CS 468/568, Fall 2018, Dr. Burnett
Term Project (Team)

You will be doing an inclusive design project, aided by performing the first few lifecycle stages of persona development. So you'll need to pick two slices of the population (one marginalized by current software, one probably not), and a software product or feature subset to design/redesign. I encourage you to pick a project of personal interest to at least 1 member of your team.

Attributes your project idea needs:

Project Installment 1: Project formation

Turn in the following:

Here are some samples of what you need to turn: Sample 1 Sample 2 .

How to turn it in: TEACH 468 Submission 568 Submission .

When everything is due: See class schedule for the due dates.

Tentative Grading policy: 1 point per bullet item above, 7 points possible.

Project Installment 2: Family Planning (mostly just the data part)

This installment focuses on a portion of Family Planning, most of which will be about data.

There are two parts to this installment: a report and a presentation.

1. Report: Turn in a report with following (just 1 copy of this per group):

Example turn-ins for the report:
Autistic kids and Dementia .

You can find the grading policy for Project Installment 2 here .

2. The presentation (10 minutes to present, 5 for questions.):

How to turn it in: TEACH 468 Submission 568 Submission.

When everything is due: See class schedule for the due dates.

Project Installment 3: Conception and (Early) Gestation

In this installment, you'll be taking your underserved population through "conception" and the earliest bit of "gestation" (ie, through the book's "Step 4"). You'll also be doing a light version of this for your mainstream population.

Summary: Turn in the following:

1. Conception stuff to turn in for your underserved population (as a team):

2. Conception stuff to turn in for your mainstreamers (as a team):

Examples of what to turn in: Autistic kinds Dementia.

How to turn it in: TEACH 468 Submission 568 Submission .

When everything is due: See class schedule for the due dates.

You can find a tentative grading policy for Project Installment 3 here.

Project Installment 4: Rest of gestation, persona foundations, concepts

In this installment, you'll flesh out your skeletons into full-blown personas, including foundations for the underserved population one.

Group: Turn in the following (just 1 copy of this per group):

Some samples of what to turn in: Writeup Concept sketches.
You may choose to turn in a single combined document, or turn in your concept sketches as a separate file(s).

How to turn it in: TEACH 468 Submission 568 Submission .

When everything is due: See class schedule for the due dates.

You can find a tentative grading policy for Project Installment 4 here.

Project Installment 5: Very early prototype

In this installment, you'll turn in the beginnings of a low-fi prototype for developing one (or at most two) selected concepts.

Group: Turn in the following (just 1 copy of this per group):

How to turn it in: TEACH 468 Submission 568 Submission .

When everything is due: See class schedule for the due dates.

You can find a tentative grading policy for Project Installment 5 here.

Project Installment 6: Complete (some parts medium-fi, a snippet or two hi-fi) prototype

In this installment, you'll complete your prototype, at least to a medium-fidelity stage. A few of your screens will need to be high-fidelity,

Turn in the following (just 1 copy of this per group):

How to turn it in: TEACH 468 Submission 568 Submission.

When everything is due: See class schedule for the due dates.

Sample turn-ins: here and here

You can find last year's grading policy for Project Installment 6 here. We'll use it as a tentive grading policy for this year.

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Project Final Installment: Complete Project + Presentation Slides

Summary: Turn in the final versions of everything: personas, prototype, justification, and presentation slides

Group: Turn in the following (just 1 copy of this per group):

The earlier note on your process's dataflow bears repeating, so here it is again: Last assignment, some teams showed what I think of as "broken dataflow". That is, some of you did not build your latest work on the work leading up to it, and this caused problems. The inclusive design process requires the data/research to inform the skeletons, the skeletons to inform the personas, the personas to inform the concepts, the concepts to inform the prototype. So, for this assignment, be sure that your prototype builds very well on your personas, and that your personas build very well on your data. If your personas aren't good enough for that, then change your personas so that they are good enough. (Remember, inclusive design is iterative and creative, and needs all minds working together.)

At this point, you'll also turn in individually an estimate of what % of the work everything did from the time of the midterm until now. An online form is available for this.

How to turn it in: TEACH 468 Submission 568 Submission.

When everything is due: See class schedule for the due dates.

Here is the grading policy from last year. You can use it as the tentative grading policy for this year.


Date of last update: Dec. 3, 2018