DALI Staff

16S DALI Leads

Who is the DALI Lab?

How does DALI work?

Mentors!

Each one of you will have an experienced lab member assigned to be your guide!

They will be your point person for all questions you might have about DALI, your project, your life. 

Coffee/Bubble tea/Gelato!

DALI Leads!

Each group is assigned a DALI Lead. They will check in with you at least once a week. They are also often available during

Monday Open Lab Hours 6-9pm.

They will help you with the DALI process and are SUPERSTARS and masters of the force!

Some Past Projects

Arsenic 

Early Warning Project

Digital Fashion

Milton Reading Room

Discover

What is the problem statement?

Your whole team:

• Meet with Partner: Discover
• Reframe the problem before solving
• Create a project proposal
   

Dev & Design 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? 
  • Wireframes
  • Mockup iterations

Design

How does your proposed solution become a reality?

• Wireframes (Sketches or Digital)
  • tip: create complete user flows as wireframes so you can focus on usability without worrying about aesthetics yet!
• Prototype
• Visual Design

Design

Junior Designer vs Senior  Designer

Develop

feature spec

toolchain

architecture design

codes

Deliver

Things to remember when finishing a project:   

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

DALI Tools

Slack

Slack is the main communication platform for the lab.  We use it in place email/chat/texts.  Each project will have a channel.

Useful channels:
     #dev - resources for developers
     #design - resources for designers
     #feedback - get quick feedback from the lab
     #opportunities - jobs, internships, etc.

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

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                               

Github

• Code revisions
   
• Collaborate on code
   
• Use github issues
   
• 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 the Drive
 

Github 

Mentors and Staff!