User testing with large groups of people was very interesting today. It was a ‘live’ environment so there was the ‘Virtual Earthquake’ going off in the background and the ‘Red Carpet’ crowd cheering loudly, all of which meant it was difficult for people to understand Shoutbox as their shapes were quickly overridden with the ambient [...]

The setup for Rave On Air should have been very smooth today as the RC1 was prepared so all we had to do was boot up a computer, install the plugins and away… right? How wrong that is. After many problems with Macs, PC’s, connectors and lack of microphone input on G4s I finally booted [...]

Finally everything to do with the Rave On Air website is finished. Sponsors logos are all in place, curved boxes are all…. curved, and the colours are odd but thats what the ‘client’ wanted so thats what I’ve done. Have a look here Have a look at the current site at www.raveonair.com [Edit] I spoke [...]

The next project has started and it looks to be a very interesting one, with the emphasis on a village fete style environment with many ‘booths’ (or interactive experiences in this case) that will bring the community together to raise money for the proverbial church roof. Currently the mindmapping (formerly brainstorming) is in progress and [...]

Today I got a message from Danille Leben from Rave On Air askin me if I had received the email about the new branding. I hadn’t but I had. It was in my spam folder. Anyway the new ‘branded’ site is online but I’m not convinced by it. There were a few ‘must-have’ things they [...]

I’m working on the Rave On Air 08 holding page at the moment using html, css and php. I think I’m getting the hang of all the web malarkey now… It’s a work in progress and is subject to change what with the creative side of it being kinda taken away from me. In Feb [...]

I have just finished a quick template of a holder page for Rave On Air 2008. There is no branding for it yet and I don’t expect there will be for a few months yet so I was instructed to use the Ravensbourne colour scheme. Let me know what you think.