Post semifinal thoughts

We won our semifinal!

link to our presentation: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B5WPa5zeFDYvcEJfYVR3dWUzYTg/view?usp=sharing

When designing the presentation we wanted the look and feel to match our concept and therefore went for clean and simple design. The slides mostly had headlines about what we were going to say and a few pictures on them. We feel that with too much text to read it is easy to get tired and distracted, we believe that we can deliver the information in the presentation in much better ways than just writing everything down on our slides. We focused on making what we said interesting and engaging.

Our presentation is built on the past, present and future. We begin in the past, taking the listeners though the early stages of our process and concept; interviews, personas, scenarios and target group etc. Providing a deeper understanding about the ground which our decisions have been based upon.

We then move on to the present, presenting our concept: NILS. We explain the main components of our system and how it is used. When we feel the audience have a basic understanding of the concept we venture into the future showing the prototype (see links in earlier post) and a real life example of how we imagine NILS could be incorporated at a museum. We feel that the prototype really completes the presentation, it gives a real feel for the experience we want to give our users in real life. 

We thought it was challenging to convey our entire process and all of the thoughts behind our project, as well as sell our concept and show it to the audience in just ten minutes. We are however extremely pleased with the balance we found between process and concept in our presentation. For the final we will probably not change a lot and hope that the audience will be on our side and hope for a second win!