Assignment for Unit Project 3
Due November 16 at class.
Background
Read carefully the brief excerpt from David Gelernter's Mirror Worlds handed out in class October 12. Assume this text is an article written by the head of your company. It's the last beautiful days of autumn in the previous century and s/he has $8 million of recklessly ventured capital burning a hole in the balance sheet. You're the Chief Information Designer and freestyle storyboarder nonpareil. To you falls the task of creating a one-sheet storyboard suitable for display at client and investor pitches.
This storyboard must convey the Visionary's ideas as clearly and powerfully as possible. Or to put this more usefully, it must show how a hypothetical user could exploit the Mirror World information environment: what the experience will be like and what s/he will be able to gain from it.
Note: no Mirror World software exists yet. No clients, no servers, nothing. So you have a free hand to invent but also no technical specifications from which to work.
Further note: since you are a good person with a spotless conscience whose integrity you want to protect, you don't want to design anything that can't be built with reasonably current technology. Software engineers come into this eventually and you will not be allowed to leave the premises when they do. (Though for our purposes "current" can mean 2002, not 1999.)
Design Parameters
Since this storyboard is meant for display rather than technical development you may use all techniques of layout and arrangement available to you in previous assignments. The "single sheet" requirement may be interpreted vigorously but not loosely. You may use a large sheet of Bristol board or foamcore (black, please) but only one such sheet.
You may use words as well as images in this assignment.
