Week 5

Week 5 is a pivotal period in an ETC Project semester, because week 5 is the quarters week. Quarters Walkarounds is when all the ETC Faculty and staff visit each of the projects and offer quick advice, in a 15 mins time-slot, before moving on to the next project. So this was a good chance to get a lot of early feedback for our project regarding the vision and direction of the design that we were making.

We prepared enough material to talk about our project for about 5 minutes, where we summarized our project, went through our playtests and show a little tech demo (we had the plaque set up in our room). It was a very busy period, but we were pleased with the outcome. We got a lot of initial thoughts from the faculty and they gave us plenty of things to think about, for now, and the future until the end of the project. Some of the notable things include emphasizing the fun parts of the project and making the experience such that people feel more connected to the city and the celebrities’ link with Pittsburgh.

We made a list of all the feedback we received and categorized them into “important”, “irrelevant” and  “keep in mind”. We then had more design sprints to re-work our potential user journey and experience. Find out more next week…

BONUS: Team photo!