Last Tuesday’s class we showed our work and got more feedback on it. I was impressed by other people’s work, especially that some of them are using flash for the first time.
I still need to work on my page transitions and an intro for my website.
4.17.2009
4.01.2009
Class Comments: Week 9
Last night’s class we each showed our web designs and got feedback on them. In my case I need to concentrate more on making my design and make it look more related to Alcatraz, and I also need to fix the island illustration. I got good feedback and hopefully I’ll fix all the things I got comments on. I’m planning on experimenting with flash this week and try to come up with a intro storyboard.
3.30.2009
Website Page Designs
I rethought my concept and decided to change it to a more brief related concept, so I came up with the “Give a hand” concept since my brief is on the volunteer program.
I’ll also have a small animated intro.
I’ll also have a small animated intro.
3.28.2009
3.25.2009
Class Comments: Week 8
In tonight’s class we each got to talk about our wire frames and our site map, and how the navigation through our websites will go. I still need to work on emphasizing on the volunteer program through my website because that’s the whole idea behind my brief.
3.24.2009
3.10.2009
3.08.2009
Class Comments
Last Tuesday’s class we each talked about our personas’ mood boards and got comments on them, then we got to spend the rest of the class working on our computers.
3.01.2009
Alcatraz Visit
I don’t think my brother was that excited about the whole thing, I’m sure he would’ve preferred to stay in bed all day than get all wet and cold, but he did it for me so, thanks Rami ☺
We barely got there on time, parked our car and rushed into the 12:10 boat. When we finally got to the Island 12 minutes later, we walked into the building and took our Audio tour headsets.
We walked through the cell corridor; cold and humid, one of them was even called “Broadway” which I thought was kind of ironic.
I got to enter one of the cells and tried to imagine what it would be like to live in such a small space with no personal privacy. To be honest, I kind of felt sorry for the prisoners, I don’t know if that’s right or not, but I guess, in the end they’re just humans who made some bad decisions in their lives, and this was how they paid for it.
I was especially impressed by the Audio tour, guiding us from one corridor to the other, with background sounds and recorded with real prisoner’s voices, making it real and alive.
At the end, I was cold, feet wet, and extremely uncomfortable, I could hardly wait for the next boat to drop us back to pier 33, I really enjoyed this tour and would definitely recommend it, I can’t wait for my family to come visit me in the summer so that I can take them there, I know they’ll love it.
It’s a pity that Alcatraz doesn’t get the publicity and advertising it truly deserves, and I’m hoping to give it justice with my website design.
At the end, I was cold, feet wet, and extremely uncomfortable, I could hardly wait for the next boat to drop us back to pier 33, I really enjoyed this tour and would definitely recommend it, I can’t wait for my family to come visit me in the summer so that I can take them there, I know they’ll love it.
It’s a pity that Alcatraz doesn’t get the publicity and advertising it truly deserves, and I’m hoping to give it justice with my website design.
2.25.2009
Week 5: Class Comments
Last night’s class was cool, Christian; an Executive Creative Director at Goodby, Silverstein and Partners presented his work and talked about the latest technologies in the web design field. Personally I was fascinated by the General Electric (GE) website and amazed by how technology had advanced.
After that we presented our personas for our topics, and I realized that I still need to work more on mine!
After that we presented our personas for our topics, and I realized that I still need to work more on mine!
2.22.2009
Alcatraz project personas
Target audience for the Alcatraz island volunteer program are:
1. San Francisco Bay area locals.
2. International visitors.
Persona #1:
Name: Angie
Profession: Stay at home mom.
About Angie: Reads the local newspaper with some toast every morning, goes grocery shopping every Sunday night, Picks up her kids from the bus stop on 5th avenue on weekdays, Has a B.S. in History, volunteers regularly in the summer for different programs.
What makes her a potential volunteer for the program: She is a helpful by nature and the prison and its history would interest her.
About Angie: Reads the local newspaper with some toast every morning, goes grocery shopping every Sunday night, Picks up her kids from the bus stop on 5th avenue on weekdays, Has a B.S. in History, volunteers regularly in the summer for different programs.
What makes her a potential volunteer for the program: She is a helpful by nature and the prison and its history would interest her.
Persona #2:
Name: Chin-Hwa
Age: 34
Profession: Travel agent
About Chin-Hwa: Can speak 3 languages, loves to travel, does his grocery shopping online and believes in Karma.
What makes him a potential volunteer for the program: Likes to experience different things in life and the Alcatraz prison fascinates him with its notorious history.
Name: Chin-Hwa
Age: 34
Profession: Travel agent
About Chin-Hwa: Can speak 3 languages, loves to travel, does his grocery shopping online and believes in Karma.
What makes him a potential volunteer for the program: Likes to experience different things in life and the Alcatraz prison fascinates him with its notorious history.
2.21.2009
Class assignment #2
For our second class assignment, we were asked to design an illustration or diagram for google, amazon or facebook. I chose facebook.
Facebook is a free-access social networking website. Users can join networks organized by city, workplace, school, and region to connect and interact with other people. People can add friends and send them messages.
So I did this little illustration showing how facebook connects people from different colors and ethnicities together.
Facebook is a free-access social networking website. Users can join networks organized by city, workplace, school, and region to connect and interact with other people. People can add friends and send them messages.
So I did this little illustration showing how facebook connects people from different colors and ethnicities together.
Class assignment #2
For our second class assignment, we were asked to design an illustration or diagram for google, amazon or facebook. I chose facebook.
Facebook is a free-access social networking website. Users can join networks organized by city, workplace, school, and region to connect and interact with other people. People can add friends and send them messages.
Facebook is a free-access social networking website. Users can join networks organized by city, workplace, school, and region to connect and interact with other people. People can add friends and send them messages.
Oscars event: Persona #1
Name: Bob Brian
Age: 42
Profession: Plastic Surgeon
About Bob: Eats breakfast before brushing his teeth, does his grocery shopping online, has a pet dog called Seal.
What he likes about the Oscars: Likes to see the results of the plastic surgeries he’s done on celebrities and brag about them to whomever is watching it with him.
Oscars event: Persona #2
Name: Emily
Age: 16
Profession: High-school student
About Emily: Likes to be the center of attention, does the crazy chicken dance in the shower, thinks that one day she’ll grow up to be a rock-star, loves clothes and fashion.
What she likes about the Oscars: Likes to see the dresses celebrities are wearing, is obsessed with Robert Pattinson and likes to cry after her favorite actors win
About Emily: Likes to be the center of attention, does the crazy chicken dance in the shower, thinks that one day she’ll grow up to be a rock-star, loves clothes and fashion.
What she likes about the Oscars: Likes to see the dresses celebrities are wearing, is obsessed with Robert Pattinson and likes to cry after her favorite actors win
Week 4: Class comments
Class went fast last Tuesday; we did our presentations for our project research. After that we were asked by Mauro to create personas for different events, I got the Oscars event. Later we had 10 minutes to draw an illustration representing google, facebook or amazon.
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