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Final Project First Steps

Here are the first steps to take as you get started on your final projects.

Step 1: Start Final Project Information Document

  1. Get the link to your group’s document (Miro Board) from Prof Stein
  2. Enter in as much information as you can for Frame 1 (Project Name, Your Names, Communication tool, weekly meeting times)

If you haven’t yet, you will want to view the video in the Final Project Management post. This can be done after class.

Step 2: Confirm and Specify Project Topic

You will need to confirm what you project is going to be about so you know how to design the visual aspects and what information you will collect from Dollar Street web site.

The Project Topic area of the Final Project Information Document is a guide for what to think about in includes:

  • Overall Focus: what is your overall focus. For example you might be focused on how people sleep in a specific country across incomes, or you might want to look at the toys people have across the world.
    • Write down the focus in the Overall Focus box of the Project Topic area.
  • Specific Topics: narrow down which topics you will use to filter your families. You should have at least one, but it could be more. For example if you are interested in how people clean themselves you might be looking at images for these topics: bathroom, hair brushes, soaps, toothpaste, toothbrushes. In the Final Project Information Document there is a large list of topics.
    • Drag over the ones you will use to the Topics area of the Project Topic area.
  • Income Range: Your group will need to decide if you will use a broad or narrow income range. The biggest possible range is $20/month to $20,000/month. You can choose any range of incomes you like (but you should make sure you will have enough families with information in that range.
    • Enter the Range in the boxes in the Income area of the Project Topic area.
  • Location: your group will also need to decide if you will use families from anywhere in the world if if you will select from certain regions or countries.
    • Write down what locations you will use in the Location area of the Project Topic area.

Step 3: Begin the Project Brief

Divide up tasks to work on the Final Project Brief. You can divide them up how you like. Here are some suggestions:

  • Talk with each other about the visual design and see if you can come up with some example sites that you can use for inspiration for your design and layout.
    • These sites will be part of the Research section of the brief. Remember to note the Name, URL of the site and why you chose it
  • Agree as a group on the Site Map. This is which pages your site has. Don’t over think this. It should be relatively simple.
    • There should be enough pages that people can see the kind of comparisons and information you are trying to get across as you described in your main Project Topic information.
    • Remember that you can get Tag pages (pages that list all of the posts that have a tag) from a single template design. You can put in multiple tag pages, but will only have to design one wireframe and one template in Eleventy for all of them)
  • Once those things are agreed upon then you can split up
    • Wireframes
    • Style Tile (this person can also write the written part of the Look and Feel section)
    • Writing: Description, Target Audience, Goals, Research

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