My design class

So this semester I'm taking the advanced design class with Dr Gibbons (chair of the IP&T dept). It is based on the idea of an instructional design studio - so, really practical where we are solving real problems. As a class (there are 10 of us in the class), we form a design team and we have been giving the task of designing for the Church History Museum. They currently have an outreach program where museum docents go into the local schools and teach fourth graders about Utah pioneers. They want to extend this to LDS people across North America and make it web-based. So, that is our task.

One thing a few of us did at the beginning of the semester was go to the Church History Museum in Salt Lake City. We took some photos while we were down there.

Anyway, I am the client liaison, meaning I am the one who contacts the client (a lady who works in the Church History Department), and I am the class scribe. The reason I volunteered for this latter responsibility was because I would get a livescribe pen. It is an AMAZING device. It was actually designed by a graduate of the IP&T department at BYU. So, our department were given some free pens and now I have one of them.

At the moment we are researching how we want the framework of our design to be - it is a really fun project, especially knowing it will eventually be used by members of the church all over the place.