Visitor Guide Weekly Update

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  1. Update 1: Project Goals 
  2. Update 2: Competitive Analysis
  3. Update 3
  4. Update 4
  5. Update 5
  6. Update 6
  7. Update 7
  8. Update 8
  9. Update 9
  10. Update 10

Weekly Update 10: 4/25/23

Project Goal for the Week:
  • Send the cover and overall notes layout design to TJ for review and feedback.
  • Finalize the overall notes after receiving the updated descriptions from TJ.  
  • Finalize the accessibility guide.

Weekly Update 9: 4/18/23

Project Goal for the Week:
  • Design layouts for covers and overall notes of the accessibility guide. 
  • Add annotations for each icon and create an icon glossary.
  • Adjust the color of the subtitle.
Individual Goal for the Week:
  • Helen & Tracy: Design cover layout and create an icon glossary for the guide.
  • Alex: Design layout for overall notes.

Weekly Update 8: 4/11/23

Project Goal for the Week:
  • Start building in icons and pictures of the accessible guide after getting approval from Matt.
  • Come up with a draft version of the accessibility guide. 

Weekly Update 7: 4/4/23

Project Goal for the Week:
  • More icon design and come up with more guide layout.
  • Make sure to stay consistent with the style of the Fort in the design by referring to their website.
  • Prepare for meeting with TJ
Individual Goal for the Week:
  • Alex & Tracy: Update guide layout and send to TJ for review and feedback
  • Helen: Create new icons that received from TJ

Weekly Update 6: 3/28/23

Project Goal for the Week:
  • Consider blue color in the existing color palette
  • Come up with more vertical versions of guide layout
  • Start working on the style guide
  • Icon user testing, ask for feedback
Individual Goal for the Week:
  • Alex: Add caption to midterm presentation video, organize transcript, upload to class website
  • Helen: Update Weekly progress to website
  • Tracy: Edit midterm presentation video

Weekly Update 5: 3/21/23

Project Goal for the Week:
  • Finish icons and send to TJ
  • Meeting with TJ
Individual Goal for the Week:
  • Helen & Alex – come up with three versions of visitor guides layouts
  • Tracy – Send mentor the redesigned icons for review

Weekly Update 4: 3/7/23

Project Goal for the Week:
  • Create a list of icons that need to be designed
  • Create a style guide for icon design
nOTES
  1. Icons:
    1. spotty cell service icon: a cell service icon with a slash?
    2. reconsider the voice icons; loud sign: for outdoor activities | noise | quite sign
    3. crowd level
    4. Icons with circle/circle background
    5. Use colour/size to differentiations icon categories(amenities vs sensors)
  2. Check with Amy:
    1. Include a checklist in our guide? (refer to the Cincinnati art museum guide)
  3. Accessibility Guide:
    1. Eventually will be a printed guides
    2. Will be incorporate with the site map
    3. Downloadable/printable pdf
    4. Vertical
    5. A combination of sitemap and each individual location page
Individual Goal for the Week:

Complete initial designs for the following icons according to style guide

    • Alex – Sound Level, Touch, Bugs&Animal
    • Tracy – Accessibility icons
    • Helen – Crowd Level, Temperature Condition, Smell

Weekly Update 3: 2/28/23

Project Goal for the Week:
  • Each member come up with a different version for Lighting Conditions, Wheelchair, and Temperature icons
  • Set up guidelines for the icons
  • Get in touch with people from the disability community to review the icons ask what is needed for them
Individual Goal for the Week:
  • Helen – Get in touch with previous students to go over icons meanings

Weekly Update 2: 2/21/23 (Competitive Analysis)

Project Goal for the Week:
  • Go over all the existed icons and leave comments on where can be improved
  • Each group member comes up with multiple icon versions of 1-3 categories (e.g. restroom/crowd level), post on Figma page Icon v2.0
Notes
  • Our mentor decided to go with the solid design and the roundness of the icons

To Change:

  1. Solid ideation set: proportion is a little bit off
  • Bathroom: should be drawn within a “perfect square” by stretching it a bit taller
  • Wheelchair: scale up
  • Third icon: same as bathroom
  • Temperature logo: Snowflakes & sun need to be more distinguished from each other
  1. Not necessary icons:
  • bug repellant?
  • workshop —> ask last year’s group clarification
  • moderate controlled – ask last year’s group for clarification

To Clarify:

  1. Lighting Conditions onsite:
  • natural light: most the outdoor sites
  • dim light: 18th-century architecture, solder-xx (natural dim light)
  • moderate light: average light in lobby, gallery, office, etc.
  • bright light
  1. Wheelchair accessible vs. wheelchair availability
  • Accessible: Wheelchair is accessible in the area
  • Available: Wheelchairs provide in a certain areas
  • Wheelchair icon can be more active
Individual Goal for the Week:
  • Tracy – Send mentor the redesigned icons for review

Weekly Update 1: 2/14/23 (Goals)

  • Group Members: Tracy Li, Xiaoli Han, Helen Fang
  • Project Mentor(s): Timothy Mullen (Exhibit fabricator) <exhibits@fort-ticonderoga.org> 
  • Student point of contact with mentor: Tracy Li  <ql2335@nyu.edu>
  • Meeting times: 2PM, Every other Friday
Project Goal for the Week:
  • Go over existed progress from 2022
  • Build up milestones/significant achievements
  • Meeting with the mentor
Individual Goal for the Week:
  • Create a list of questions for the mentor
  • Research resources on accessibility and sensory guide
  • Create a Figma file for existed icons – Tracy