Week 26, April 9

Special Guests! #

We’re joined today by two guests for our project check-ins:

Sachi Mavinkurve is a product designer from Mumbai, India, currently living and tinkering in New York. She works on visual design, branding, exhibition design, research, writing, and spatial planning projects. Her product design projects focus on emotional health, communication, and social dynamics. She’s interested in social flourishing in increasingly digital times.
Vicky Chen is a Designer with years of experience specializing in web, UI/UX, and graphic design. Avid for both visual and product design, Vicky thrives at the intersection of creativity and user-focused approach to design friendly user-forward solutions.

Both are MPS alumni from last year!

…or is it four? Either way, same groups again!

Group 1

Mia, Amy, Hye Lynn, Jonathan, Shambhavi, Yuting, Bhakti

Group 2

Mika, Inji, Vee, Devansh, Jenny, Ziwei, Jolyn

Group 3

Rice, Rayana, Nadia, Huijie, Hannah, Irene, Jennifer

Group 4

Amely, Yaxuan, Ishani, Emma, Opal, Iris, Bee

Our goal today is for you to see both instructors and both alumni! If we’re relatively quick about things
Have your MVP up on your phone, ready to tap tap tap
With your instructors: update us on your progress from last week and what you’ll be tackling next
Our goal is to help identify what you need to get across the finish line in two weeks 😲
With your alumni: give them a brief background to your problem/concept and then just hand over the phone!
This could be more about vibes, and just fresh UX eyes

So we’ve noticed some continued, blanket/en-masse copy/pastin’—this despite our ongoing previous conversations around attribution.

We don’t want grades to be why any of us does anything—but will say that ignoring our policies (and specific warnings) and plagiarizing your final project will result in a failing grade.

When we open up your JS—do you understand what is going on? Are you demonstrating that, in your your use and comments? If the answer is no, don’t submit it until you do.
Consider the “storytelling” of your project—(good) stories have a start, middle, and an end. As we move more into your design, think of someone coming to your site, using it, and then what its “end” state is.
Don’t show us things we can’t yet do/use. If we have to do “step 1,” don’t show us “step 2” until I’ve done what we need to first. (Or show them diffferently, or disabled.) This is also a way to narrow your edge-cases! And make the design less overwhelming.

Also affordances—what does this thing do? Make it obvious!
We need to move to visual design for next week—so let’s “put a pin” in any additional features and/or “bells and whistles.” Come back to these after the look/feel is where you want it to be.

If your core functionality isn’t there yet, we’re behind—and that needs to come first to allow you to move to visuals! Two weeks!

We’re heading into the closing phases of your projects. Next week, you should be shifting back into visual design and testing/QA:

Project 5 Refinement, Polish, and Testing
Update us with your progress, in the usual manner:

Submission Form