Students will launch the smartphone memory project by making an initial storage allocation for a teen phone user, discussing tradeoffs in a pitch circle, and previewing how equations and inequalities will help them defend and revise their design in later phases.

Students will gather direct evidence about a smartphone user’s daily habits, test assumptions against that evidence, and turn those findings into a concise design brief with memory-budget constraints for photos, games, music, video, and the operating system.

Students will present and defend a revised smartphone memory design to an audience, respond to a real-user scenario with equations and inequalities, and reflect on how feedback changed their storage decisions.