The Kodak Memory Studio

Title: Project Manager
Client: Kodak Systems Concept Center
Employer: Entertainment Technology Center
Date: Summer 2003

For this paid internship, I directed a team of six artists and one human-computer interaction specialist in the design and prototyping of an interface and virtual assistant character for digital photo album creation. Called the Kodak Memory Studio, our prototype used concepts from entertainment to create a fun and engaging customer experience. Our client, the Kodak Systems Concept Center, a research and development section of the Eastman Kodak Company, came to us looking for a new and different approach to digital album creation, and they were extremely pleased with our work, asking us to demo our prototype to many internal groups at Kodak R&D.

As the Project Manager for this team, I...

• ...communicated with the client through conference calls, email, and formal presentations.
• ...directed art development.
• ...designed interactions.
• ...designed a character with personality.
• ...documented our design.
• ...drew storyboards.
• ...wrote dialogue.
• ...directed voice recording sessions.
• ...organized focus group research on our prototype.
• ...scheduled and led team meetings.