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Concept Sketches
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After considering feedback on the user experience design, your team should adopt one (or two) of the team-member's storyboards, or develop a new, derivative storyboard based on the team's work.

Now, the goal is to further develop your concept for the project and practice 2-point perspective sketching that is typically used in product concept ideation.

Your work should be coordinated with your team to move the project forward, but your sketches will be graded individually.

To start
Make sure that your team has current storyboard(s) to guide you in the concept development process. Your team will need to submit an up-to-date storyboard(s) with this assignment, and you will need to clearly indicate what aspect of the storyboard your individual sketches are developing.

As a team, divide the work amongst yourselves so that all critical elements of your team storyboard(s) will be worked on. Depending on the scope of your project, team members may all work on concepts for the same artifact, or team members may work on different artifacts in the team storyboard(s). You many want to look an example (example 1).

Bottom sketch:
Scott Stropkay, Essential design

Design
Generate numerous loose ideation sketches of different alternatives for the artifact that you are working on. Try to use the markers sketching techniques taught in class. Focus mostly on black and white sketching with some tone.

While working on the concepts, be sure to keep the user experience, human factors issues, how things may work, and client requirements in mind. Try to be innovative.

You are expected to submit concept sketches for your top three ideas.

Prepare your submission
Prepare your concept sketches in a web page or series of web pages.

Be sure to make it clear what aspect of the team storyboard(s) you are addressing. The submission instructions provide information about where your team storyboard(s) will be located on the course website in case you would like to link to it.

See the results!