Workshop Setup and Preflight

Complete this one-time setup before attending a Design Research workshop.

Workshop Materials

All materials for today’s workshop will be posted in the shared workshop folder.

Before The Workshop

Install Python 3.12, open a terminal, and run the block for your operating system.

On macOS or Linux:

mkdir -p design-research-workshop
cd design-research-workshop
curl -fsSLo requirements.txt 'https://cmudrc.github.io/design-research/_static/workshop-requirements.txt'
curl -fsSLo preflight.py 'https://cmudrc.github.io/design-research/_static/workshop-preflight.py'
python3.12 -m venv .venv
.venv/bin/python -m pip install --upgrade pip
.venv/bin/python -m pip install -r requirements.txt
.venv/bin/python preflight.py

On Windows PowerShell:

New-Item -ItemType Directory -Force design-research-workshop | Out-Null
Set-Location design-research-workshop
curl.exe -fsSLo requirements.txt 'https://cmudrc.github.io/design-research/_static/workshop-requirements.txt'
curl.exe -fsSLo preflight.py 'https://cmudrc.github.io/design-research/_static/workshop-preflight.py'
py -3.12 -m venv .venv
.\.venv\Scripts\python.exe -m pip install --upgrade pip
.\.venv\Scripts\python.exe -m pip install -r requirements.txt
.\.venv\Scripts\python.exe preflight.py

A successful check ends with Preflight passed. You are ready for the workshop. Keep the design-research-workshop folder. Activity materials will be provided separately for the workshop.