Week 15 + Onward And just like that we’ve reached the end! Before Fall Festival, we worked on onboarding for our experience. We: Changed the hints to be larger and shortened to 3 calls to action Added hidden interaction of when the guest turns the whole wall a color, it Read more…
Week 14 This Monday was Soft Opening, where ETC teams demo their projects to faculty! We transported our installation back from the MuseumLab to our project room for feedback. For soft opening, we provided faculty with personas to embody during their play. These personas were decided based upon the demographics Read more…
Week 13 This week was our final week of playtesting at the MuseumLab! It’s been incredibly helpful to our design to be able to iterate over the course of the week. We returned to the Museum a few times this week to observe and make adjustments, and then also playtested Read more…
Week 12 Early Monday morning, we transported our baby to the MuseumLab for two weeks of playtesting and QA. We strapped her in real tight to the back of Emily’s husband’s truck and made it all there in one piece (thank you Chris)! We placed our installation in the Tech Read more…
Week 11 This week in FAB, Marissa and Emily removed all of the modules to stain and apply polyurethane to the frame. Also by recommendation of Ruth, they bolted in the legs to create a sturdier base. They also worked on attaching the modules semi-permanently for playtesting at the MuseumLab Read more…
Week 10 This week was all fabrication and tech as we prepared for ETC Playtest Day on Saturday. We were so excited that we got our entire installation up and running on the first try! After all of our planning, and perfection of the fab/tech on our two goldspikes, we Read more…
Week 9 We started off this week with a check-in with the MuseumLab staff. Emily and I met with Chip Lindsey (Director of Education), Anne Fullenkamp (Director of Design), and Katie Koffler (Educational Partnerships Manager) to update them on our design. We brought our prototypes to demo. They were really Read more…
Week 8 We’re halfway there! This week was halves. We spent the weekend and the beginning of the week preparing our presentation and perfecting our demo. You can watch our presentation here: Some of the questions that we got during the presentation and our responses below: Length of engagement and Read more…
Week 7 Fab + Tech We pushed this week to get our second goldspike up and running for playtesting on Friday (see more on playtesting results below). Marissa and Emily fabricated three plywood modules. Originally, we had fabricated the modules out of MDF, but after a visit with fabricators at Read more…
Week 6 Fabrication + Tech As promised, we finished our first gold spike! This was our first attempt at combining together the hardware and the fabrication. See our baby below: As mentioned in last week’s blog we were testing the following: Size of the cubbies (how big does the cubby Read more…