Assignment #14: Second Draft Critique - J4502-SS19/class GitHub Wiki

Overview

It's common in any design environment to give and get feedback, so this will give you some experience on how to write feedback for your classmates. So this assignment will give you a chance to do that. You'll need to pay attention during the presentations to write good feedback. These assignments will be shared with the groups, so keep that in mind.

Due date

This assignment is due by 5 p.m. on Monday, April 23

Points possible

25

What should you write?

Rob will assign project teams to critique other teams' sites. So, once you have your assignment, hit the link to your assigned group below and look at the site. Treat this like you did for your usability assignment: put yourself in the mindset of a user who's coming to this to _________ (whatever their site does). Pick a thing or two to do, then do them, and then write feedback based on what you saw.

Here are the assignments. Remember this is an individual assignment, but we're assigning who critiques who based on teams.

  • TBA

Here are the class project websites:

  • TBA

Do:

  • explain clearly your process to try to complete your task(s);

  • explain any roadblocks or issues you ran into along the way;

  • explain how design element helped or hindered you in reaching your goals;

  • take screenshots along the way and include them;

  • offer suggestions/examples from other sites when appropriate;

  • offer feedback that's useful (it would be better if ______)

Don't:

  • be abrasive or rude;

  • test things that are outside the scope of the site;

  • offer useless feedback (I don't like ______)

Turning it in

Write your critique on Medium, or your personal blog if you have one, and include screenshots of your process. Be sure to include the URL of the project you tested. If you have other suggested sites to look at, or solutions to try, include those as well.

Send your link to Rob via DM on Slack.

Note: Assignments not turned in by deadline will drop a letter grade for each day late.

tl;dr:

Critique another group's site, and post your critique on Medium. Worth 25 points, 2.5 percent of your semester grade.