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Presenting Your Prototypes and Process
This workshop is where you account for what you built and what it taught you. You've made a prototype, tested it, broken it and revised it. Now you show someone else what you made, how you made it and why it matters, in a short case study you can reuse in your portfolio. Then you listen to others do the same, look for what your projects have in common, and look back over the whole series.
There are two ways through this workshop. Both end in the same place.
- For a quick run-through, follow the TLDR. It's one page of short steps, with links to the detailed guides if you want more.
- For a deeper understanding, follow the detailed guides below, in order. They explain what to include, how to present and give feedback, and what the series added up to.
What You'll Do
- Build a case-study deck of up to 7 slides about your prototype and your process.
- Optionally, record a demo video of 2 to 3 minutes.
- Present for 3 minutes, then talk about your work for 3 minutes.
- Give other presenters specific, useful feedback, and discuss the themes you noticed.
- Look back over the series through three frames: AI as a tool, as a material and as a medium.
Before You Start
Bring:
- Your prototype, with a live link that opens signed out. Workshop 4 shows how to publish one.
- Your process journal, with an entry for each workshop. See Keeping a Process Journal.
- Your design artifacts: your system card, your system diagram and your evaluations. See Documenting an AI Design and Testing Your AI Prototype.
- Screenshots of your prototype, including at least one before and one after a revision.
Every earlier workshop feeds into this one. Workshop 2 gives you the role card and system card, and Workshop 5 can help you take screenshots and draw a system diagram.
You can do this workshop with a group or on your own. Where the guides describe a group activity, they also say how to do it alone.
Two Ways Through
| TLDR steps | Guide | What it covers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Building Your Case-Study Deck | What goes on each of your 7 slides, and how to make them portfolio-ready. |
| 2 | Making a Demo Video | Optional. A 2 to 3 minute walkthrough of what your system does, what you gave it and where it breaks. |
| 3–4 | Presenting and Giving Feedback | The 3-minute format, how to give useful feedback, and the group discussion. |
| 5 | The Series in Review | A recap of the five earlier workshops, and three ways to think about AI. |
After the guides, the Practice page covers what to do with your work next.
Next
This is the last workshop in the introductory sequence. When you've finished, try the optional projects in Going Further, or read about the later workshops.
Examples
See prototypes made in this workshop on the Examples page.