Prototype and Testing

As our team begin to turn our ideas into a concrete prototype, there were many questions that needed to be explored in order to help us develop the template tool that we had in mind for teachers.

Design Concept Critique

Our early design consisted of a system where: The format could be easily embedded to website like basic HTML or PDF…

Final Design Case

After months of iteration, we finally are able to present Guidely, our solution to MakerEd’s portfolio challenge.

The Problem

Students are creating great work that they want to share with others. Take Alex, a middle schooler. He is very…

Storyboarding

After we consolidated our design ideas, we made storyboards of our potential solutions. Below is the list of our storyboard ideas:

Discovery Phase

Before we began designing, within our problem space we did research within different settings with a variety of stakeholders. Our research includes a literature review of existing portfolio practices, directed storytelling from informal and formal organizations, contextual interviews with expert…

User Insight Boards

Inquiry and Cooperative Learning

Barron and Darling-Hammond state that inquiry-based learning with collaborative approaches are…

Understanding Users

In the second chapter of Cooper’s About Face: The Essentials of Interaction Design, he details the essentials of design…

Journey Mapping Game Board

After storyboarding separately, our team came together to share our ideas. We then deconstructed our storyboards to play a journey mapping game to further explore the different types of tools and interactions within our scenarios and user groups.