Representations

Why is this important? They appear everywhere in looking, designing, and the thing you’re making… for example: Requirements Analysis: users’ artifacts, your notes, your scenarios, ??? Designing: sketches, mock-ups, even Post-Its in project planning, ??? Your project: web content, icons, red/green LEDs, variable names, class hierarchies, ???

Why is this important? Is a video the same as being there? When we point at a picture and say “There is Joe”, what are we missing?

Representations How does your choice of media affect how you understand / are understood by others? –Issue for project –Issue for data collection –Issue for developing design –Issue for communicating to team Pictures ? Text ? Video ? Sketches ?

Representing people What is the measure of …

Exercise Imagine your Homework 1 scenario. Consider what it would look like if presented: As a video of the actual people. What more would you need to make it understood? As a video of dolls acting out the scenario. As a Flash animation.

Exercise Imagine your Homework 1 scenario. Consider what it would look like if presented: As a video of the actual people. What more would you need to make it understood? As a video of dolls acting out the scenario. As a Flash animation. TO DO: –Divide sheet of paper into 6 or 8 boxes –Illustrate HW 1 scenario as a comic book (graphic novel) –When done exchange with person next to you –I will randomly select people to explain what the scenario says

For Thursday Homework 2: HTA Read UE: Chapter 3 (if you haven’t already)