We will go over this post in class to help you think about what to do for your final project and to also get started with getting you into groups.
Overall Topic Guide
For this semester, you will be required to create a project that tells a story using the information from the Dollar Street website.
- Dollar Street: Dollar Street – photos as data to kill country stereotypes (gapminder.org)
- About Dollar Street
- Dollar Street photos and texts are licensed by Creative Commons 4.0 Attribution International Public License.
There is a lot of information on the Dollar Street website. It shows both people live in different countries and lets you compare their monthly income and how they are living: what their rooms look like, what kind of appliances they own, what kind of shoes they have, how they bathe and much more.
Your task will be to pick four to six families to compare and tell a story about. You could pick similar income families in different countries, different incomes in the same country, or whatever your group decides will be a good way to compare them and tell a story.
You will also be able to use other CC or equivalent licensed content to add to your site if needed.
Dollar Street Video Walkthrough
This video walks you through what is available on Dollar Street and gets you started thinking on how you might use the data there to pick a topic for the final group project.
View Walkthrough on Dropbox with closed captioning
Technical Requirements
You will get a more detailed list later, but keep in mind:
- You will need to use Eleventy
- In addition to the base template you will need at least one page template that will add additional information for a specific type of page
- You will need to use collections.
Roles
In your groups you will divide the work among yourselves. To make this clearer and the workflow easier you will each get defined roles. in general the roles will include:
- Project Management: activities like track deadlines, set up group meetings and communications, communicate with Prof Stein.
- UX: wireframes, sitemaps, thinking through how the user will go through the site and what information and interactivity they will need.
- Visual Design: typography, colors, layout (Style Tiles), editing images, creating icons and other visual assets. Designers should also help with CSS.
- Development: HTML, Eleventy setup, Templates in 11ty, working with data/apis, deploy to netlify.
Everyone will need to be able to access the GitHub repository and write files and do Git Branching to support the work. All roles except for Project Management should be done by more than one person, so you will all have at least two roles.
There should be at least two and no more than four people per group.
Project Roles Survey
I will give a survey link in class where you can indicate your preferences for roles. These will be a guide, but you will most likely have to do some part of a role that is not your first choice.
