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Assignment 6: Research and present to your group

Commit to a topic or direction for a website project. In keeping with the presentations and discussion yesterday, begin this process by researching and sketching. Research may include any of the following:

• Collecting and generating content
• Understanding the context in which the site will exist: competitors, audience
• Visual research: precedents for how the site might look and feel
• Technical inspiration or tools that may make your sketches a reality

The form of your research will vary based on your project idea and your research methods. Consider a Pinterest site, a tumblr blog, a Google Doc with links, Evernote, Keynote presentation (or pdf), digital images, or a combination of these. Present your research to your working group at a meeting at the end of the day for feedback.

You may find sketching at this point helps, too, especially if you’re sketching as a research tool.

Some inspirational sites