HCI 440

Fall 2022

Craig Miller

Weekly Notes

Assignments

Team Project 2
Conceptual Design
Due Sunday October 23 before 11:30pm

Overview

For this second phase, your team will specify a design solution at the conceptual level that addresses issues identified in the first team project.

Assignment Requirements

At minimum, the project should present the conceptual design with a list of requirements, personas and design scenarios associated with personas. The report should document and summarize the project with information specified in the nextsection.

You are strongly encouraged to focus on just one major issue revealed in the discovery phase to produce a design that addresses it.

Report Contents

Your submitted report should contain the following sections:

  • Executive summary. Develop a one to two paragraph statement that summarizes your proposed design at the conceptual level and motivated it with a high-level overview of your report.
  • Process overview. Summarize your design process including any activities you used to develop, select and refine your proposed design.
  • Requirements. This section can be a list of requirements, typically stated with a sentence or two.
  • Personas and design scenarios. Provide a summary statement of the personas, followed by the personas and their scenarios that present the conceptual design.
  • Supporting diagrams (optional). If included, provide supporting text.
  • Appendix materials. Appendix includes process details (e.g. questions, individual notes showing proposed solutions and other contributing materials. Also include how individuals contributed to the project.

Team Process

The following is a recommended set of team phases and deadlines:

  • Individual Review and Contribution (Friday October 14). Individual team members should review all research from the first project and identify an important issue that could be addressed with a design solution. The individual works out a scenario that presents the conceptual design and shares it with the team.
  • Design selection and consolidation. (Tuesday October 18). Team members discuss shared design proposal and select one or consolidate several into one.
  • Integration (Friday October 21). Proposed design is integrated with personas of the previous project.
  • Requirements extraction (Friday October 21). Requirements are extracted from the proposed design. This activity can be done concurrently with the integration phase.
  • Finalize (Sunday October 23). Write executive summary. Edit and proofread. Submit!

Submission

Submit your report to D2L as a PDF document.

Grading

This project is worth 10% of the course grade (5% as a joint grade and 5% as individual contributions). The following criteria will be used for scoring the report:

  • Report organization and presentation. The report is well written and organized so that it is easy to find required information.
  • Report completeness. The report has all required contents. You are strongly encouraged to review all requirements on this page before you submit your report.
  • Process. The report shows that the proper process is followed and was based on outcomes from the first project.
  • Supported findings. The origins of the requirements, personas, scenarios and any additional design materials are clearly documented.