Week 12 Tutorial: Final Project Clinic

The last studio before submission — each student defends the one incentive their redesign refuses to remove

10 May 2027 incentive

Before the tutorial

Bring a draft of your teardown and redesign, and be ready to defend the one incentive you deliberately chose not to design away.

In the tutorial

Same courtroom shape as week 7’s studio: five minutes to state the redesign and its weakest defence, then two minutes of questions aimed specifically at that defence, not at the whole project. A redesign that removes every incentive, including the legitimate ones, hasn’t actually engaged with the semester’s argument.

Afterwards

The final project is due at noon on the last day of teaching — see the assessment page for the full brief.

Who benefits when the design is bad?

The spec

What you bring to the tutorial. Written so a reader can tell whether it has been met without asking you.

  • you can name the one legitimate incentive (fraud prevention, throughput) your redesign keeps
  • you can name who would resist your redesign, and why
  • you give feedback to at least one other student's redesign aimed at its weakest defence

Teaching team