..so is it the last hurrah for The State at tommorrows presentation?? :'(

...good to know you're taking it well Ben

Jack

THATS RIGHT, WE TOOK THE PHOTOS OURSELVES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Feedback from prototype website >>

We had some input from Simon Rudkin yesterday on our website. The main points he made about our site (from his experience,) was that once we had completed the prototype, it would then be clear what content you would actually want on the site! Although this wasn't useful in our case, he found that this occured quite often in his work. A more clear point he made about our site was that we needed a title on our homepage. He pointed out that almost EVERY site had this! This isn't a case of spelling out what the content of the site is, but is just the oppurtunity to use a heading, and an appropriate typeface. We also recieved some peer group feedback today from the rest of the cohort. We tested out each others sites for usability, communication and visual style. This feedback is in our sketchbooks although 1 point I would like to make to clear from 1 piece of feedback is that WE DID TAKE OUR OWN PHOTOS, AND DIDN'T TAKE THEM FROM THE INTERNET THANKYOU VERY MUCH! BOOYAAA! >:)

ps. great job today people! :)

J

Making the site solid

Like we discussed earlier in the project we need an intro page (GIF animations! noone eva gets bored of those ;) ) An idea could be simply to just click on a tram ticket to enter the tram(homepage). Add a lace boarder and shoe texture as well and even something as crazy as the site title - "I know you got Sole" and that could do the trick of introducing people into the site and setting the scene.

The idea of incorporating some of the shoe patterns in the tram page to add to the shoe theme has just flashed through my mind as well. Oh! and sound. We've got a solid template to work off and now we can have some fun tweaking up to look (and sound) ace.

I've got another radical idea but it might be a bit much for the last day tho I'll run it by you tommorrow, it involves Flash...

Jack

:)

Good hustle today team! Prototype is done! Just have to do a bit of tinkering (expected,) and we should be good! We'll get cracking on the A2 boards too 2moz, cya later!

aaaaaaannnnnnnd....thats the metro page and profile pages SORTED!! Imageready and everything. It's now just a case of weaving our dreams together on the beast that is Dreamweaver - roll on the technical difficulties lol

Jack

Ben and I (the cavemen of Graphic Design...) have designed the homepage....

ta daaa!!

Okay..not ta daaa..coz it the pictures won't upload...but be sure they'll be on later.

Just know that it's done...and it's good.

X

Dance Mat Re;

Jack! I've included a similar idea with the dancemat navigation in my ideas for the A2 boards.. all will be revealed later!! >> ;)

Bring in the Dance Mat

thinking back to Bens earlier idea about the dance mat arrows, how about if we animated some dancemat game-style arrows above the video on After Effects as it played?

Jack

...it's like watching Saturday Night Fever :)

Jack

Shoe video on profile?

Here are two profiles of shoes we were thinking of using as video on our site. We may resort to actually just using the sound rather than a video though.

Front page developments...

My internet's finally working!! :D...

...you've all pretty much seen most of this already but for the blog record, here's some of the work I've been up too with the profile pages...


Here's my development of one of the profile pages: From the bland metro looking, but boring looking profile page to the mock ups to the final page with more of a 'shoe style' to it and an appropriate illustration expressing the shoes' 'personality' and lifestyle. Shown with and without photos on:



Here are the other profile pages with and without the photos, which appear when you roll over the thumbnails:













My next step is to get these badboys on imageready for some interactivity magic!

Jack

IMPORTANT NOTICE!

Our prototype has to be complete by the end of Monday!! All hands on deck at 10am Monday! :O

Tram Ticket

This is the tram ticket I've created on photoshop. I've added the 7/42 'size' aspect from a shoe so it contains the visual style of 'shoes' but still appears as a tram ticket. This image will be the 'return home' button on certain pages of our site.

Tram Ticket Button

List of things to do >>>

Here is a list of things I need to do for Monday (and tonight!) They probably make more sense to me than other people!
1 )Record videos of dancing i) worker shoes, ii) buisness shoes iii) skater shoes. 2) Take photos of shoes for tram scene (All) 3) Use pictures from emails to generate ideas for A2 boards 4) Send pictures on emails to other group members. 5) Construct Final Homepage on dreamweaver (Monday) 6) Anything else!

Ben, could you please email me over a few of those blank tram pics you took today..? I'll start playing with some visual styles etc..!

IMPORTANT!

The Brief says we have to also produce a mounted site map diagram and 2x A2 presentation boards showing key visual elements which best represent the style and use of the concept! Just some food for thought but we need to sort this out peeps.