October 23 – Pitches

Class Topics

  • Pitches to the client!

Homework

  • Continue to work on project. Focus on the following:
    • Revising creative brief to respond to feedback from the mayor
    • Adjusting/revising personas based on feedback from presentations
    • Creating a sitemap (outline of the website) that indicates the content needed for the full website (not just the small prototype you will build). This is important to do before you make new/revised prototypes
    • Sketch different layout options to explore a wide variety of compositional and organizational ideas for the main pages of the site
    • Build paperprototypes of the main user flows of the site so that you can explore multiple options
    • Start developing a brand identity
  • Continue to work on Web Design Foundations revisions
  • UI Sketchbook: Sketch 15 different solutions for one of the UI components (ex. a form, the navigation, an article list) you will be personally responsible to create for your group project. Note that different solutions means considering different ways to organize the content and different layouts. The focus should not be on aesthetics as much as composition, hierarchy, organization, and function. Use existing websites for inspiration (feel free to adapt and sketch based on your observations and remixes, just indicate where you got your ideas from). Sketches should all focus on the narrow/mobile screen. This will help your prototyping phase (Protip: draw to scale and in black and white so that you can easily switch them in and out of paper prototypes!)