The mockup review contributes to a portion of your section-wide grade. All course instructors will participate in the review process.

The review is comprised of two components: a structured presentation to the entire class, and a less-structured question-and-answer session in the Pappalardo lab. It takes place during the evening on the date indicated in the class schedule.

The presentation should focus on issues that are both potentially high-risk and critical to the concept.

The goal of the review is to inform classmates and instructors about the key challenges related to your section's leading design concept, and how these challenges will be resolved. If there are open issues this is a good opportunity to obtain input and suggestions before fully committing to detailed development.

You will use feedback from this review to decide which final concept will be pursued by your team for the technical review. The experience will also help you learn how to present technical challenges and solutions in a design review.

Each section will present technical or visual mockups and drawings of their concept, focusing on illustrating the overall concept, technical feasibility/operational principles of critical systems, preliminary product contract, and user/product interaction. The concept is typically an adaptation of one of the team's 4 concepts in the sketch model review, or a section might try a different product based upon what they have learned so far.

Examples of functional and visual mockups are on the right. You can also view mockups from the 2005 class in the gallery (select a project and click on the mockups link).

Key grading criteria are:

• degree of resolution on critical issues/risks
• evolution of the design concept since the last review and your design process
• usefulness and effectiveness of the mockups and other models

Video of your presentations will be made available on the course web site.

Please review the detailed presentation logistics carefully.
See results of mockup review.