Idea Generation Presentation
In this folder you will see the task for your team. In this task you will need to upload the Powerpoint or Open Office Impress file of your team's presentation.
The idea generation
The assignment is to generate some quality ideas that the industry partner Criterion might be interested in. It might pay to check with us if you don't go with these topics but you can range beyond them if you really want to.
However we recommend that you try to generate ideas for products that address some of the following:
Home Office
Ergonomic Computing
The office of the future
Understanding the instructions
The homework environment
Home entertainment furniture
You don't have to do all of them just one is enough if you can get one or two strong ideas from that work.
Good luck, it isn't easy!
The presentation
Each team has 10 minutes for both presentation and questions. We very strongly recommend you follow a timed slide regime with 20 seconds per slide like the Pecha Kucha format which is very effective. A good introduction to this technique can be found in this Wired article. If you're interested there are Pecha Kucha nights held in Auckland. However 20 slides will still take up 6 minutes and 40 seconds which doesn't leave so much time for questions so you might want to cut back the number of slides.
The Studio Session the day before the presentation will be given over to rehearsals. Don't worry about other teams pinching your ideas we will see you had the ideas and make sure you don't present another team's. It is important to respect other peoples ideas, they only become class property after the Friday presentation.
See the marking guidelines which will help you plan your presentation.
A very important thing to think through is how you will handle the questions that will come up after the presentation. Often a question can be in the form of a criticism "Did you not think of...?" or "Wouldn't ... be too...?" There is nothing wrong with showing that this is the first time you have considered this if it really is. The expert is trying to see what you have thought of and what you haven't and they are trying to help you by pointing this out. Adding to your comprehension of the problem. You are aiming to instil confidence in the expert.
If you are defensive and not open to this input you will concern the expert because they will worry you are going to ignore other such "negative" findings in the future. Instead you must think quickly how you can respond positively to this input. Would you adapt your next iteration? Can you expand this line of enquiry adding to their own insight? Remember that this is a presentation of ideas, not of a finished product. They expect there to be aspects unconsidered it is not a criticism of you, it is a commentary on the process that they understand.
Finally you want people to listen to you and not worry about the time. If you manage the time they will relax and listen and provide input. Show that you are in control and responsive.
