Good news and bad news.

First the bad...
Many of you have come to me and asked for extensions on assignments for one reason or another. If you are among these students...

I will no longer be accepting any of the previously arranged extensions after Monday, 28 February.

As of 1:00 PM on 23 February, I have graded everything that I know about. If you are missing a grade in Carmen for anything you think you turned in please use the same structure that I outlined in the previous "Grades all caught up" post that was published on 25 January.

Now the good...
You have all been working very hard in class this quarter, and in general I am pretty happy with the results and outcomes that have come out of this blogging experiment that we have been on together. Partially as a thank you, but also to allow you to put your full efforts into the Coleman project, I have decided to do the following:

• Course Reflection 08 (CR08) has been cancelled. The full 10pts have already been added to your grades in Carmen.
• Course Reflection 09 (CR09) has been cancelled. The full 10pts have already been added to your grades in Carmen.
• Reading Reflection 09 (RR09) has been cancelled. The full 10pts have already been added to your grades in Carmen.
• Reading Reflection 10 (RR10) has been cancelled. The full 10pts have already been added to your grades in Carmen.

This means you have all been given 40 free points in the course.

Journals 08, 09, and 10 will stil be due as previously scheduled.
Reading Reflection 08 is still due on Monday, 28 February as previously scheduled.
Course Reflection 10 will still be due as previously scheduled.

To avoid confusion, these changes have been made to the Course Calendar. Please refer to it as there will be little tolerance at this point in the quarter for late assignments.

Day 16: A basic framework.

Agenda for today:

• General announcements.
• Sign the attendance sheet, if you do not, I do not know you are here.
• Get into your groups and get working on A05

After 15-20 minutes, I will start coming around to all the groups to talk to each team about where they are in the process. This discussion will start with your team telling me the answers to the following questions. Your team should be prepared to answer these quickly and concisely. Think "elevator speech."

• Who is coleman as your team sees them?
• Who is the user your team is targeting?
• Why does Coleman care about this user? How do you connect the user to Coleman?
• What user need(s) are you addressing or what user problem(s) are you aiming to solve?
• Why would Coleman be interested in addressing this need?

The questions can be answered in any order you like, but they all must be answered today. Only after answering these questions will I then listen to ideas of product, packaging, kiosk, or team issues, etc...

Assignment 05 (A05): Coleman for the Home - Example

Coleman Example Presentation

View more presentations from Gabe Tippery.

This example is a sort of "middle of the road" example. It is good, but there are things that could still be better about it. All names have been removed for privacy.

For example:

• the kiosk could have a bit more storage for product. Or they could have better explained where the additional product might be in relation to this kiosk.
• the team could have SHOWN the user rather than just explained in text.

Things they did really well though:

• Nice, organized story to their presentation.
• Consideration for the packaging to have a continued use.
• Overall visual unity to the entire proposal.
• Good balance of showing their process versus their end results. They did not show every step of their process, but they explained where important ideas came from.
• Really nice visuals and a realistic product, that also fit into a nice niche.

I hope that this example helps give you all a better idea of where this is heading.

Assignment 05 (A05): Coleman for the Home

Description

Coleman is the world’s leading manufacturer of camping gear and outdoor equipment, including tents, lanterns, stoves, coolers and sleeping bags. You have been tasked to create a concept proposal to launch Coleman into the HOME GOODS market. 


There will be three components to this proposal:
1) Conception of a new manufactured product.
2) Conception of the packaging of the product.
3) Conception of a small “pop-up” point-of-sale kiosk.



Process

1) Form teams and exchange names and contact information.


2) Research and discuss what you think about when you think about Coleman products:
- Types of products.
- Types of users.
- Impressions of brand and products.
- Possible areas of the home they can expand into.


3) Brainstorm and Define:
The user your team  will be designing for.
- Who are they and what needs do they have that you can address?
The product type your team will be designing.


4) Ideation of the three parts of the project:
The product    The packaging The kiosk


5) Concept Refinements. Narrow the best aspects of your ideations  into one concept including each of the three parts. Remember to focus on the overall unity of the parts, as well as the intended user and the Coleman brand.


6) Finalize your three part concept and present it in the best way you can. Utilize your teams abilities and resources to produce visuals (sketches, collages, models, etc...) that tell the story of the user and their relationship to your product, packaging, and point-of-sale kiosk to the best of your team’s abilities.
Each team will have 10 minutes to present their concept to the class.


Presentation Order / Due Dates

Presentations will be in class Monday, March 07 & Wednesday, March 09.


As groups were determined through random card selection, presentations will be given in numeric order with Aces high. This means that on Monday, March 07, Groups 2-8 will present and on Wednesday, March 09, Groups 9-A will present.


All documentation of Process and Presentation, along with team evaluations, will be due by 5:18 PM Monday, March 14.
Documentation of Process and Presentation will be turned in via Carmen Dropbox. One person on each team will be responsible for turning in the Documentation of Process and Presentation on behalf of their entire group.


Team Evaluations will be done online. (more info to come about these) Every person will be responsible for turing in one evaluation for every member of their group, including themselves (a self evaluation).