Hacktivity Rules

• IN TEAMS OF 3 or 4 • BRAINSTORM IDEAS •

•CREATE A PITCH • PRESENT •

10 MIN • Brainstorm!

15 MIN • Create!

2 MIN / TEAM • Pitch!

Who is the                    ?

17W DALI Core

DALI Staff

Welcome to the Lab!

please share your...

  1. name & year
  2. a highlight of your winter break
  3. one thing you're excited to learn at DALI

How does DALI work?

Team Structure

Lab Structure

A Week in the Life of DALI

Sun M T W Th F Sat
Open Lab Hours
(6-9 pm)		 All-Hands
(5:30 pm)		 Team Meeting
(anytime!)
Mentor Hours Mentor Hours Mentor Hours Mentor Hours

Come in anytime to work, study, or hang out!
(or even nap, eat leftovers, & play board games...)

Discover

What is the problem statement?

 

Your whole team:

  • Kick-off meeting with Partner
  • Research and ​reframe the problem
  • User personas 
  • Plan scope and timeline
  • Create a project proposal
     

Dev & Design both inform the Discovery process

Define

What are you planning on building?

Your whole team: 

  • What are the project specifications?
    • Feature Spec
  • How could that look? 
    • Concept Sketches
      • tip: create complete user flows as wireframes so you can focus on usability without worrying about aesthetics yet!
    • User flows
    • Content -- identify and gather
    • Mockup iterations

 

Design

How does your proposed solution become a reality?

  • Sketches and Mockups, explore different design and UI directions
  • Design and Prototype
  • Refine
  • Implement

Design

Adequate Design vs. Effective Design

Develop

feature spec

toolchain

architecture design

codes

Deliver

When finishing a project:   

  • test
  • final design and code review
  • commit your code
  • hosting/publishing
  • attributions (DALI, partner)

DALI Tools

Slack!

Slack is how we communicate!

Integrates with github, google drive, trello, lab lights...

How to Slack

You've all been invited! Download on computer & phone. 

Here's a quick demo!

Drive

  • Keep everyone in your team on the same page

  • Upload all non-code materials e.g. mockups, logos, etc. to Google Drive.

  • Project managers should keep it organized and up to date.

  • Find resources on the Drive:​

    • Official branding

    • DALI New Member Guide

    • Design and Development Resources

  • Code revisions

  • Collaborate on code

  • Use github issues and milestone

  • Maintain readme.md file with documentation, overall code structure, how to set up dev environment

Managing your Project

Use your team Slack channel

Meet each week

Communicate with Partners

Use Drive (design+everyone)

Use Github (code+everyone)


Mentors and Staff!