Today people were asked specifically to ‘pick holes’ in the concept as it is easier for people to see what is wrong rather than suggest what might be right. There were no major issues raised or functionality that had been omitted but there were a few perspectives that had not been considered.

After some deep brow rubbing and a headache, the realisation is that the funtional aspect of the toolbar will not be able to be demonstrated so time has been spent making an animation that was as natural as possible. Based on mouse clicks starting animations when others have completed but also inclusing text input and [...]

Today there was an insight into years gone by and what would be expected and required for the summative assessment on June 17th. The main thing that came out of it was focus on conveying the idea when you’re not there to explain it. To this effect there were several videos and interactive walkthroughs. This [...]

The project log has seemingly disappeared due to doing too much work and simply forgetting to update it each day. This could be problematic in documenting progress but there is still a huge amount of sketches and scribbles, some of which are dated. Since the last blog post there has been instructions to become more [...]

The initial idea was to find new and innovative ways to organise data. This then evolved into organising and navigating photos which in turn mutated into a new approach to photo sharing. Throughout the whole process there has never been one ‘big’ idea until researching future technologies and the future of the internet. Reading into [...]

Below is a mock-up of one of the concepts that is included in the final major project. The basis is a JavaScript widget that users can paste into any web page that allows them to post that page directly to twitter with a tinyURL already in place. The benefit of a JavaScript widget is that [...]

Yesterday everyone presented for a formative assessment. What made this different fom normal was the fact that the work was graded as if it was the final summative presentation instead of giving an indicative grade as if the work continued in its current direction. The presentation was helpful and provided valueable feedback about what to [...]

There is a presentation on Monday for the final major project and I have been trying to decide how to represent it and display it. Below is a concept, each being an A3 sheet (A4 may do) showing the ‘life of a photo’ from being taken to being viewed, shown from three distinct user perspectives. [...]

Today was very helpful for the individual major project thanks to Helen. There were some problems last week as the presentation was too specific and too narrow for this stage of the project. Today was a post-it frenzy looking at various user profiles for photography and the result of those profiles. More specifically, why do [...]

The final major project has taken second place to the current collaborative project 0 Wallpaper but it is about time for an explanation of what it is about. The theme is data organisation and navigation which has been focussed to digital media and so far has been limited to the online environment. For the presentation [...]