Posted in GDIII Assignment on March 29th, 2007 No Comments »
Collateral Material
Due: 04/19/07
Deliverable:
Any one of the following which promotes or explains your personal media player:
a series of three posters (at least 11”x17”) with a consistent graphic theme
a 30 second video spot (think TV commercial) uploaded to YouTube/Google Video
a multi-page product web site
Tools:
Illustrator/Photoshop for posters, FinalCut/Premeire/Audacity, etc. for
video, Dreamweaver/raw HTML/Imageready/etc. for Web work.
Note:
Collateral is not necessarily […]
Posted in GDIII Assignment on February 20th, 2007 No Comments »
Form Studies “What does it look like?”
Due Date:
Thursday March 15, 2007
Deliverables:
First—produce a series of labeled sketches showing the physical artifact from a number of angles. Remember to provide physical affordances to support all of the features you designed in the last phase. These drawings do not need to be highly refined (that’s for […]
Posted in GDIII Assignment on February 13th, 2007 No Comments »
The three parts for the Interface portion are all due Tursday, February 15, 2007.
This includes the Feature List, Interface Flowchart, and Interface Mock-Up.
These are all due in class, in hard copy, with the revisions that have emerged as your project has progressed. Even if you have not made significant changes (though I imagine most of […]
Posted in GDIII Assignment on January 25th, 2007 No Comments »
Interface Design “How does it work?”
(Feature List due 02/01/07)
(Interface Flowchart due 02/08/07)
(Interface Mock-Up due 02/15/07)
Deliverables:
First—develop a printed list of features.
Second—a graphic map/flowchart of the device’s user interface showing
each screen (or “state” if there is no screen) that the device is capable of, and how each is linked to the other.
Third—produce a mock-up of the interface […]
Posted in GDIII Assignment on January 23rd, 2007 No Comments »
Concept Board “What should my design feel like?”
(due 01/25/07)
Deliverable: a 24”x36” physical collaged concept board (illustration or foam-core).
Be sure to scan or photograph your board at a decent resolution (say, 800×1200 pixels) for future reference.
Tools: Magazines/original photos, print-outs from the Web, scissors, X-Acto knife, glue sticks, etc.
Concept generation: Gather images that express the […]
Posted in GDIII Assignment on January 16th, 2007 No Comments »
GDIII Folks…
We’ll read and discuss this brief article by Tim Rohr in class next Tuesday (01/23/07):
Metaphors we compute by: bringing magic into interface design
http://philosophy.uoregon.edu/metaphor/gui4web.htm
Posted in GDIII Assignment on January 11th, 2007 1 Comment »
Market Research “What’s out there now?”
due 01/18/07
Deliverable: an informal 5-10 minute individual presentation of your research results (this should be a “no-design” (just get it together quickly) text and image mash-up in some projector-friendly format (PowerPoint, Impress, Keynote, Photoshop (PDF Presentation), or a series of Web pages or blog entries). Bring it on […]