Week of Feb. 15th This week we worked on designing and creating an interactive prototype that would convey our idea more concretely to the client. We had another brainstorming session, worked on storyboards and finally a mockup prototype that could be interacted with. Our idea was to have the HistoryMakers appear as stars in the sky, so constellations could be
Week of Feb. 8th We continued to talk about user research and the approaches we believed would be best to use for our team. The week mostly consisted of high-level brainstorming for our ideas to be pitched to the client in this week’s meeting. We came up with several abstract and concrete ideas including data visualization through timelines, story clouds,
Week of Feb.1 We are an ETC team named ‘Archive Dive’ working on a client-based project for this semester. Our client, the HistoryMakers, has a digital archive of interviews with a broad range of African Americans that tells underrepresented stories from all walks of life. The digital archive can be found here. During the first week of the semester, we emerged