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Concept Sketches
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After considering feedback on the user experience design, your team should adopt three of the team-member's storyboards, or develop a new, derivative storyboards based on the team's work and your strongest product ideas.

Now, the goal is to further develop your product concept and to practice the 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
Select your top three storyboards/product ideas. Make sure that your team has current storyboards to guide you in the concept development process. Your team will need to submit up-to-date storyboards with this assignment.

Each team member will propose a more detailed conceptual design for each of the 3 product directions reflected in the selected storyboards. You many want to look an example (example a, example b, example c). Packaging may also be in scope if it is important to your product.

Bottom sketch:
Scott Stropkay, Essential design

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

Each team member is expected to submit 3 concept sketches—your top embodiment for each of the three product ideas under consideration.

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

The submission instructions provide information about where your team storyboards will be located on the course website in case you want to refer to it in your concept sketch pages. Also, you should make an index.html page that links to your the 3 storyboards for the products under consideration.

See the results!