Three pieces of graded work, no examination, and each one built from what the one before it produced.
Three pieces of work, no examination, and nothing submitted twice.
They accumulate#
The assessments are not three separate tasks that happen to be in the same course. Each is the same analytic move applied to a harder object, and each one is built out of something the previous one produced.
| Assessment | What it asks | Built from |
|---|---|---|
| Progress Bar Autopsy | analyse a waiting interface you did not build | nothing — this is where the method is learned |
| Waiting Interface Prototype | apply that analysis to your own interface, working | the autopsy’s claim-and-source method, and the state model it made you infer |
| Honest Waiting Kit | make that interface survive failure, and account for every claim left on it | the prototype, its audit sheet’s failures, and the studio deliverables from weeks 10 and 11 |
Each brief says explicitly what it hands on and what it inherits. The criteria do not overlap: Behaviour across the four conditions is marked in Assignment 2 and never again; Behaviour under abnormal conditions is marked in Assignment 3 and not before it. A prototype that does not change between the two scores on neither.
What that means for feedback#
Because nothing is resubmitted, feedback has somewhere to go. A correction to your reasoning in the autopsy lands on your own screen four weeks later, where the same reasoning is marked on something you built. A line your marker breaks on the Assignment 2 audit sheet is the first row of your Assignment 3 claims register.
How marks are earned above “it works”#
Assignment 3 carries half the course, and its brief sets out the difference between meeting the requirement and arguing it well, criterion by criterion. The short version: the requirement is about the artefact, the argument is about the decision behind it.
The three#
Progress Bar Autopsy
Take a waiting interface you did not build, list every claim it makes, and say what evidence each one could possibly have.
Due 12 March 2027 · Weight: 20%
Waiting Interface Prototype
The first half of the semester, shipped — a determinate bar, an honest estimate, an indeterminate case with no fractions, and an accessibility audit that records its failures.
Due 27 April 2027 · Weight: 30%
Honest Waiting Kit
The finished interface, plus the three documents that make it checkable — a state reference, an evaluation record, and a register of every claim left on screen.
Due 28 May 2027 · Weight: 50%