Presentation Feedback - Hometown Unknown

[amyleew]

Feedback

@bdball20 and @donnazol I enjoyed the design of your presentation. The concept is also very interesting. It's also nice that you can pull the data from your classmates to build out your map.

Since your concept is more personal as far as customized to each individual, you both should walk through the process of building out a personalized map of each others, Hometown Unknown maps. It seems like you are looking at this more of a "product offering", which I think is very smart. You can really push this idea since you are both good at design into a speculative product. Including a video walk through of how the project will function and be used by consumers along the line of this Personal Map art project I shared in class.

Next steps

• Make a Hometown Unknown map with the goal of a process for gathering the data for the map?
  • Do you plot your high school, favorite restaurant, favorite view point?
  • Or is it more memory based, where you had your first ____ or some other personal life narrative...
  • Or is it more gamified, and you answer 10 standard questions that give points or areas for the map
• Sketch ideas for physical forms. In your presentation you mentioned a 3D print or etched material.
  • How can this also be a relevant part of your product offering?
  • Make it cohesive. Think of this entire project as a brand experience.
• Consider visual personalization of this map. I really liked @bdball20's first ideas around a face on a map. That is technically do-able and a fresh take on mapping. Not to mention, who would want their face on their hometown map.
  • Play around in Mapbox Studio and explore styling polygon shapes using polygon-pattern-file property and images of faces. See what sizes work best and decide if this direction will work.
  • With the Mapbox Editor you can locate your hometown, draw polygons around certain neighborhoods attaching data such as name or whatever, export these polygons as map data fromats .kml or .shapefiles, then import them into Mapbox Studio as source layers. Once you have the data, you can use the same property polygon-pattern-file property and add your imagery.

Also post your presentation PDF to your blog site and link that to this issue as a comment. Add any explorations or feedback here too.

/cc @nategulledge

[nategulledge]

For me, your presentation was very interesting but also a bit confusing. I felt that you both presented a collection of great ideas that were well designed, but it made me want to better understand the connection between them all. Who is your target market? Maybe I'll get some clarification after I look at your presentation deck again. I just took a trip to NYC for the first time. Can I get a personalized 3D object of my journey through the city, or is your [service?] more for nostalgic objects (or user experiences) that relate to my childhood? I'm just trying to throw some questions at you that an outside user might think when they first hear about your idea. I think you both are on to something good. Maybe it just needs to be narrowed/focused. The face map component could be an area to establish your focus.

@bdball20 @donnazol /cc @amyleew