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GR2: Design Sketches

Due at 5:00pm on Friday, February 29th, 2008, on the wiki.

Design Sketches

In this group assignment, you will continue the design of your term project by doing the following:

Details

Your design sketches will be graded on how well you've described them, how completely they cover your task analysis, and how diverse they are. Two designs that differ only in minor ways will not receive as much credit. The designs themselves won't be graded on usability for this assignment.

Take time to brainstorm a variety of different interface designs, sketching them by hand on paper or a whiteboard. You should play with many more than two designs, but we only require you to record two on your wiki page.

When you draw your sketches, don't get bogged down in details like wording, icon appearance, or layout. Keep things simple. Focus on the conceptual model you're trying to communicate to the user, and think about your task analysis: what the user needs to do and how they can do it. Putting too much time into designing low-level details is pointless if big things have to change on the next design iteration.

Hand-drawn sketches are encouraged. There are a number of ways to get hand-drawn sketches into your wiki page. You can draw on paper and use a scanner to convert it to electronic form, or you can draw on a whiteboard and take a careful picture of it. There are scanners and smart whiteboards located around campus; the Scanners page on the wiki lists the ones we know about; add more if you know of any. You can also use a digital camera to take high-resolution pictures of your sketches. In any case, please make sure your sketches are readable, and crop them appropriately. If you're using a whiteboard, be sure to do a test drawing first to make sure you can get a good picture of what you draw, before you spend a lot of time drawing your sketches only to discover that the pictures are unreadable or washed out.

What to Hand In

Update your group's wiki page so that it contains a section:

We will grade the version that exists at the moment of the deadline.

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