Week 8

Lauren Zhang/ March 30, 2021

Mar. 22 – Mar. 26 We decided to pivot away from showing videos of HistoryMakers, focusing instead on presenting the people and their information in a clean and playful way. For part 1, we got rid of the projector device and made the filters flat stripes (keeping the dragging component). Knowing the ring shape and animation was appealing, we incorporated

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Week 7

Lauren Zhang/ March 19, 2021

Mar. 15 – Mar.19 Last week we made some changes to our production process, and had the designers push out decisions much earlier. For our version 2, we changed he concept from music record vinyl to DVDs. The record player was changed to a futuristic projector. We also used official fonts and colors of The HistoryMakers. Part 1 was modified

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Week 6

Lauren Zhang/ March 19, 2021

Mar. 8 – Mar. 12 Last week we had decided to build our first real prototype for playtesting. Our overall guiding theme was music and vintage but modern aesthetics. The concept was to visualize the people in the archive as music albums, each containing 2-3 minute video snippets of a their interviews. There are two parts: a record player view

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Week 5

Lauren Zhang/ March 17, 2021

Mar. 1 – Mar. 5 Reflecting on the feedback from 1/4s walkarounds and sitdowns, this week we came up with three ideas – timeline with adjustable filters rings, create your own album cover and a 3D space to freely navigate to feel the expanse of The HistoryMakers. By the mid week we created mock ups for the ideas. Upon our

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Week 4

Lauren Zhang/ March 3, 2021

Feb. 22 – Feb. 26 After discussing the quarters feedback session and focusing ideas from previous brainstorming, our team decided the best path forward was to present two ideas at the next client meeting–a rough prototype of one idea and high fidelity storyboards for a second one. Idea 1: Take a quiz and get served a large selection of HistoryMakers

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