Class 14_Homework_March 8th

Dear Class -
GREAT JOB presenting your ideas to the stakeholders and audience today!!! Congratulations! You should all feel really good about the progress you have made over the last few weeks. For homework, you will wrap up the design thinking phase of the course by photographing your final prototype(s) and writing project conclusions based on all of the stakeholder and audience feedback and final design considerations. See details below.

PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE remember that we are sprinting now. You need to plan your time very carefully so that you get your homework finished and turned in by the appropriate dates. Use your calendars! If the due date is given in advance, use the extra time to develop and execute your project as well as you possibly can. If you don't understand something, come to office hours. As always, if you have ANY trouble uploading your work to the Google drive, email it to me instead so I can do it for you BEFORE the deadline. I use the time stamp of the drive and of emailed work to see whether or not your assigned work is on time.

Have a WONDERFUL break!
Professor Urrutia



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Photograph prototype(s)
Format: JPG uploaded to the c14_a1Prototype Photographs on the Google Drive
Tuesday, March 20th [PUT THIS DATE IN YOUR CALENDAR]

As an individual, photograph your final prototypes. Include a series of 5 photographs of the prototypes. Your photographs must be in focus, clear, readable, and framed well. Image quality counts. Consider backgrounds/staging and zooming in/out.

Final images should be named Lastname_Firstname1.jpg, Lastname_Firstname2.jpg, Lastname_Firstname3.jpg... in the folder titled c14_a1_Prototype Photographs in your team folder. Click here for the link in the folder: https://drive.google.com/open?id=1fmP1McT8T7ysg7VHqfbl-8FLeFEyb9dc

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Design Thinking Project Next Steps & Conclusions
Format: Type-up and save as a PDF and upload to the c14_a2DesignThinkingNextSteps_Conclusions folder of the Google Drive 

due: Tuesday, March 20th [PUT THIS DATE IN YOUR CALENDAR]

As an individual, write a narrative that summarizes the feedback from stakeholders + next steps and conclusions for your project. Reference your notes from today's user-testing session (and notes from user-testing round #1 if still applicable). 

Use the outline below to craft this statement:

1. Write a narrative of conclusions on your design concept that summarizes the feedback from the stakeholders and concludes on project results and ideas for moving forward. List the ideas that were well received as well as those that were not and summarize why. What is working? What is not? 
2. Expand on this narrative to discuss how you could improve your concept? What are some new ideas that came about from discussion and feedback? Add notes on new things you learned and things that should be expanded on if you were to move forward with the project. 
3. Identify "holes" in your concept that would need to be researched and included to actually implement the project. Include some thoughts on the logistics of implementing the work. What steps may need to be defined in order to implement your design concept? 
4. Consider the sustainability of your project from an economic, environmental, and social perspective in your conclusions. How would your project be managed over a longer duration of time?

The final narrative should be named:
Lastname_Firstname.pdf 
and 
submitted in the folder titled c14_a2DesignThinkingNextSteps_Conclusions folder.

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Design Thinking Group Evaluation

Format: Type up and email save as a pdf. Email to lurrutia@mca.edu.

due Tuesday, March 20th [PUT THIS DATE IN YOUR CALENDAR]

As an individual, write a personal evaluation (anonymous) that outlines your contributions to your team through the design thinking project. Highlight your strengths and weaknesses as a contributor to the group. Make sure to highlight all contributions from all phases of the design process:

1. empathy: interviews
2. define: constructing your POV
3. ideation: brainstorming & sketching
4. prototyping: 3D making
5. testing:  presentation & conclusions

Begin with your own evaluation and then go through the same process for each of your team members. List their contributions, strengths and weaknesses. Grade yourself and your group mates based on this written evaluation. Use the handout provided. Save using the following naming convention: Design_Think_Group_Eval_FirstInitialLastName.pdf