Progress so far...

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Progress so far...

• Observed behavior and context
• Discovered a void to fill
• Refined the void into a rough concept
• Vision

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Communicate The Vision Thingwith aproof of
concept
feedback validation criticism advice buy-in
dissent encouragement
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Proof of concept questions

• What others do I care about?
• What aspect of my concept would those others care
  about?
• What aspects of my concept am I unsure about?
• (The deliberately-set-yourself-up question)
• What aspects of my concept are bulletproof?

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Example 1

• Concept Entertaining blues singing/songwriting
  environment experienced as a day-in-the-life.
• The Others Graphic design-oriented classmates
• Goal Guidance and reassurance on visual theme

Proof-of-concept tool Mood board collage of
colors and textures of environment in its
progress from morning into night.
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Example 2

• The Concept Bank software to teach kids to save
  money and show how compound interest works
• The Other Co-parent
• Goal Honest criticism, expert advice on content

Proof-of-concept tool Glossary to explicitly
define key problem-level abstractions, essential
words, and concepts http//www-106.ibm.com/develo
perworks/library/oo-design2/index.html?dwzonecomp
onents
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Example 3

• Concept Visualize trends with smooth
  interpolated animation of periodic data
• The Others Colleagues, managers, trustworthy
  long-time client with
• Goal Research catalyst, validation, funding

Proof-of-concept tool QT movie that morphs
between 3 screen captures of period data
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Creating a proof of concept...

• proves that the idea works before actually
  making a prototype
• to help visualize the purpose of the project as
  well as use it as a usually internal selling
  tool to gain support and understanding for the
  project
• makes sure that this problem is worth solving

quotes from experts
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fill in remaining voids in
The Vision Thingwith feedback from
aproof of concept