How to create a first‐person perspective demo of your final

Rehearse your demo for someone who is unfamiliar with your project.

If you are presenting an experience...

• Set the mood: Lights, window shades?
• Describe the physical set-up. Use pictures and diagrams to show us rather than trying to explain it verbally.
• Walk us through the experience step-by-step from the perspective of the user/audience/participant.
• Show us your "ideal" interaction. How do you hope your audience will interact with and experience your work?
• If applicable, point out moments when users can make a choice. Be extra clear about what the choices are and which one you're choosing to demo. Give us some reasons why they would make one choice over another.
  • If there is time, show us 2 possible ways through your experience.

If you are presenting a sketch...

• Design a beginning, middle and end to our experience of the sketch. (Aim for 30-60s.)
• Then, strip it down and reveal the algorithm layer by layer.

For both:

• As much as possible, show us rather than explain what you did.
• Spend 2x as much time as you think you need on each thing you're showing us to make sure we actually SEE/HEAR/EXPERIENCE it. Demos always go too fast.
• Try to refrain from telling us how you would like us to experience your project until the end.
• Be prepared to answer the following questions about your project:
  • What do you find interesting about what you created?
  • How did creating it in code affect the nature of the concept? (As compared to if you were to create it by using a piece of software.)