Suggested Challenges
- Get 10 people to try 3 key tasks on 2 different web-based image editing tools, and then compare their feedback to your own experience.
- Estimate how many person-minutes it will take to add Processing to a laptop
- Using the Inspect Element browser tool, temporarily edit an existing web page to promote or report on a fictional project.
- Examine three music tools, and then create a paper prototype that incorporates the best interactions of each.
- Using social media, solicit 5 ideas for a simple application a new programmer could write.
Coding Activities
Critique software
Set up a development environment
Alter an existing program
Design a new system
Build a new system
Marketplace Activities
Raise awareness of a project
Recruit project participants
Research similar ideas
Write descriptive copy
Predict the impact of a project