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Final Project Proposals

Your final project is a four week assignment to be completed in two stages (proposal and implementation). Proposals presentations will be over two weeks (Nov 15 and 22). Final project presentations will be Tuesday, Dec. 6.

The final project should be a creative project that builds off of or is inspired by the concepts we've covered this semester. You should feel free to think non-traditionally, projects do not need to be screen-based and there is no requirement to use a particular aspect of JavaScript or programming.

Final projects can be collaborations with anyone in any class. Final projects can be one part of a larger project integrated with a different class. Just be transparent about what you are doing.

Other notes:

  1. Keeping things simple and small in scope is a plus. If your project idea is a big one, consider documenting the larger idea but implementing just a small piece of it.
  2. Also think about making a final project for a small audience, even one single person like a family member or friend. . . or yourself. This can be a good way to focus your idea and design process. "Generalizing" the idea can come later (or maybe not at all.)

What you need to do now:

Put together final project proposal. It's up to you to best present your idea, but some things I would suggest putting together are:

  • Collect inspirations: How did you become interested in this idea? quotes, photographs, products, projects, people, music, political events, social ills.
  • Collect source material: drawings, images, videos, sounds, text
  • Collect code: your own sketches and/or other people's sketches.
  • Collect ideas for title
  • Collect ideas for 1-sentence description?
  • Context? Who's it for? How will people experience it? Is it interactive? Is it practical? Is it for fun? Is it emotional? Is it to provoke something?
  • Collect questions for your classmates.
    • What are you unsure of? Conceptually and technically.

Plan to present your idea in ~2-3 minutes leaving about 5 minutes for discussion.

Nov 15

Nov 22