We’re less than three weeks away from our hackathon at the gorgeous new waterfront digs of The Center for Social Innovation.  In addition to producing amazing stuff, we aiming for a creative community and projects that can continue beyond the weekend.   As a lead up, here’s our little “choose your own adventure” installment for [...]

It’s the critical moment Lab teams work towards every session.  Intense energy builds as facilitators call out the 15 minute warning. Teams work feverishly to cut out another button or draw out a paper screen.  ”Okaayyyy!  Time’s up!”  Teams gather round a large table to begin our peer-testing process.     Peer-testing is an essential [...]

We did a short post awhile back about the merits of paper prototyping.  We’ve gotten another recent inquiry about what paper prototyping looks like.  One of our fun rituals at lab sessions is constant peer testing (to test for understanding of learning concepts as well as flows/forms of interaction.  Before writing a lick of code [...]

The lab is already deep in Design Cycle 2 (you’ll be seeing some glimpses very soon).  In wrapping up Design Cycle 1 (DC1), aside from our home videos from our mini-exchange in late January, we’ve created webpages for each of our 2012-2013 DC1 prototypes to summarize key features and highlight learning concepts each examined and [...]

Time flies, and Design Cycle I is now complete.   In less than three months, this year’s labbers have moved from learning each others’ names to becoming teams that can realize concepts into high fidelity digital prototypes that have been learner vetted twice.  Aside from fellow labbers and our teacher’s students, few have had a [...]