workshop

workshop creating interface layouts of iphone screens landscape and protrait. Card Board Box news. Catagories food, health, top stories, for you and sports. color coded has photos and videos. Navigation features are swipe over to see catagory, scroll, click link for full story.

Research-

new york times- color scheme, simple, 2 typefaces, old school

apple news- very futuristic, videos and images multiple typefaces, colors for everything

times georgian- website better interface smoother, catagories at the top of website.

Workshop

Creating a tech elevator, The left image is the computer system before entering the elevator and after you get your room card. First screen is language, scan ID card from hotel then it tells you what elevator to go to. Also the elevator lights up. When you enter the elevator you pick a shape that matches the same shape on your ID card. It sends you to the correct floor and then you find your room, which has a room number.

reading pages 6-29

-what is interactive design? perceptions of what interactive design actually has also changed with each new major technological development. what this book does? ideas and copy. design disciplines are leading to a new breed of hybrid designers. research for interaction? designers are often keen to shy away from digital media projects, perhaps because they have a tendency to falsely equate technology with a lack of creativity. market research? context review, questionnaires and surveys, and brand matrix. user research? focus groups, personas like photo libraries, scenarios, cultural probes like smartphones. visual research? culture hunt and sketchbooks and blogs. shared inspiration, mood board desktops like copying images.

branding book for our client

The branding book went very well. Julia did the burson center side and I did the tinker box side. we worked together as a team to gather all the information and pieces that we did. At the end of our presentation, everything went well and our presentation went well. It kinda sucked that our client wasn’t there to see all our final piece and projects and to see all of our hard work in everything but that’s okay.