Week 8:
[EDIT 12/9/10]
Usability Testing for CurrentSF
Since I did the usability testing wrong last week, time for redo.
For our website, I asked my brother to do the usability testing. Since he does not go to an art school, maybe he can tell us about our website. He knows how to use a computer. I explained to him what the website is first before testing. The hot spots of the website was the slider, the event posts, and a little of the navigation. Simple layout. First thing he said that draw his attention was the preview slider.
"The big image and flashing of the news caught my attention first."
Tuesday, November 30, 2010
Friday, November 19, 2010
Multimedia Elements
Week 7:
For our website, we have a lot of images and content. These multimedia element can enhance our group project. We will provide alternate views of multimedia content. In doing so, our information becomes accessible to everyone. For example, we will have text alternatives for the images for people who have disability or pictures that could not load. For low-vision users, text can be magnified by raising the text size or window size. We don't have any sound or videos on the website. However, we do have a small slideshow or preview of animation for displaying events. All the content and preview are drawn from RSS feed. The preview display are only the featured events with provided links for users to click. They are not distractions unless we put featured and important content on the preview slide to lure users to read on.
For our website, we have a lot of images and content. These multimedia element can enhance our group project. We will provide alternate views of multimedia content. In doing so, our information becomes accessible to everyone. For example, we will have text alternatives for the images for people who have disability or pictures that could not load. For low-vision users, text can be magnified by raising the text size or window size. We don't have any sound or videos on the website. However, we do have a small slideshow or preview of animation for displaying events. All the content and preview are drawn from RSS feed. The preview display are only the featured events with provided links for users to click. They are not distractions unless we put featured and important content on the preview slide to lure users to read on.
Saturday, November 13, 2010
Strongest/Weakest Elements
Week 6:
Self-evaluations:
The schedule is going fine. We have done most of the coding already, just the RSS feed we need to draw information from and the calendar. The overall design and all the images took longer to make than I expected..fixing the navigation images. Everyone is doing their part of the job. We still need to finish up with the contract, technical plan, and content soon! Plus, the good part, we are working hard together and doing a good job!
What you did for your group project this week, how you think this adds to the overall success of the project, and give examples of the site's strongest and weakest elements.
This week, what I did was make all the navigation images, revise and fix more of the wireframe layout in how the website should look like.
Self-evaluations:
The schedule is going fine. We have done most of the coding already, just the RSS feed we need to draw information from and the calendar. The overall design and all the images took longer to make than I expected..fixing the navigation images. Everyone is doing their part of the job. We still need to finish up with the contract, technical plan, and content soon! Plus, the good part, we are working hard together and doing a good job!
What you did for your group project this week, how you think this adds to the overall success of the project, and give examples of the site's strongest and weakest elements.
This week, what I did was make all the navigation images, revise and fix more of the wireframe layout in how the website should look like.
Friday, November 5, 2010
Page Length & Size
Week 5:
As I said before, the page design is made for the updates of events and news in San Francisco. The colors varies from different tints and shades of green and blue. For the background, I might make it gradient from sky blue to dark blue. For the footer, we will be putting up a large image of the Golden Gate bridge, so we want the top to look like the sky to all the bottom of the dark blue ocean. The headers are green gradients. I added drop shadow for the content and banner. We have 2 columns. On the right side are the calendar, Facebook, and Twitter updates/feeds. We will have a search bar/engine on the top right. On the left are the main content of featured events are all events and news.
The width of the layout is 1000px. The length has no height, it can extend as long as it can depending on how many posts we put on the page. We decided this size because most browsers are as least 1024px in width. It is wide enough to have 2 columns of content. I think it is a good size, not too wide nor thin. There is no accurate height in pixels. The content will be scrollable, so the content is not all laid out right on the top of the page. There is just too much content, so that's why we separate the events and news into 3 different categories.
As I said before, the page design is made for the updates of events and news in San Francisco. The colors varies from different tints and shades of green and blue. For the background, I might make it gradient from sky blue to dark blue. For the footer, we will be putting up a large image of the Golden Gate bridge, so we want the top to look like the sky to all the bottom of the dark blue ocean. The headers are green gradients. I added drop shadow for the content and banner. We have 2 columns. On the right side are the calendar, Facebook, and Twitter updates/feeds. We will have a search bar/engine on the top right. On the left are the main content of featured events are all events and news.
The width of the layout is 1000px. The length has no height, it can extend as long as it can depending on how many posts we put on the page. We decided this size because most browsers are as least 1024px in width. It is wide enough to have 2 columns of content. I think it is a good size, not too wide nor thin. There is no accurate height in pixels. The content will be scrollable, so the content is not all laid out right on the top of the page. There is just too much content, so that's why we separate the events and news into 3 different categories.
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