You have identified a problem, explored a design space, selected a promising design, and iterated on that design. It is now time to focus on communicating your design and your design process. This group assignment communicates your design through a website, a poster, and a pitch.
This assignment is worth 15% of your overall course grade:
Assignment 4c: Communication Critique and Assignment 4e: Poster Session are intentionally not graded.
This is a group assignment, consisting of six milestones.
Assignment 4a: Initial Website
Due: Uploaded Monday, May 29, 2017 (before class on Tuesday, May 30, 2017)
Assignment 4b: Poster Critique and Pitch
Due: Uploaded Wednesday, May 31, 2017 (before class on Thursday, June 1, 2017)
Assignment 4c: Communication Critique
Due: Completed in section on Friday, June 2, 2017
Assignment 4d: Final Poster and Final Website
Due: Uploaded Friday, June 2, 2017
Due: Attend 10:30-11:50am, Tuesday, June 6, 2017
In this assignment, you communicate your design in several forms. You will create a website, a poster, and a pitch to present your work from the entire quarter.
Create a project website that provides an overview of the project, presents your design process, and introduces team members. At a minimum, it must include links to your Assignment 2 report, your Assignment 3 report, and your poster. Optionally, also include your presentations or other materials. Ideally, much of this same content will also be presented in a manner more appropriate for the web.
Be sure you have updated any documents that course staff said needed fixed before posting (e.g., any report that accidentally included participant identifying information).
Create a poster that communicates your design and your design process to a general audience. The goal is to present your work in a visual form to interested parties from across campus or from industry. You need to quickly convey the most important aspects of your work. The poster must be 32”x40” (portrait, vertical).
Create a pitch that you can deliver together with your poster. This should summarize the problem and your design. It should be no more than 1 minute long. This pitch should convince the audience your problem was worth investigating and that your design effectively addresses it.
Due: Uploaded Monday, May 29, 2017 (before class on Tuesday, May 30, 2017)
We will use your websites to advertise the poster session. Although this is in an initial website on which you will get feedback and will be able to update, you should submit a complete and high-quality versions of your website.
Your website will be served from a subdirectory of this course website. It is also link via a thumbnail from the projects page:
You can build your website however you like, but everything needed for your site must be in your directory. Do not attempt to integrate with the Jekyll functionality used for this course website. Simply build your website and submit the set of static files to be served from your directory.
Samples from prior offerings include:
Note that details of assignments may have changed since prior offerings, so their reports may not map to the current project. Also note these samples are intended to illustrate a variety of approaches, none of which is intended to be ideal or exemplary. Be sure to understand and carefully consider project requirements and feedback from the course staff in the context of your own work.
Github repo: https://github.com/uwcse440/web-cse440-sp17
Submit a pull request containing your website. We will merge as quickly as possible. You can submit multiple requests as needed to fix issues or improve your website. Your request should not modify anything outside your project website.
Submit simple pull requests early so that you become familiar with this functionality. Do not wait until the final moments to begin to learn how to do this.
If you are absolutely unable to submit a pull request, submit via Canvas here:
https://canvas.uw.edu/courses/1138137/assignments/3744837
This milestone will be graded on a scale of 8 points:
Your website should be complete and will be evaluated as such. But later critique and refinement will help further improve it before the final poster session.
Due: Uploaded Wednesday, May 31, 2017 (before class on Thursday, June 1, 2017)
Your poster should include:
Your poster should include images and limited amounts of text.
An effective poster size is 32”x40”. A PowerPoint template is available here:
Cow Project PowerPoint template
You should heavily modify the template to be unique and represent your project.
During the final poster session, your team will give a one minute pitch to a small group of judges.
Be prepared to give this pitch in class and when presenting the poster. Course staff and other students will give feedback so you can improve before the final poster session.
Samples from prior offerings include:
Note that details of assignments may have changed since prior offerings, so their reports may not map to the current project. Also note these samples are intended to illustrate a variety of approaches, none of which is intended to be ideal or exemplary. Be sure to understand and carefully consider project requirements and feedback from the course staff in the context of your own work.
Submit your poster via Canvas here:
https://canvas.uw.edu/courses/1138137/assignments/3744879
Your poster may be in PPT, PPTX, or PDF format. We have a color plotter that can print posters this size. Your source file is due as above, we will then coordinate with you for proofreading and printing.
Be prepared to give your elevator pitch in class.
This milestone will be graded on a scale of 6 points:
Due: Completed in section on Friday, June 2, 2017
This is a flexible critique day. The purpose of this day is to help you refine whichever of your remaining deliverables you feel needs feedback. Be prepared to present your website and/or poster at the critique. This is the last opportunity for you to get in-class critical feedback, so use it wisely.
Bring at least one of your artifacts to class (e.g., be prepared to show them on a laptop).
Due: Uploaded Friday, June 2, 2017
Course staff need your finalized poster as soon as possible, to organize printing and preparing for the poster session.
Finalize your website so we can finalize grading.
Submit your final poster as soon as possible here:
Poster: https://canvas.uw.edu/courses/1138137/assignments/3744879
Submit a pull request containing your website. We will merge as quickly as possible. You can submit multiple requests if needed to fix issues or improve your website. Your request should not modify anything outside your project website.
Submit simple pull requests early so that you become familiar with this functionality. Do not wait until the final moments to begin to learn how to do this.
Your final website and final poster will each be graded on a scale of 10 points.
Attend Attend 10:30-11:50am, Tuesday, June 6, 2017.
Come to the poster session to show off your work and engage with your classmates. Present your pitch to a team of judges.
We will not be conducting any evaluation at the poster session itself. Take the opportunity to present your work, chat with judges, engage with other students, and reflect on a busy and productive quarter.