The Fall semester of 2020 was online and it felt appropriate to engage students with the pandemic and the social issues that arose, culturally, as a result of lockdowns and the broken political system. The brief asks them, in teams, to create a digital platform for telling stories about the pandemic. They may choose to focus on mental health, on activism, on loneliness, on societal themes, a blank canvas as long as it relates back to COVID. Students produce a Spark Page documenting the UX Phase where they include the visual elements of the process - wireframes and whiteboarding mainly. The next phase is UI where they also submit a Spark Page documenting the process including an XD prototype and an Aero experience. My brief is below and student work follows.
Assignment brief
The UX Phase