You must have a minimum of five (5) functional pages of your prototype. One of these pages must include the homepage of your redesign. If you are working with another member of your original collaboration, each of you must undertake a page of your site. Meaning, if you are working as a team of three – that’s 15 pages altogether. From the sitemaps, there are more than enough pages to be produced. Once you lock down your templates – then coding additional pages isn’t rough anyways – it’s just re-populating content. You’re just changing assets.

The additional criteria must be met to satisfy the requirements of the midterm:

1. Your website should demonstrate your knowledge of xhtml and css, and preapartion of web-ready assets
2. Your website includes a copyright to your name and Parsons The New School for Design
3. All unoriginal resources (images, videos, artwork) must be credited
4. Markup on all pages must validate. This should have been a requirement or demonstrated in labs.
5. Website must be compatible across major browsers, specifically:
   • Firefox (Mac/PC)
   • Safari
   • IE 7, 8 (PC labs in 55 West 13th Street. View map.)
   • Chrome

Midterm Presentation Expectations

When I invite outside critics, talk about your project with just enough detail where you don’t bore the audience to death. Critics as well as myself aren’t interested in typography, hex color values, or how you set up your code or tags. For the love of God, no one wants to hear you speak about how you worked Photoshop or Illustrator. If you do start jabbering, I will interrupt and ask you move on.

We want to be educated on the content and process.When you present, the following things would be great for your audience to hear:

1. What’s your name?
2. Who’s your organization?
3. Where is your organization located and what is the purpose/mission of the institute?
4. What does having a website mean to this organization? Where does it help them in terms of communication? What do they leverage from on online presence? TELL ME.
5. What was wrong with the current online presence? SHOW ME (either screenshots or screencast – do not pull up the actual website)
6. How did you develop your redesign? SHOW ME – user profile, cognitive map, sitemap, styleframes
7. What did your prototype? SHOW ME – Now you can pull up the browser with your demo
8. Explain your usability testing. What did your user-test reveal? What’s working, what’s not?
9. Evaluate yourself. Where do you think there is still a need for discovery?

What I’m listening to at work right now:

Grasscut – ‘High Down’ (Promo) by Ninja Tune

Order of Presentations

Presenter #01: Ann McKendrick, Jennifer Shim, Kyung Won Yang

Presenter #02: Shaobo Han

Presenter #03: Richard Pean

Presenter #04: Cynthia Bacall

Presenter #05: Lauren Hodges, Erica Efstratoudakis, Bryan Meador

Presenter #06: Michael Zoppo

Presenter #07: Will Warner

Presenter #08: Elizabeth Rodriguez

Presenter #09: Heewon Han, Seoyeon Cho

Presenter #10: Hoang Nguyen

Presenter #11: Elizabeth Bates

Presenter #12: Leigh Blechman

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