As part of your final project, I’d like you to create a designed presentation that highlights your concept and process. The deck should be part of your design, meaning the design language should match whatever it is you’re talking about.
Technical Specs
Landscape orientation optimized for screen. 16:9 or 16:10 aspect ratio. Example: 1920 x 1080 px.
Google slides, PDF, InVision, Sketch cloud are all fine options. I’d use Google Slides if you have animation.
Smaller than 10mb please.
Tips
Practice going through your presentation before the day of the critique. You’ll have about 10 minutes for your presentation(aim for about 6/7 of you talking)
Aim for a mostly visual presentation. OK to have some slides with type, but you don’t want to read the presentation to us. We want to listen to you and see a visual that supports whatever you’re talking about.
Avoid Book Report Syndrome. Try not to“check all the boxes” of the requirements and instead aim to walk us through the narrative of your project. Show the highlights and visualize your process.
Content
Everyone’s project will have a different technique. If you’re not sure where to start, here are a few sections you could use to structure your presentation.
Title(NOT“Web 3.0 Swatch”)
Idea: Visualize what your idea is. Consider a few typographic slides that highlight your concept or highlight the problem you’re exploring through a few photos that you can speak to.
Research & Strategy: Highlight what you observed through making this. Talk about the key insights of your research. What was missing? Where is there an opportunity to do something new?
Creative Direction: You can think of this as a mood board or visual research section. What was the overarching theme for the visual design? Why did that feel appropriate? How does that connect to your concept?
Process: Visualize how you started or the evolution of your project if it’s helpful. Consider highlighting the audience, what they’re interested in looking at, a site map, user flow, and wireframes.
Visual System: Show off the different elements that highlight your system. You can think about the colors, type hierarchy, image treatments, iconography etc.
Prototype: Link out to your prototype(either online or in Sketch Cloud or in InVision)
Examples of Nicely Designed Decks
Melisa Ozkan, Paula Volchok and Madison Bozinoff’s presentations
Carly Ayres on Emailing(This one is meant to be read, so there’s more text on the slides than what we need)
Nika to share a few student presentations from other projects(Rutgers: social network project, junk mail project, Parsons: mobile design’18 yuqi, mobile design 17)
🟡 For homework, please complete a draft of your presentation so that I can give you feedback. On Thursday, we’re not meeting in the video chat. You’ll submit your presentation on Slack and I’ll send you feedback. I’ll also have office hours if you’d like to meet that day but not required. I’ll post a message in the general channel on Thursday to sign up for meetings – if you know you’ll want one, just post a message there today.
🟡Final project is due on Friday! The critique will be hosted in my Zoom link(will be posted on Friday’s agenda).
Guest Critic Reveal
Aside from Dylan and myself, we’ll have the very talented:
Rachael Yaeger
Rachael Yaeger is originally from upstate New York, near the Adirondacks. She is the co-founder of and lead producer at Human NYC along with Michael Ray, co-founder and tech lead. Human NYC has been working with clients for seven years helping to craft brands and build digital experiences. We believe in being nice and putting the right people on the right projects on the right platforms. Aside from Human Rachael is also the co-founder of Likeminds a conference-meets-festival, theworkingpair.com, wildfruits.co and bagggy.co
Unrelated Note
Final Presentation Notes
Technical Specs
Tips
Content
Examples of Nicely Designed Decks
🟡 For homework, please complete a draft of your presentation so that I can give you feedback. On Thursday, we’re not meeting in the video chat. You’ll submit your presentation on Slack and I’ll send you feedback. I’ll also have office hours if you’d like to meet that day but not required. I’ll post a message in the general channel on Thursday to sign up for meetings – if you know you’ll want one, just post a message there today.
🟡Final project is due on Friday! The critique will be hosted in my Zoom link (will be posted on Friday’s agenda).
Guest Critic Reveal
Rachael Yaeger