GD 67 Group Presentations

Group Presentations will occur over the next several weeks. In Group Presentations we’ll define and discuss the process documents and “deliverables” for a website redesign. These presentations serve as short, instructional “workshops,” and we’ll create these documents as part of our weekly assignments.

Presentations must answer the following questions:

What is it? Why is this document important?
When in the design process do you create this?
How do you create it or complete it and why? Teach us the basics.
Your group must base the presentation on the resources listed below for your topic.
Provide 1-2 new resources we can use. Make sure the resources are specific to Web Design and/or Websites. Please go over your new resources with me before your presentation if you’re not sure.

Guidelines

All team members must speak during the presentation.
Your group has a total of 15 minutes (plus a 5 minute Q & A) to present, so be sure to use your time wisely.
Please refer to online resources and “Google it.” This is an exercise on doing research and finding resources on the Web.
Think of this as a short “workshop” to present and teach us the basics, so come with samples, examples, visuals, and handouts.
Please post any visuals you use in the presentation to one team member’s WordPress blog so the class can access the materials.

Why the heck are we doing this?

The reasoning behind the group presentations is that this is an exercise in working in teams, an opportunity to practice leadership, practice presenting in front of others, and teaching others, to learn by doing, and to “do research” and find answers on the Web… all of these are things that will be helpful to your career, trust me.

About “doing research”

Over the life of your career, you’ll have multiple situations when you need to learn how to do something you’ve never done before “on-the-fly,” or learn something you don’t know anything about. This will happen all the time.

Take the opportunity to practice “doing research,” finding more information about subjects you’re unfamiliar with and things you don’t know how to do. Fortunately we have the “world at our fingertips” so a good place to start is with the Web. Here are some suggestions:

Google it. (enough said)
Look it up in Wikipedia.
Refer to the resources we’ve discussed in class.
Search for the topic on Twitter. (You may be surprised…)
Try searching for closely related terms (in this case terms such as information architecture, user experiences (ux), process documents, etc.
Read How to Find Anything Online: Become an Internet Research Expert (thanks, Webdesigner Depot!)