6-1 Create Project Poster

Your team needs to create a poster that helps show how your team researched, designed, prototyped, and evaluated your solution to your targeted problem.

The poster will be a visual reference to supplement the explanation and demonstration that your team gives during the public presentation event. The goal is for the poster to be clear, concise, engaging, and professional in terms of its content and visual design.

The standard size for a large poster is 36 inches wide by 24 inches tall. Your teacher will assist with getting the posters professionally printed.

YOUR TASK

1. Gather the content (text and images) for your team’s project poster. Be sure the content is clear, concise, engaging, and professional. Here is a recommended list of content for the poster (and you can add other content if helpful):

   • TEAM

     • Team Name (if applicable)

     • Team Member Names

   • PRODUCT

     • Product Name

     • Value Proposition (or tagline phrase)

     • Functions and Features (optional)

   • RESEARCH

     • Persona for Target User

     • Journey Map of Current User Experience (optional)

     • Design Requirements for Solution (optional)

   • DESIGN

     • Refined Sketches of Solution (optional)

     • System Model of Solution

     • Wireflow of Web App

     • Storyboard of Future UX with Solution (optional)

   • PROTOTYPE

     • Photo of Smart Device

     • Example of Code from Photon App (optional)

     • Screenshot(s) of Web App

     • Example of Code from Web App (optional)

   • EVALUATION

     • Evaluation Findings (optional)

2. Determine the visual design for your team's poster.

   • Generate and sketch possible layouts of the poster content. You can use a regular sheet of paper to sketch a simplified, small-scale mockup.

   • Decide on the overall visual style for the poster (such as: fonts, colors, etc.)

3. Create your final poster using a tool such as Google Drawing.

   • You can use this Google Drawing template which is preset to 36 inches wide by 24 inches tall (zoom in or out as needed to add and edit text, images, etc., but do not change the canvas size).

   • Be sure your poster doesn't have too much text (people may not read it all) or too little text (people may not understand the poster). For example, include some kind of label or description for diagrams, images, etc.

   • Be sure you have strong contrast between the text color and its background color. (If the background color is dark, the text color should be light. If the background color is light, the text color should be dark.)

   • Be sure the font types and font sizes used on the poster will allow people to easily read the text from several feet away. (Fancy fonts may be hard to read. Bold text may be easier to read. Font sizes less than 30 might be too small.)

4. Save or download a copy of your poster as a PDF, and provide the PDF to your teacher for printing.