Design tasks (June 9 - 19, 2009)

Designer task list

Tasks for the next week and a half (i.e., until the all-hands meeting).

Everyone

- Read each other's scenarios, give feedback on the scenarios
- Research on museum visitors: browse through existing literature on visitors (e.g., http://www.visitorstudies.org), start thinking informally museum visitor personas (what are some broad-spectrum demographic categories, and what are their characteristics?)
- Research through the lens of pre-/post-/during museum experiences
- Thinking about how we can use our time with the partners/advisors (questions to ask, etc.)

Erin & Alison (exhibition designer mapping)

- Send exhibition designer mapping scenario to museum partners for feedback (McCord, DIA, MMI)
- Refine/second iteration of scenarios based on feedback
- Further conversations/research for understanding the exhibition designer wrt mapping

Dave & James (adult visitor mapping)

- Send adult mapping scenario to museums partners for feedback (McCord, DIA, MMI)
- Work on storyboard to support said scenario narrative
- Refine/second iteration of scenarios based on feedback

Alistair, Tona, & Muriel (education visitor mapping)

- Send education mapping scenario to museum partners for feedback (McCord, DIA, MMI)
- Work on storyboard to support said scenario narrative
- Refine/second iteration of scenarios based on feedback

James & Tona (mobile)

- Complete & refine McCord Museum iPhone artifact page scenarios (in-museum, out of museum)
- Complete & refine "general museum" mobile scenarios (in-museum, out of museum)
- Send scenarios to museum partners for feedback
- Work on wireframes to support one or two of the mobile scenarios

Other possible upcoming activities (post June 19)

- One more round of fresh scenarios
- Building first iteration of wireframes to support mapping scenarios
- Building first iteration of storyboards to support mobile scenarios