ABSTRACT
On the surface, they’re very different. Our Michigan Ave (Figure 1) is a community
development Web site, designed to encourage discussion around urban planning for
a major commercial corridor. It showcases photos, improvement ideas, and points
of interest. Speech Made Visible (Figure 2) is a simpler site that invites visitors to
upload an audio recording of speech and a transcript, and creates a styled version
of the transcript that indicates pitch, speed, and volume with the size, color, and
placement of the text. Yet what interests us most about these projects, which we
both worked on extensively, is the common method that we used to build them:
Agile Development.
