Your final presentation will be an event where your peers, professors, and professional friends will come to see and hear what you've done. Your assignment is to put together a communicative and compelling package that gets key points across.
First, decide what features of your prototype, process, and research you want to communicate. What should be most salient? This isn't a marketing spiel - it's an academic exercise. Communicating three months of iteration, research, and design decisions into a very short time frame means making tough decisions. The more you boil your work down to its essence, the better. Take the core concepts, communicate them, and then expound as necessary -- rather than explaining every detail.
Second, consider the two visual deliverables you are creating: the 1-minute madness slide and your booth poster, and how their content differs. The slide is a high-level look to entice people to come and learn about your project, your poster is a medium-level look at your iterative user-centered design process.
Prepare for the poster session by thinking about how you are going to explain your prototype to people. Are you going to let them hold the iPod/iPhone and try it themselves? Are you going to hold it and show them? Why did you make that decision? What are you going to say to them? A good pitch is an elegant mix of demo and evaluation. Are there parts you want to call out as you walk them through the process? Keep in mind that none of the people there will have your exact background and insight into your application. Present them with the user need first, show them your solution, and tell them why your work is unique.
| Grading Dimension | Guiding questions | Bare minimum | Satisfactory effort & performance | Above & Beyond |
| 1-minute madness presentation (max 40 points) |
How well does your design, script, and execution flow together? Was it memorable and communicative? Did the slide (or lack thereof) complement the talk well? | 0-31 points; Presentation sufficient to convey project concept. | 32-37 points; Presentation had a good flow, was memorable and creative. | 38-40 points; Presentation was very well planned and had unique and creative elements that made it stand out. The audience was drawn in and left curious to visit the poster. |
| Poster (max 40 points) |
Does your poster communicate your user-centered design process? Does it provide some background about your idea and clearly articulate your final product concept? Is it visually appealing? | 0-31 points; Poster exists and sparsely communicates the basics of the application. | 32-37 points; Poster clearly communicates the key points of the application and the design process that led there. | 38-40 points; Poster is designed in a way that creatively communicates the design process, the user goal, and how your application helps users acheive their goal. The visual layout is appealing. |
| Final prototype (max 60 points) |
How well was the final, user-tested prototype executed? Were improvements made based on user testing? We want to see that your application has evolved based on the findings you got from testing. | 0-50 points; There are not many changes to the application, or the changes are superficial. | 51-56 points; Changes have been made to help the user accomplish their task and reduce breakdowns. | 57-60 points; Significant changes to improve the user experience and help the user accomplish their task have been made. The changes are based on well justified findings from user testing. |