Discovery Labs
Homework 13
Portfolio
Introduction
You’ve just finished a whirlwind 8 weeks of work on a creative project. As I have mentioned time and time again, It’s important to summarize your work in a way that allows you to re-use the content for a variety of situations.
Instructions
This final assignment is for you. Your goal is to capture some of the work you’ve done to date, in a way that will help you better present this to the world. Future employers, graduate programs, grandparents, etc…
You’ll be creating a portfolio entry to summarize your work over the past 3 weeks within the context of the project. Before you do that:
Visit the following portfolios:
- Jinooh Suh — Masters Candidate, UW Human Centered Design: https://jihoonsuh.com/
- Hakkim El Hattab — Front End Developer: https://hakim.se/
- Teresa Wojcicka — Illustrator and Graphic Designer: https://teresawojcicka.com/
These are portfolio sites of a number of creative professionals and students. I included a student portfolio (Jinooh Suh) so you can get a sense of the level of polish expected in student work. You don’t get to this stage immediately, but take a look at this project: https://jihoonsuh.com/momentbrew/ — it has some relevance, specifically in how they document their paper prototype:
Do these things:
- Create a GitHub repository (call it portfolio).
npx create-react-app portfolio- Push your empty react app to your GitHub repository
- Now, author a single-page website with the following sections:
- Personal Statement — include a personal statement — this should be a single paragraph that provides an opportunity for you to present yourself, your background, your ideas, and your qualifications.
- Project Summary —summarize your project in no more than a few sentences. What did you build. You may choose to summarize your group project or your side project.
- Research — one paragraph describing your research methods and one or more paragraphs describing your key insights you discovered during your research. Include your paper prototypes, your literature review and any other observations in this section
- Prototype — A description of your prototype along with photos, videos or GIFs showing it in action. Include a link to your heroku app.
- Future Work — A paragraph outlining the future work you feel would be needed to take the prototype into a phase where it could be tested, refined and made ready for launch.
Here is a fantastic example of a research section, feel free to emulate this format.
- Deploy this to Heroku and post the link to your github and portfolio by Thursday, May 23rd.
