – to the class, visitors, people we know, and eventually, after the end of the course, the public.

Through this site the programme will become known for being serious, active, inventive (maybe witty too). This will attract interesting students and teachers to participate in the programme. It will closed career doors to the programme’s current members and alumni. And it will stimulate others to build on what you have done, just as you are stimulated by projects you see on the Web (Davide and Luca’s YouTube video, for instance, prompted enquiries from Belarus about how they achieved gesture recognition). Read More »