Project 2: Shadowboxing
| Grading criteria | Guiding questions | Check minus | Check | Check plus |
| Design sketches (30%) |
Did you consider a variety of alternative designs? Did you consider the users and context of use? Did you provide thoughtful rationales for your design decisions? A clear rationale should communicate the tradeoffs you considered, the intuition behind your decisions, and a clear link to the user needs or goals. This requires a nontrivial amount of text. | A handful of sketches exploring simple or obvious ideas. | A variety of interesting design ideas that take users into account, along with rationales for decisions made. | Very detailed, insightful, or innovative designs. Rationales exhibit strong arguments for design choices by drawing links to nontrivial insights in user needs and behavior. |
| Shadowboxing application (60%) |
Did you build a compelling, functional application suitable for real-world use? | A working implementation that interacts with the public via captured shadows, but with a conservative design or minor interaction hiccups. | A working implementation that provides a compelling experience both in terms of engaging users and smooth interaction. | A polished, need- or experience-focused system that instantiates particularly innovative and/or effective designs. |
| Video demonstration (10%) |
Did you clearly demonstrate your design and its usefulness? | The video shows us that you had a working prototype. | The video clearly demonstrates not just the base functionality, but also the usefulness of the solutions. | An engaging, creative video demonstrating your designs in a realistic scenario and context of use. |