(Week: 8) Storyboard / Timeline

Last revised date: 2/4/2026

Overview

Refine your proposal and set milestones

Required Competencies

When you turn in this homework, also turn in these competencies

Assignment Details

Goals (Group)

Brainstorm and prepare specific goals for your project.

Tasks

Develop a list of 2-3 specific tasks you will support. Describe the steps the user must take to accomplish each task and how your interface supports this?

  • What requirements will your final prototype be able to fulfill?
  • What user interactions will it support?
  • What data from your background research guided these decisions?

Validation

In addition, brainstorm about how you might validate those tasks. Even though we are not doing user studies, it is important to show that your product works as expected. This might mean coming up with a set of inputs and checking the accuracy of outputs (if using AI), or showing that a task can be completed successfully; or something else entirely. This is a good thing to get our help on!

Storyboard

Create 2-3 storyboards about your project idea. Each one should outline the complete experience of using your system to accomplish a task, from the first approach to the system, to walking away from it. Make sure that each step is connected to a functionality need.

Each storyboard should show off each step for a specific task you identified. A storyboards should have at least 3 panels – one to enter the scene, one or more for interaction steps, and one to exit the scene.

Disability Analysis (Group)

Conduct a disability model analysis

  • Identify at least two disability justice principle that your proposed system does or does not meet
  • Consider what ableist assumptions it makes or doesn’t make. For example, does it increase control and agency?
  • Consider disability leadership. What are you missing by only using first person accounts?
  • Who are you including? Who are you not? Identify at least one group that you are including, and one you are leaving out or not considering.

Timeline (Group)

Your timeline should include what you will do and who will do each task.

  • What will you implement by milestone one (week 9)?
  • How will you validate your work (week 10)? This should include
    • an accessibility audit
    • a correctness analysis, which is going to be specific to what you are proposing.
  • What will you do by the final presentation (include required work such as poster preparation)

Feasibility Analysis (Group)

Reflect on feasibility: Is the idea viable within the constraints of the class. This is hard, because scope may still be uncertain, and your approach is still being defined. You can revise, but it’s important to go in with a plan. Try not to downplay the risks, it’s better to have something do-able in the end!

  • Technically (can be built within 3 weeks)
    • What technologies will you use
    • How well does your group know them
    • What is your fallback plan?
  • Timeline
    • How many hours per week can each person put in? Does this match the expectations of the timeline?

For each aspect of feasibility: What will you need? What challenges do you foresee?

Reflect on your role in the team (Individual)

  • What do you envision your role to be in your team?
  • What will you contribute to the team?
  • Personal learning goals: How do you want to grow as part of this project? What are three specific skills (interpersonal or applied skills) that you would like to learn? How do you think your team members can help you learn these skills?
  • What is something that would help your team to function better?
  • What are you worried about

Use a maximum of 300 words. Be prepared to talk through what you wrote in this part of the essay with your team members!

Assessment & Handin Process

  • Come to a discussion with the course staff prepared to
    • Describe your tasks and how you will validate them
    • Show your storyboard (slides are a good way to do this!)
    • Discuss your timeline
    • Discuss your role reflections
  • (Group) Turn in a document on Gradescope containing
    • A list of tasks you plan to support
    • Pictures of your storyboard with descriptions
    • Your timeline
  • (Individual) Turn in your role reflection

Turn in your competency.

Disability Model Analysis (rubric)

  • Define and explain two disability justice principles. For each, explain how the subject fails or succeeds to meet that?
  • Address the three additional points
    • Is it ableist?
    • Is it informed by disabled perspectives?
    • Does it oversimplify disability/identity?

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