Flash Final

http://people.artcenter.edu/~wildman/id2/pavilion_panel_final.swf

in-seat application:





secondary application:

navigation and main page

this is the initial iteration of the entry page for the pavilion panel. I'm going to add a scoreboard in the lower righthand corner that will toggle through scores of other games happening around the league. I have the sounds for the buttons and will be adding them shortly.

http://people.artcenter.edu/~wildman/id2/pp_2.swf

exercises

http://people.artcenter.edu/~wildman/id2/ex1.swf

http://people.artcenter.edu/~wildman/id2/ex2.swf

http://people.artcenter.edu/~wildman/id2/ex3.swf

HP Pavilion Panel

Nevermind

So I got the whole point of project #2 totally wrong - back to the drawing board. My new idea is a touchscreen interface to be placed on the backs of seats in the San Jose Arena which could be used during various sporting events (Sharks Hockey games, Sabrecats Arena Football Games, Stealth Soccer games) and allow fans to access facts, history, videos, see upcoming events, buy tickets, communicate with other fans, etc. while at the event. These screens could also be places in strategic locations around the bay area (malls, colleges, retail centers) in order to promote upcoming events and general information regarding the local teams. Since this is a totally new idea I need to do the new research (creative brief, mood and experience boards, etc.) this upcoming week and get it all posted back up here.

Project #2

PROJECT #2

Hey, it's Ryan from class. Do you have the syllabus that explains the project #2 assignment.
If so, could you send it to me I can't find it.

dorazi@charter.net
626 390 1112

Thanks a million!

missing pages and cnn mobile

does anything go right today?

now I can't upload images, gonna have to wait awhile and try again later.

as good as it's gonna get

So sleep didn't help as everything that wasn't working before still isn't working. Two of the pages won't link so I have to post them seperately. This has been one of the more frustrating endeavors I've undertaken while at art center, only compounded by the fact that the "finished" result is nothing like what I'd been hoping for or wanted. Hopefully I can find out where I've gone wrong and learn how to make the changes I need.

That being said, here it is:

http://people.artcenter.edu/~wildman/id2/cnn_midterm.swf

i need sleep

So buttons and links have stopped working and I'm designing around in circles. Here's where the pages stand and I'll go back over them tomorrow (later today) to try and figure out where I'm going wrong.

http://people.artcenter.edu/~wildman/id2/bars_5.swf

flash starting to take shape...finally

So here's my initial navigation with buttons and graphics and such. it still needs to be worked on and I still need to get the motion to stop. I know we learned this last week but since I missed class the week before I've been playing catch-up, my least favorite game of all.

http://people.artcenter.edu/~wildman/id2/bars.swf

Response to the Readings

LANGUAGE TO BE LOOKED AT AND/OR THINGS TO BE READ

Robert Smithson's essay details the way that written language is made up of indicators of things other than what they are, which is words. Placed in different contexts, words take on different meanings and interpretations to different people. In most cases we're not reading words, but rather recognizing them and associating them with the object which they represent to us. For example, we see the word "cat" and chances are that we think of the animal. But if someone who doesn't read or understand English, seeing the word "cat" brings up no association with a cat. The letters used in a word can also change the meaning of that word depending on how they are used. Letterscale, boldfaces, and italics can all give the same word multiple meanings.

THE GARDEN OF FORKING PATHS

This story is relevant to the subject of interactive design today in that it explores the subject of choices being made and the subsequent results of those decisions, much in the same way that clicking one of multiple links on any given webpage will take you to a destination that the others, in most cases, will not. At the end of the story, the character of Albert discusses a dizzying net of divergent, convergent, and parallel times - a description which is easily linked to the capabilities and function of the internet. He speaks of multiple simultaneous realities in which people play different roles in different dimensions, much in the same way that the innumerable number of sites on the web exist simultaneously linked together in some way or another and are in a constant state of dynamic change.

AESTHETICS AND TECHNIQUE IN DATA GRAPHICAL DESIGN

Unlike the other two readings, this piece is more of a "how to" in terms of communicating data properly and in ways to convey that information to a reader in the easiest manner. It covers methods of sorting out information and staging it in such a way that it can be conveniently navigated and interpreted. It gives direction in terms of how words and images should coexist in information design, proper methods for organizing tables and charts of data, and how to handle the shapes and lines incorporated into a given piece.

navigation in flash

Webpage Comps

mood board

experience board

competitors board

creative brief

first night's homework

So my blog is set up. So far this class is pretty easy, I have a feeling this is going to be the last time I say that.