Meeting 7 Agenda

Meeting Info

• Zoom Meeting Link
• Monday, August 7 at 1pm

Objectives

• Design Process: Define project goals, Audience, Solutions/Deliverables
• Concepts: Semantic, Information Design vs Data Viz
• Define and discuss next steps

Activities

Discussion/Collective Brainstorm

Big Picture (15 mins)

Use the chat and designate a notetaker.

• What is the overarching problem we are trying to solve here?
• Who is the audience? Or audiences we are trying to reach?
• Are we looking in right place (orientation)?
• Have we correctly identified the problem?
• What should a new student DO/THINK/FEEL during and after Orientation/Welcome Day?
  • What do you know now, that you wish you knew when you started at City Tech?
  • What questions didn’t get answered as a new student?
  • What should the Orientation experience and materials include? 
  • What should the day/experience look like?
  • What information/feeling do we want students to leave the Orientation with – or access independently, if they don’t attend Orientation.
  • What actions do we want students to take after Orientation – or in their first semester of school?

Project Design/Solutions (Three Groups – Breakout Rooms 15-20 min)

Choose one of the following to explore or something else! Be sure to consider the above questions.

• Design a Informational Guide for new students (print, digital, interactive, AR, VR, etc)
  • This is Colgate (Pentagram Casestudy: Viewbook for Colgate University)
  • MyCoach (Ideo Casestudy: Helping Students Navigate College and Beyond )
  • ViewAR (Better orientation on campus with augmented reality indoor navigation – Library Example– Youtube)
• Design an Informational Experience for new students (re-design the orientation, hack-a-thon, scavenger hunt, fair, virtual reality experience, AR game, etc)
  • Scavify (Scavenger hunt app – 24 Scavenger Hunt Ideas for College Students)
  • Weeks of Welcome + Virtual Orientation + App (Virgina Tech offers hybrid orientation options)

Intern Group Sayback (15 min)

• Present your group’s project ideas

Discussion: Define the Class Project Deliverable (10 min)

• Case Study for College stake holders using StoryMaps?
  Create a pitch for the College to improve materials distributed to new students and the overall experience for new students. Call attention to where information materials and experience falls short.
  • Use storytelling to highlight the experiences of new students with user personas.
  • Define the problems based on survey data and materials collected
  • Present the solution(s) using information design and visualization techniques
• Create a Story Map by logging in with your CUNY login.

Presentation: Introduction to Information Design and Storytelling (Next Week)

• Discussion of W. E. B. Du Bois’ Hand-Drawn Infographics of African-American Life
• Overview of the The Data Visualisation Catalogue
• Introduction to Information Design Storytelling (PDF)

Discussion: Upcoming City Tech Orientation (5 min)

• August 17th – Tech and Design Orientation
  • Handout that the Office of Student Life has sent out via mail to new students.
  • QR code points to: The New Student Orientation Fall ’23 doc
  • Note: QR codes without URL are not accessible. Handout should also include basic info (times and location).
• Email Vanessa Villanueva in the Office of Student Life & Development to inquire about distributing the Orientation Exit Survey at the upcoming School of Tech & Design Connect Day
  • Irin, Erikson and Abraham to coordinate with Or
• Review Student orientation survey questions (Dropbox – pdfs) from Fall 16 to Fall 19. Where is the data?? Ask Vanessa or Yimi for data
• Adjust survey, if needed.
• How to distribute the survey?

Next Steps?

• Based on brainstorm today, meet with your group
• Review and analyze data from surveys and collected materials
• Identify the problems
• Present solutions next week in outline form: overview, problems addressed, deliverables, schedule, assigned tasks for each group member, due date

To-Do For Next Meeting

Read/Watch:

A Brief History

• Friendly, M. & Denis, D. J. (2001). Milestones in the history of thematic cartography, statistical graphics, and data visualization. Web document, Accessed: August 6, 2023. Chapters: “Introduction” and “1850-1899: Golden Age of data graphics“
• Michael Friendly. The Golden Age of Statistical Graphics. In Statistical Science, vol. 23, no. 4, pp. 502–535, 2008.

Recommended reading if you want to learn more about WEB DuBois and his Infographics of African-American Life:
Forrest S, Jason. The Data Visualizations of W.E.B. Du Bois. Six-part Series: June 18, 2018.

Complete:

1. Meet with your group to outline your Project in a shared Google Doc.
   • Overview, problems addressed, solutions/deliverables (in detail), timeline/schedule, assigned tasks for each group member, due date
   • Template
   • Explore the Story Map Gallery and create a test Story Map to see if this format will work for final Project Case Study presentations
2. Required Week 7 Journal Entry: Create a Post using the Category: Journal.
   Include the following:
   • Write a brief reflection on today’s lecture/discussion and the readings/media
   • Link to your Project Google Doc
   • Share links to any web resources, definitions, media, tutorials, or tools to add to the Course Resources on the Model Course Site.
3. Add 5 terms to the Glossary post (term, definition and source)
4. Submit the checklist below to document your contributions this week

Zoom Recording 

Zoom link to Week7’s meeting – 08/07/23
Passcode: NeM9Ub#e