Monday, May 18, 2009

Final Presentation DATE!!!

Hello MESO clients!
The PSU interactive teams would like to invite MESO and the clients to a final presentation and launch of the new websites for Clear Reflections Counseling, Soul Chain Boutique, Imagination Station.  

Date: June 1st Time: 9.30 am- 11.50 
Place: PSU, Art Building, RM 135 2000 SW 5th Ave.  

We look forward to seeing you there!

Tuesday, May 5, 2009

Job

We are a small company here in Portland and would like our website redesigned. This would be a terrific contract position for a grad student or a graduate who wants to build out the web part of their portfolio. The contractor would do the work outside of our offices and present design pieces as they are finished.



We have a programmer who can set up the design work as asp. pages; he codes HTML etc. so you don't have to be able to do the HTML BUT you must be able to design something that is web workable. If this is of interest, please send me examples of your design skills and at least a couple of websites you have designed . If it looks like there could be a fit, I'll send you the creative brief, it is long but very exacting with regard to the outcomes we are looking to achieve.

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for companies serious about the customer experience



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Wednesday, April 22, 2009

Tech Demo Presentations

The presentations will occur the second half of class, after client meetings:

Monday, April 27th: Dylan
Topic: Overview of CSS

Wednesday, April 29th: Scott
Topic: Rollover buttons CSS

Monday, May 4th, 10.30 am- Guest Kristin Boden-MacKay, Director of PSU Communication department,
Topic: Content Management Systems

Wednesday, May 6th: Liz 
Topic: Search Engine Optimization

Monday, May 11th: Chelsea
Topic: Photo gallery slideshows,  javascripts, flickr, picasso and other resources

Sunday, April 19, 2009

April 20th

After clients leave, I would like to make a technical presentation schedule together.

Team Schedules: Clients in class

Team A: Clear Reflections
April 22- meeting with Hanna
May 4 - present layouts to client

Team B: Imaginary Station
April 27- meeting with Brandi on Monday
May 18- meeting with Brandi 

Team C: Soul Chain
April 20 - Meeting with Mona @ 9:30am 
May 4 - Meeting with Mona @ 9:30am
May 18 - Meeting with Mona @ 9:30am

Tuesday, April 14, 2009

Enhanced Google Analytics

http://www.juiceanalytics.com/openjuice/

read up.

Tuesday, April 7, 2009

April 8th

Group  B will be on a field trip to their clients' place of business- Imagination Station. We will be looking forward to the update next Monday. 

For the other two groups, we will be making site maps for the clients and working on the production timeline in class. I will meet with each group to review these documents. 

Monday, April 6, 2009

Everyone, Please Reply to Post

List of tutorials you would like to see. Dreamweaver or code or tools:
1.
2.
3.
4.



Tutorial Demonstration / Presentation
What aspect of web technology would you like to demonstrate? It might be something you don’t know and you take the time to research and learn it, and show the class.

List three ideas.
1.
2.
3.

Sunday, April 5, 2009

April 6th

1. Meet with MESO clients.

Be ready to sit down with our clients. Be prepared with questions and use positive language. Remember that the client is also part of your team. Listen to them and make suggestions. Educate them as you go. Part of our job as Designers is to show our client the value of our ideas. This is educating them about design, communicating and defining their message, business and audience.

2. Summarize our team meetings with class and come up with the next step in out process.
  • finish client profile and post to team blogs
  • start the production timeline and deliverables
  • site map deliverable to client
  • site map sign-off
  • set up Word doc for collecting copy digitally 
  • copy and images due dates
  • first round design ideas - logo and branding 

Tuesday, March 31, 2009

Wednesday, April 1st

To Do List:
  1. create individual blog accounts and send URL to Michelle
  2. collect e-mail addresses
  3. team leader schedule
  4. tutorials and dates
  5. contact clients-email has been sent, make direct calls to Imagination Station and Soul Chain
  6. teacher evaluation and % of grade
  7. prepare for client meeting
  8. use Client Profile WorkSheet and have questions for client

Monday, March 30, 2009

Teams and Client

Group A - Client: Clear Reflections
Dylan
KIm
Sylvia

Group B - Client: Imagination Station
Michael
Chelsea
Jeremy

Group C - Clients: Soul Chain
Elizabeth
Scott
Nicole

Tuesday, March 24, 2009

Client Profile and Project Brief Worksheet

WORKSHEET EXAMPLE
Use this outline to create a profile of your client. You will hand in a typed document  along with your comparative research.


Client Profile

Business Name:
Business Owner:
Business Address:

phone:
email:
web:

overview:
• product/service
• features

Business Category:

Target Audience[s]:

Philosophy/history
• mission
• years in business
• trends

Competitive Advantage:

Business Obstacles:

Employees:

Primary Message:

Existing Marketing Materials:

Proposed Deliverables:

Research:
• Local Competition; sight website
• Nation Like-Business; sight website

Technology Overview:

Content Recommendation:

Budget: Mock budget
Design a break down of types of roles in a site and who will be proving what and the cost involved.

Client Presentations dates:

Deliverable dates:
• Clients
• Designer/Developer

Sitemap Creation:
Design a visual site map for all content links/pages

Site Concept and Goals:
• How does it alliegn with current business plan?
• What suggestion do we have for positioning the business for a online audience?

Monday, March 23, 2009

Make Teams

We will be working in teams. Let us designate teams based on knowledge, skills, gender. Each team will assign a different team leader throughout the term. It is up to each team to determine the order and length of the “team leader” role. Please submit this list to Michelle.

Peer Evaluation

As teams and a class, we will define and outline our definition of what it means to ”participate” in a team.

What is participation?
What are behaviors of participation?
What does it mean to be a team leader?

How do we evaluate your team member participation?
How do we evaluate your team leader? Is there different criteria, behaviors, or skills to be evaluated?

Create a scale system [point system] and evaluation items based on how we define participation?

An evaluation of each team member needs to submitted at the end of team leader rotation. Evaluated your team leader and your team members. Your peer evaluation will be part of final individual course grade.

RESULTS

Team Participation
  1. Meet deadlines
  2. Communication
  3. Contribution
  4. Listening Skills
  5. Being Adaptive
  6. Participation
  7. Motivation
  8. Process

Leadership by Example
  1. Team Motivator
  2. Initiative
  3. Delegation Skills
  4. Guidance

Comments:

Scale: 0-5




Technical tutorials

We all come into this course with a various skill set and technical skills. Each of us has strengths and weakness when it comes to web site design skills and website technical skills. The most important thing to remember is that we are all working a team. We learn from each other, we share information with each other, we learn together and we will make a project together. Let’s determine what additional technical skills each of you would like to work on and set up a schedule for doing tutorials. We will be using Dreamweaver as our primary WYSIWY editor tool. Some of you might wish to use other tools. You are welcome to use any tool you need to. Just keep in mind that documents will be shared with other and the team need to agree on the tools for development from the beginning. There are lots of ways to program and develop a site. There are a lot of available technology too. It's important to develop the site within your ability as a team.

Start by making a list of skills you would like to learn or review. I would like to have everyone lead the class through a tutorial. It is an important skill to have when working as a team. Learn to communicate skills and teach others as, other will teach you along the way. We will make a schedule for the tutorials and presenters.

For example, 

Dreamweaver Skills:
1. Sprys
2. AP Elements and divs
3. CSS for fonts 
4. CSS positioning
5. CSS rollover images
Tutorial : http://www.webcredible.co.uk/user-friendly-resources/css/rollover-buttons.shtml

Photoshop Skills:
  1. slice tool
  2. image compression
  3. file formats

Course Calendar

This calendar will be updated daily. I will be enter dates for client presentation s and meeting when we determine them as teams.


Week One

March 3- First Day of Class
  • introductions
  • meet MESO
  • introduce client project
  • read Course Blog together
  • create individual blog accounts and send URL to Michelle
  • collect e-mail addresses
  • art server/course folder
  • hand out reading from In the Bubble, by John Thackra pgs 96-100 105-134
  • make teams
  • define words
  • make peer evaluation


April 01
  1. create individual blog accounts and send URL to Michelle
  2. collect e-mail addresses
  3. team leader schedule
  4. tutorials and dates
  5. contact clients-email sent make calls
  6. teacher evaluation and % of grade
  7. prepare for client meeting
  8. use Client Profile WorkSheet and have questions for client


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Week Two

April 06
Clients in Class- Clear Reflections is confirmed to come in.



April 08
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Week Three

April 12
April 14
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Week Four

April 20
Team C is meeting with Mona April 20 @ 9:30

April 22
TEAM A is meeting with Hanna @ 9: 30
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Week Five

April 27
Team B is meeting with Brandi on Monday, April 27.


April 29
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Week Six

May 04
May 06
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Week Seven

May 11
May 13
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Week Eight

May 18
Team B is meeting with Brandi on Monday, May 18.
May 20
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Week Nine

May 25 Holiday No Class
May 27
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Week Ten

June 01

June 03 No class due to Sophomore Portfolio Review
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IMPORTANT DATES:

Sophomore Portfolio Review Dates
June 03 - 04

Final Exam Week
June 8-13

Grading Policy

1. Peer Evaluations
At the end of the term all your points will be totaled up and divided by the total number of evaluations for an average Number, on  0-5 scale.  At Mid Term I will hand back individual evaluations so that everyone knows what your mid-term grade is.

Team Participation
Meet deadlines
Communication
Contribution
Listening Skills
Being Adaptive
Participation
Motivation
Process

Leadership by Example
Team Motivator
Initiative
Delegation Skills
Guidance

Comments:

Scale: 0-5
0=Withdraw from class.
1=F
2=D
3=C
4=B
5=A

2. Instructor Evaluations

Quality of investigations
  1. Visual explorations
  2. Technical investigation

Articulation of work
  1. Final visuals
  2. Presentations
  3. Technical tutorial
  4. Blog contribution

Communication
  1. With team
  2. With client
  3. With instructor

Motivation

  1. team member collaboration
  2. individual

3. Final Hand In 
Final Hand-In of all work and design mock-ups need to be submitted in the course Hand-In folder on the Art Server. Late hand-ins will receive a deduction. I will have more specific instructions when it is closer to the end of the term.

4. Attendance
Your final grade with reflect either a deduction because of absences or remained unchanged. Please make sure you read the attendance policy. If you have any questions regarding how many absences you have, please feel feel to ask.

MESO Clients

MESO - http://mesopdx.org/

The Micro Enterprise Services of Oregon seeks to broaden economic opportunities for underserved entrepreneurs by providing business support to increase growth in income, assets, and business skills.

Clients

Imagination Station
Brandi Webber
brandi6622@msn.com
(503) 283-0229
www.imaginationstationdaycare.com

Soul Chain
Mona McDonald
mona@soulchainboutique.com
(503) 243-5060
www.soulchainboutique.com

Dunbar Fine Art
James Dunbar
JamesDunbar_artist06@yahoo.com
(971) 270-6809
www.dunbarsfineart.net

Dancing Tree Herbals
Hanna Jordan
hannajordancounseling@gmail.com
(503) 453-5708
www.dancingtreeherbals.com

Clear Reflections Counseling
Hanna Jordan
hannajordancounseling@gmail.com
(503) 453-5708
www.clearreflectionscounseling.com