Agenda Week 10, Day 1

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Agenda Week 10, Day 1

• Where weve been
• Professional portfolio assignment guidelines
• Examples and building blocks
• Personas
• Today
• Conceptual Designs
• Portfolio text
• Thursday
• Course evaluations
• Formative evaluation (involves homework)
• Presentation from Carrie Groff

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Thinking about strategies

• From the article Developing a web-based
  portfolio
• Include explanatory text
• Provide linked documents in format easily viewed
  with common software applications (and PDFs)
• Use easy to follow navigation
• Group like samples together
• Create separate documents for each sample
• Use links from web pages to sample documents,
  open linked sample documents in new browser window

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Revisiting the Homework
Conceptual Designs Step 0/3

• Each team member should come to class with a set
  of sketches showing one potential design concept
  (i.e., a conceptual design).
• At minimum, you sketches should include (a) a
  main page and (b) a portfolio element page.

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Developing Promising Design
Conceptual Designs Step 1/3

• Work as a team to identify a single promising
  design concept, using the sketches from each team
  member as alternatives/inspiration.

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Share Designs
Conceptual Designs Step 2/3

• Form three person ad-hoc groups. Each member of
  the ad-hoc group should explain their design to
  other group members and get feedback from the
  group members. Students should not be in a group
  with their teammates.

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Implications for Designs
Conceptual Designs Step 3/3

• Based on feedback in your groups,
• What are some strategies everyone might want to
  use (e.g., dont forget to x, try to avoid x, )?
  
• What are some challenges you may face in
  developing the portfolio?

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Questions about Text
Portfolio Text 1/3

• What functions does the text in the professional
  portfolio provide?
• What properties does this text need to have?

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Prepare Text (in teams)
Portfolio Text 2/3

• For one element of your web professional
  portfolio (e.g., the page layout/Indesign
  element), prepare a draft of the text that would
  accompany this element.
• Post your text to the course E-post.

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Design Implications for Text
Portfolio Text 3/3

• Based on your review of the drafts,
• What are important elements of the text?
• What properties does the text need to have?

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Homework Thurs, Team

• As a team, prepare a 2-3 page working prototype
  of your professional portfolio.
• Pages The prototype should include the main
  portfolio page as well as 1-2 element pages.
• Dimensions The prototype should include
  navigation, graphic design, and text.