Evaluation of Interaction Project

I have now complete a first version and an improved second version of my interaction project.  After i had completed my first version my tutor gave me feedback from which i was then able to apply to my second version and improve on my design for my actual project.  I am much more satisfied with my second version as i believe to be a vast improvement from my first piece, however there a still factors which i think could be improved on.

This is what my interaction piece looks like...

My interaction piece was aimed for a target audience from children aged 4-10.  I feel that my piece suits this target audience due to the illustrations, one design aspect which i feel applied to my target audience was the use of colour.  I began my first version in entirely black and white sketches but i felt that this would loose my target audiences attention which is why throughout my second version i added in the bits of colour which would hopefully gain more attention and make the interaction piece more interesting for the children.  The text i also used created by a font generator and then put into photoshop also applied to my target audience as its quite unprofessional and child-like looking, the font has a kind of squiggly effect which makes it more appealing to a child like eye.  One thing which i feel i was completely certain on was the fact that no actual photographs have been used and althought i feel my piece suits the target audience which means they will be able to interact with it, i feel that the whole idea of adding in actually images would make it seems more professionally created rather than just drawn.  However, i took my time on creating the illustrations which i do feel paid off.

I think that next time i come to use the software i will be able to create a piece of work at a higher level as i feel that i have learnt a lot since creating my second version and i will be able to improve from the aspects i didnt like whilst creating my interaction project.

C.R.A.P Lecture

Contrast - With how something appears to the eye visually, warm colours, cold colours, big fonts, little fonts, italic text, bold text etc
Repetition - Relates to when you repeat one aspect of the design throughout the piece to form consistency
Alignment - nothing should be places on a page arbitrarily, everything should have a connection
Proximity - In relation to how close things are visually, what forms a relationship

Interaction Project!

For our first seminar for the interactive project we were told that for 3 weeks we would be looking at how to create an interactive three dimensional space on the web.

Throughout the whole course i have been designing and sketching my different ideas as part of a design process in an A3 sketch book.  This gives me my initial ideas as im able to brainstorm and draw out my thoughts as to what i want to do with my interactive project as we found out that there is really no limits as to what you can do.  Throughout the seminar we also looked at last years interaction projects which also showed how much variety there is and how much scope we have between ideas.

A particular idea which i became fond of was to create an image of a robot which would act as the basis of my interaction piece, so to get ideas i searched images on google and came up with something like this...