I’ll use this post as a working document framed around Anna’s project reflection prompts:

 

In a 2×2 square:

1. List everything the project might have or do.

This list easily exceeds several 2×2 squares -> a clear early indicator that i continue to wrestle with constraint.

I’ll come back to this question, but offhand, the major might have’s are :

-Incorporate an ability for sharing an element of the experience on social media, via text etc – share a card, share the summary statement…and begin the process of  expanding the impact beyond a single user.

-Audio element – atmospheric audio, aural reinforcement for “positive” user bx, like committing to an action step, etc.

– Mid/major level audio element: clickable audio cues (mantras, mini meditations, movement cues, etc. attached to each card (or more realistically, to a select number of “trump cards”) – this is a lot of work AND it is central to realizing the multi-sensory embodiment objective of my thesis.

-Major audio element: opportunity for user to record themselves speaking/responding to text prompts, then hear the recording played back.

***Big thing i have to decide is whether or not I want to keep my 3 earlier “practice paths”, and if so, how that impacts the language and visual components I include at the beginning and end of the experience.

2. Sort that list into ‘Has to have, in order to be effective’ and ‘Nice to have, but not central to the minimum version of the project.’

Rather than start from the POV of an ideal outcome, here  I’ll identify  what I need to do to achieve the minimum version of the project:

TAROT

 

  • Make sure the “create your context” is clear and effective and accomplishing what I want it to.
  • Position text and descriptions for all 11 spread arrangements
  • Create and upload 30 remaining card animations
  • Finalize categorization for all 80 cards
  • Complete card descriptions for all cards.
  • Each description should include:
    1.  Characteristics of archetype when in balance
    2. Characteristics of archetype when out of balance
    3. An action or practice tool for cultivating equanimity as expressed through that archetype.
  • Clarify where I want to keep text boxes for user reflection
  • Clean up layout styling around cards and position text
  • Clarify and synthesize user summary page
  • Clean up instructions and steps before and after each practice process
  • Clean up and streamline styling for functional clarity, visual congruence, etc –
  • look for opportunities to amplify messaging with color/ visual symbolism, .
  • Tighten up and edit text – look for opportunities to enrich language with metaphor, etc.
  • Go back through and play with adding more Twine effects like <<link replace>> to reduce amount of text on the page at any one time and increase experience of interactivity

3. Sort each of those lists into ‘Hard to do’ (have to figure it out/>10 hours work for that bit) or ‘Easy to do’ (know how to do it, <10 hours).

 

4. Forget the ‘Nice to have/Hard to do list.’ Not happening.

 

5. Start work on the Essential/Hard list first.

 

‘Three Question Exercise’:

1. My project will be a success if it…

  1. Has growing user engagement after June 30.

2. One surprising way people could use or react to my project is…

3. If my project fails, it will probably be because …

  1. I spent too much time trying to develop “extraneous” aspects of my project at the expense of thoughtfully finishing the essentials.
  2. I worked until the last minute and gave a poor, scattered presentation.