Week 1-2 Progress Update

🚀 Project Kickoff!

We’re excited to share the beginning of our journey on the IBM 3D Printed AI Weather Art project — an AI-enabled, interactive art piece designed to display weather updates, news, and music in a format that's intuitive and accessible, especially for elderly individuals living alone.

Team Introductions & Planning

In Weeks 1 and 2, we focused on laying the foundation for the rest of the project:

• Held our first meetings with both our client and academic supervisor

• Discussed project expectations, constraints, and end goals

• Finalized our design document, which outlines:

  • Preliminary task list

  • Technical and project management roles

  • Milestones and time estimates

  • Project management methodology (Hybrid Agile)

Design Document.pdf

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Work Division

We clearly assigned roles across both technical and non-technical areas:

• UI design, backend integration, voice control, budget tracking, documentation, and communications

• This structure ensures each member has ownership and accountability moving forward

IBM SkillsBuild Learning

To prepare for the technical and AI components of our assistant, each team member completed:

• Getting Started with AI

• Build Your Own AI Assistant

These courses helped us understand the key AI workflows and inspired our early feature planning — particularly around voice interaction and user-centered design.

🧠 Design Thinking & Agile Planning

We’ve begun adopting IBM’s Design Thinking principles by:

• Identifying user personas (e.g., elderly users with limited tech exposure)

• Outlining key user needs and accessibility considerations

• Planning to iterate weekly through Agile-style mini-sprints