UW-TC                                        TC310 Internship Program                            Autumn 2003

 

Assignment #3: Graphics

Due: Tuesday, 21 October 2003

 

Hi team.  First, I wanted to let you know that you guys are doing a great job.  I have gotten some very positive feedback from the rest of the company.   Another good sign is that we are getting more and more requests.

 

In fact, we had a flood of requests this week!  Interestingly, the requests all had to do with graphics processing.  People have asked for help with designing logos, developing icons, developing graphics and backgrounds for PowerPoint, and creating some web storyboards.

 

While each of these assignments represents a great opportunity for our team to showcase our skills with graphics manipulation, I do recognize that we have only limited resources and cannot do everything.  Therefore, I have decided that we will only work on the web storyboarding assignment. 

 

In brief, we have been asked to develop a set of storyboards for a new “profile” section of the corporate website.  The clients want to create a profile section that is very simple – a main page discussing the company’s commitment to its employees and a profile page with the information about the person being profiled. 

 

The client has asked that we develop a total of three possible layouts (each layout consisting of the two pages).  Of course, these new pages need to fit within the existing look/feel of the company’s website.  At the same time, the client has also asked that the different layouts be very different (to help his team see the possibilities).

 

I told him we could get these layouts to him by next week.  I think this is a create opportunity to show off our creativity as well as our abilities to work with graphics.

 

Requirements:

You should do this assignment using Photoshop.  Because of the way the “layers” functionality in Photoshop works, Photoshop makes a good tool for prototyping website layout without getting caught up in programming HTML. 

 

  1. Each team member should create one storyboard using Photoshop.

 

  1. Each storyboard should

-         Have a color scheme and format that integrates with the existing website

-         Be distinctive from the other two examples

-         Be easy-to-read and clean.

-         Have a navigation structure that permits users to navigate between the parent pages, the main profile page, and the pages for the individual profiles.  

 

  1. Collectively, the three storyboards should share the same text in order to facilitate comparison of the graphic design (rather than comparison of the text).

 

Tips for completing the assignment

-         To borrow graphics from existing web pages, you can right-click on the image and choose the copy option (and then paste the image in Photoshop).

-         The main page text can be short – maybe three short paragraphs describing (a) what profiles are, (b) why do them, and (c) how they will be done.  

-         To get text for the storyboards, you might turn to other online efforts to profile people.  For example, u-week has profiles.  An example (albeit longer than you might want) is at http://depts.washington.edu/uweek/archives/2001.10.OCT_11/index.html (See “New VP will always be Rusty”).

-         For those curious about who would add profiles, U-week’s decision was based on reader input: http://depts.washington.edu/uweek/archives/2001.10.OCT_11/index.html (see “Survey responses spur changes to University Week.”)

 

Submission

This assignment is due in E-Portfolio by the start of class on Tuesday, 10/21/03.  Each student will submit the one (or two) Photoshop files that represent the storyboard, and the annotations indicated in E-portfolio.