The Final Countdown

I felt that as the project continued we started to find an identity for this exhibit that we could, almost, all agree on. Which, when you have a class of 20 people, that is pretty awesome. I am so proud of our class for coming together in the end and pushing through to create a final product I think most people felt excited for.

Below are a few of our final designs. Going back to our original groups, we were able to narrow down on information and divide and concur. Being an XD, I wrote information for my particular group (Hard choices made in poverty), the copy seen below. It was wonderful working with Ella and Haylee for they are both very hard workers and easy to talk too. They are always willing to go above and beyond what is expected of them, and never once did they question what we had to do, they simply did it.

In our XD groups, not only did we write content, but user-tested the information. It went surprisingly well as our assumptions were, happily, not entirely true. We figured that people would not be that knowledgable in the field of poverty, but all three that we interview, were. They were just unfamiliar with poverty in Douglas County.

We set up full scale posters, and had them fill our a questionnaire before and after they read the information to see what they had gained from it. Here was an example:

We learned from our test that we needed to be clearer in our information, and a little more precise about how the viewer was to interact with our exhibit.

There also needed to be an emotional take-away. A reflection or call to action. Even though we addressed this, after talking with Erika, the class found that we may have needed to spend more time on the call to actions. This was good to hear. There is always room to improve, and if our group's direction is chosen, it will be exciting figuring out just what to say.