Hi folks,
In keeping with my recent main blog entries, here I will talk about the new assignment ‘KISS’. From the looks of if there will be many a crazy crazy crazy crazy night (ho ho ho) doing this. The goal is to make an interactive Valentine’s Day ecard (I Was Made For Lovin’ You Baby, ok enough of the KISS references) using either Macromedia Dreamweaver or Macromedia Flash. Personally the obvious choice for me is to use Flash as it seems a lot more suitable for making interactive ecards than using Dreamweaver.
Before I can actually get on with the designing and authoring of the ecard though, there is a big chunk of research and written work that I want to get done before even touching anything else. And before I start doing that I’ve decided to read Don’t Make Me Think by Steve Krug. If you haven’t read it yet I greatly recommend it, especially if you do not understand visual cues. As I’ve said before after reading the chapter on usability testing a while ago I’m finding it an enjoyable and interesting read, and I know when I complete the reading (tonight, just 30 pages left!) it will set me up nicely for both the written work and the designing of the interactive ecard.
I think every single Valentine’s Day ecard I have seen out there on the web has been very tacky or just plain poor, so I am going to strive to create something that is an improvement on these. I will start by evaluating a selection of them as part of my written work. This way I can pinpoint what exactly is bad about them and avoid/rework these features for mine.
I’ll no doubt make another post of some sort during the week
Thanks for reading!
P.S. I'll avoid black and white face paint.
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It's weird that now i am on the other course, how divided the group seems to be. I can see why it's been done but still it's shifted the group dynamic. good post this week, i like the KISS references.
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