Week 9

Week 9 at the ETC is the Halves Presentation week for all project teams. It’s an important milestone in the ETC project journey and something that all project members take very seriously, as it could not only be a  crucial turning point of the project as we’re publicly presenting our work for the first time, but also the added weight-age of grades which are assigned to each of us based on the quality of our work and presentation.

City of Stars were the third team on Wednesday to present. We had demonstrated a little demo previously to our faculty, so armed with their tips and suggestions for an improved performance, we got set for our presentation. We had a video demo (which included Fangda acting as a user simulated in an external environment) which walked through all the interactions and pages we had prepared for Andy Warhol. We also mentioned in the presentation that our next celebrities would be Rachel Carson and Roberto Clemente who would soon feature in the app. I won’t go into much detail of what was entailed in our presentation as we’ve already covered all that in blogs from previous weeks.

We received good feedback from all those who watched us, and other than minor suggestions about the slides and the interface, our design was well approved and verified by those who were judging us on the quality of our product.  We were happy with this as we knew that our processes getting so far were in the right direction , and we could go full steam ahead to achieve our targets for the semester.

And that’s exactly what we did, as after a short mid-semester break, we put our noses down and got to work, as there was plenty to be done in time for our next major playtest at the end of next week. More on that then…