RMCAD and Markit on Demand collaboration

Prototyping Education:
A Case Study in IxD
Instruction
RMCAD + Markit on Demand
Eric Lennert - Creative Director Markit on Demand

Friday, September 30, 2011

How to Teach 14 Students with 30 Designers


RMCAD

Hello?


RMCAD

Hello?
Markit on Demand

Hey


14 Interaction Design Students


First things ﬁrst...
(Who are you guys and why did Fred Murrell call you?)


MARKIT ON DEMAND on
map


+ Founded in 1992 on Madison Ave. NYC

+ 400 Person design driven technology company

+ Focused on the display and delivery of complex data

+ 30 Designers creating interactive and visualization
work for web, desktops, media and mobile


CNN -


GS - REDI app pages


BGOV


INFOVIS


In 2005 we began an internship program with RMCAD


INTERNSHIP screen


Back to the class...
(How do we go about teaching Interaction Design?)


“Teamsource”


Continuity?


Continuity?
Participation?
Participation?


Continuity?
Participation?
Curriculum?


Continuity
Who’s leading the class, where’s the relationship?


Participation
Shared Teaching Responsibilities
Mentor Groups


Curriculum
What’s the right subject matter?


Curriculum
What’s the right subject matter?

4D’s
Curriculum?
Participation?


Deﬁne Identify a problem to solve, who
the solution is for, and why you’re
Design creating it.
Develop

Deploy


Deﬁne

Design Translate a strategy & goals into
something tangible.
Develop

Deploy


Deﬁne

Design

Develop Translate design ideas into a
built solution
Deploy


Deﬁne

Design
Convey your design to an
Develop audience, while considering the
technological and economic
Deploy implications of the solution.


Class Goals
+ Develop an understanding of interaction design methods & incorporate those
methods into a ﬂexible design process.

+ Develop design skills through modeling, diagramming and other means of rapid
prototyping to help explain systems, interactions and behaviors.

+ Understand the complete lifecycle of an idea and learn how design can lead
concepts through a project’s entire lifecycle.

+ To design interactions for products, experiences and applications that demonstrates
an understanding of structure, narrative and human-computer interaction
principles.

+ To gain experience evaluating design ideas from an economic point of view and to
understand the full effect of a design solution along with its positioning and
presentation.


Deﬁne Week 1
2
Creating a concept
Mapping ideas
3 Understanding Users
4 Evaluation (at MOD)

Design Week 5
6
Outlining a process
Prototyping
7 Sketching with code
8 Evaluate & reﬁne
9 Assess economics & realities (at MOD)

Develop Week 10 Interaction modeling & display on the web
11 Physical interfaces & interactions
12 Creating a documentation to communicate solutions

Deploy Week 13 Presenting & implementation
14 Listening to your users
15 Final presentation strategies (at MOD)


Mapping Ideas


Understanding Users


Outlining A Process


Rapid Prototyping


Physical Interfaces


Class Case Study: Sketching with Code

Sketching with Code


Team Projects


Final Presentations


Critique


How’d it go?
(Everyone learned something new)


Student Feedback

“Awesome class with lots of
opinions and views”

“I really liked how the class
was laid out”

“You guys should do this more
often - I learned alot”


Student Feedback

“Wish we had more time
to work”

“It’s really difficult for some
students to go to Boulder
for event presentations”

“Needed more in-class
work time”


What might we do differently next time?

+ Hone the syllabus - more work exercises, less lecture time.

+ Better coordinate hand-offs from class to class for better continuity.

+ Incorporate more individual projects in conjunction with group work.

+ Plan for a better evaluation system for each class session.


Was it worth it in the end? YES!

+ Our design team was motivated to get out of the ofﬁce and into the classroom.

+ Helped us formalize some elements of our design process.

+ We were able to meet new designers and learn from them.

+ We gained two new designers!


Thank you.


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