Been busy writing project plan and developing prototype...

As a result, I nearly forgot about the blogs. However, I'll try to catch up and talk about what I've been doing recently.

1. Project plan.

Yup, I and my teammate wrote a 2700 words project plan which is quite amazing to me. We've presented our draft before we hand in our final version. In my opinion, if I know how to release stress during presentation, I can do a much better job than that day.

We know that we have to keep the time limit, but 3 minutes is just impossible to cover up everything. So, the trick is find a balance between content and timing, which we basically have to talk something in detail but within the time. However, I seriously doubt that it is impossible to cover up details within 3 minutes. Why? Just take a look at everybody's presentation and you'll understand. How many people actually keep in the time limit. If people can actually present bellow 3 minutes, I doubt that they worked hard on their assignment.

However, what is done is done. Seems like everybody is happy. So, I'm happy...



2. Low-fidelity Prototype

Hmm...still remember that day when most of the people just can't be bother to go to the lecture. Unlike other people who is intellgible, I'm a dumb so I attend the lecture. Yup...I've declared thata low-fidelity prototype will be done after this week.

Anyway...Flash should be shot since it wouldn't allow a rollover within another rollovered interface, which is crap and nearly killed our entire project. Luckly after a series of hardcore research, I've finally found a way to get around it. Instead of using "rollover", it use "onEnterframe" with "hittest" function (Something like...hmm...I assume is mouse collusion)

After dealing with the stupid rollover issues...the rest seems to be easy. I'm also amazed that all I need to do is to change slightly a bit of the existing non-click interface and will make people's life easier. However, I still have to prove my concept by doing user testing.

iMac site is strangely easy to modify. There are only 2 main different ways to design the interface inside the website. Shouldn't be too hard to make. I've done like 80% of the low-fidelity prototype within a few hours. After is done, I'm going to do user testing right away...

Bellow are some of my research which had been done recently:

News:

http://www.macrumors.com/2007/04/12/apple-patent-application-for-button-less-mouse-design/
http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/07/04/12/next_gen_apple_mouse_may_dump_scroll_ball_for_touch_housing.html

Reviews:

http://weblensblogs.blogspot.com/2006/04/dont-click-it-interface-breakthrough.html
http://looksgoodworkswell.blogspot.com/2005/11/musings-on-mouse-hover.html

Issues:
http://board.flashkit.com/board/showthread.php?threadid=588678

Cool Programs:
http://www.altia.com/products_photoproto.php

Posted by David at 7:02 AM 0 comments