This semester, designers will be completing a portfolio presentation for professionals outside of the WVWC community. See the schedule for final presentations time/date.

Before we give our final presentations we will be completing a few practice runs in order to get us ready for the final event.

Step 1: Answer the Following Questions For Each Project

1. What was the problem? Remember that this should be the actual problem, not just the visual problem. Make your audience understand the need. This is also where you would introduce your client.
2. What research did you do? Did you hold interviews? Read a book? Look at competitors? Make sketches?
3. What is your solution? This is where you introduce your design / solution. Describe the form it took (poster, book, website) and explain ‘why.’
4. Why did you make the choices you did? Your audience can now see what you did — next you need to justify your choices. I suggest choosing 2 or 3 elements to really focus on. This is your chance to show that you understand the design process.
5. Why is this solution the best solution? In one sentence, summarize why this project was successful.

Step 2: Create Your Presentation

Once you have reviewed your content and materials, create a presentation PowerPoint / multipage PDF.

Step 3 Submission

Submit your PPT or multi-page PDF on Blackboard

Step 4: Dress for Success

This will be a professional attire presentation. Make sure that you are dressed appropriately — if you have questions about what ‘appropriate’ is, please make sure to ask.

Step 5: Present

GRADING

1. You must have a Powerpoint or multi-page PDF to accompany your presentation.This visual support must include relevant imagery. Don’t be afraid to have fun or have a sense of humor. Remember that relevant doesn’t always mean sombre. Submit your presentation on Blackboard. 5 points.
2. Attire/Grooming: follow professional dress guidelines we established for interviewing. 5 points.
3. Presentation Skills (body language/positive mannerisms, projecting voice, confidence, usage of technology, engaging the audience, etc) 10 points.
4. Organization of Presentation logical flow of information, clear introduction, clear conclusion, discussion of works stating problem solving efforts (not projects in courses) and discussion of the problem solving in appropriate industry terminology. 5 points.
5. Quality of your content Looking at individual works, discuss any flaws in works to be improved before presenting further, any work that is inappropriate for presentation, a good first and last works, etc. (Logical flow of individual works, Quality of individual works, Overall professional quality of portfolio, Overall portfolio meets career objective, is the work impressive, are the images high-quality) 5 points
6. Self-Reflection: submit a PDF on Blackboard. 3 points.

AUTOMATIC FAILURE

Presentation not received on time
Presentation incomplete or missing elements
Did not give presentation