Harvard Business Review

September 1st

Notes from sketchbook and Google Slides.

So far we’ve gridded and looked at the magazine and website separately, and have not yet sat down to compare the biggest similarities and differences. We’ve completed quite a few slides (with some questions about whether or not the way we’re gridding is correct) and tomorrow we’ll start getting into the details and solidifying our ideas.

At first we shared a Google Slides, but soon moved to Keynote, since we wanted to include animations. We’ve enjoyed playing around with our options, but Keynote has proven to be a bit difficult for collaboration; the link doesn’t go through, or my teammates can’t open the link, or they run into issues with iCloud.

Title page.

The website is left-aligned, but we haven’t formed a hypothesis as to why. Because we read left to right? Is it the visual pattern we’re used to?

Our main adjectives which describe the magazine.

History of past and present issue covers; moving from a heavy male audience to a more even 50–50 male and female audience.

Gridded page spread and website; how do we avoid looking like we just highlighted the page? Should we add more color-coded boxes, maybe for the white spaces?

Notes in Google Docs.

September 5th

Our feedback for the dry run presentation.

I unfortunately wasn’t in town for the dry run, but I think Jiyeon and Anthony communicated well what we needed to work on and revise. We started to focus on making everything more cohesive, making our hypothesis more clear, having transitions in what we say to move on to the next slide, and cutting out redundant slides.

September 8th

We’ve written our script into the speaker notes and revised what we’ll say so that we make sense without over-explaining our points. We’ve assigned what each person will say, but so far our rehearsals are still about 8 minutes. We have to decide what we’ll discuss less and what is worth cutting out.

First slide after introducing ourselves.

I am worried that we have 32 slides, but there are several that just serve as a transition of topics or extra evidence to skim over. In all honesty, I don’t know if our slides on web are “correct.” But otherwise we’re pretty much ready to present — although I’m not sure yet how we will do this. I’d like to have notecards, but in any case I know I’m going to be nervous.