Launch
Students will enter the project through a live supermarket challenge, analyze what makes customer-employee communication work in Spanish, and use feedback from a local supermercado manager to refine their understanding of realistic store roles, language, and next-step goals for the simulation.
Days 1 - 2
🛒 Supermercado SOS Mission
Launch 120m
🏪 Manager Q&A Role Notes
Community Experience 120m
Research & Plan
Students will gather direct user evidence from a supermercado manager, test assumptions through a mystery-shopping experience, and turn their findings into clear criteria and planning artifacts for a realistic Spanish supermarket simulation.
Days 3 - 6
🛒 Supermercado SOS Replay
Launch 90m
🗣️ Manager Q&A Notes
Community Experience 120m
📍 Direction Phrases and Origin Cards
Knowledge/Skill Building 120m
🧩 Empathy Map and Success Criteria
Deliverable 120m
Ideate & Prototype
Students will turn user research from the supermercado manager visit, mystery shopping evidence, and product-origin findings into multiple concept directions for a Spanish supermarket simulation. They will create a clear design brief, build and test low-fidelity scripts and interaction tools, use peer and partner feedback to revise twice, and select the strongest prototype direction for the next phase.
Days 7 - 10
🧭 How Might We Design Brief
Knowledge/Skill Building 105m
🗺️ Three Role-Play Concepts
Project Work 120m
🗣️ Prototype Testing Carousel
Deliverable 120m
🌎 Product-Origin Cards Revision
Research 120m
Revise & Showcase
Students will refine their supermarket simulation using user evidence, rehearse and revise higher-fidelity scenes, validate their language and workflow with an outside partner, and complete a stakeholder-facing role-play and design explanation before the final public showcase.
Days 11 - 14
🧭 Supermercado Success Criteria Sprint
Knowledge/Skill Building 75m
🛒 High-Fidelity Role-Play Build
Project Work 120m
👥 Peer Critique and Manager Check
Community Experience 135m
🎭 Stakeholder Role-Play Run
Assessment 120m
Showcase
Students will present their finalized supermercado simulation to an authentic audience, rotate through employee and customer roles in Spanish, and capture brief evidence of how community feedback and repeated revisions improved the realism, clarity, and teamwork of their final performance.
Days 15 - 16
🛒 Supermercado en Acción Performance
Assessment 120m
💬 Manager Debrief and Revision Evidence
Deliverable 90m