Week 14
Soft week We got hit really hard for softs this, we have a long list of things we need to change and improve on before finals rolls around. First of all, the guided tour UI and storyline content isn’t working for the audience and that’s something we don’t have time to work on anymore. We’ll […]
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This week we’re gearing up for our softs presentation. We have had to make a lot of changes over the last week to polish the experience. Especially for the guided tour, as we are still struggling to find a way to present this format to the audience. We reduced the number of clicks down to […]
Read More →Week 12
This week we encountered a bunch of difficulty on the tech end, and we’re trying to figure out how we can solve this problem. Our UI designer would import everything into the system and when we put it onto the actual device, it’ll be all wrong.
Read More →Week 11
Getting ready to install, and contacting Randy’s family We got a surprise message from Randy’s sister, Tammy Pausch who expressed interest in helping us with the project. She gave us a lot of guidelines of who Randy was, and a bunch of photos and stories that we can include into the experience. It was a […]
Read More →Week 10
Moving along! This week we had a lot of major decisions made for the project, first we had the faculty come in and look at our large pyramid markup. And the faculty thought that the one sided plane projection is probably the better option for us to use in keep us in scope and […]
Read More →Week 9
We’re getting closer! This week is really hectic for us. We were finally getting all the content we can get, understanding all the footage we got, polishing the website, and getting the kiosk design ready to go for our halves presentation. And this is how things look like now: UI designs Before: After: Kiosk layout […]
Read More →Week 8
This week we focused making the final prototype of the kiosk, the theme of the installation, our story, and our website look. We have worked out with ETC that the kiosk will be placed at the 3rd floor alcove and the theme will be a timeline idea of things that happened in Randy’s lifetime, which […]
Read More →Week 7
This week we finally had a finalized location as to where our kiosk location will be. The 3rd floor alcove where we’ll get a lot of space to decorate the environment around the kiosk. The first thing we came up with was the star trek theme, so we looked into a lot of sci-fi looking […]
Read More →Week 6
Post-Quarters After our quarters presentation, we got our feedback from the faculty and used it to plan towards halves. The team started to sense a huge level of pressure and baggage at quarters when we saw the reaction from the faculty, especially the ones who are close friends and colleagues with Randy Pausch. With the […]
Read More →Week 5
This is the week of quarters, our ideas have taken a rough shape and the team has started to create prototypes, stories and art styles around our idea. Zhen built a holographic effect pyramid, Vivienne built her first draft on the experience UI, Chris took his first stab at the storyboard and how it should […]
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