Got quite a bit accomplished this week. Class gave us a bit of time to hammer out some more group ideas and progress/wrap-up before spring break.
I met with Alyssa and Elise on Friday. Overall they like the visual design and we all pretty much agree on content and organization. I received pretty much all the content and reaffirmed that we would not be able to deliver a fully coded Spanish side to the website. We defined the detail associated with that quite well.
Sent out a few visual design tweaks on Friday night. Pretty minimal changes. They said that the design went over better with the staff than any other design has before. I'll say that is good news. Alyssa and Elise are totally on board.
Surprisingly, the brown we used in the design was received with a cautionary stigma of reference to latino people/skin. Alyssa said that Rodolfo reacted this way to the use of the color and doesn't want to see brown used in the color palette. Not a big deal, but kind of a weird surprise.
Sunday, March 29, 2009
Tuesday, March 24, 2009
Week 008
This week has been pretty eventful. Since last class we have been working hard on Visual Design and working out all the kinks.
Alyssa got sick this weekend, so we weren't able to have our meeting to talk about Visual Design direction on Monday, which has been a bit frustrating since I really wanted to get some feedback before everything went to their staff meeting on Thursday.
I was really thankful that Kristoffer was available (and kind enough) to come in and meet with our group on Thursday morning. It really helped push our critique in the right direction and got everyone more unified in what the website needs to be visually.
After Kris left, we pulled together, did some group designing to come up with a cohesive Visual Design direction, and made a whole site map and wire frames on the white board together. It went over really well and gave us another good push in the right direction. Hopefully we can continue this momentum!
Alyssa got sick this weekend, so we weren't able to have our meeting to talk about Visual Design direction on Monday, which has been a bit frustrating since I really wanted to get some feedback before everything went to their staff meeting on Thursday.
I was really thankful that Kristoffer was available (and kind enough) to come in and meet with our group on Thursday morning. It really helped push our critique in the right direction and got everyone more unified in what the website needs to be visually.
After Kris left, we pulled together, did some group designing to come up with a cohesive Visual Design direction, and made a whole site map and wire frames on the white board together. It went over really well and gave us another good push in the right direction. Hopefully we can continue this momentum!
Sunday, March 15, 2009
Week 007
Shoot! I hope I didn't actually miss Week 007... Or maybe I just need to journal Week 007 before class of Week 008. I always confuse myself with these things, because homework for a class is done as homework for Week 001, but is due on Week 002.... Bleh. NEXT -->
Okay, so here's the real journal. We got a bit done last week. Barbara created an awesome color study for us, Ivona went on an exploration of a library to find out about usability in obtaining information, which drew some nice conclusions for us, Amy finished our Competitive Analysis, and I snagged all the code off HACER's website and made into something we can actually work with on my computer.
Kristoffer gave us some great insight into our next research steps this week and was great about helping us with options.
Kris - Not sure if you read my journal from a few weeks ago and changed something because of that... If you didn't, well it doesn't matter because you were great this week. If you did, then thank you and I have the utmost respect for a teacher who listens to their classes opinions. Thank you.
For next week Barbara is continuing in color and developing a color survey we can give to people to further test our color ideas for the site, Ivona is writing up some usability survey questions, Amy is preparing a SWOT Analysis, and I am working on a status update and meeting agenda for HACER to make sure everything we are doing and communicating with them is aligning with our goals, objectives, and HACER's mission. I also want to clarify what our visual design goals are. I've got it down to a T:
Fresh & Professional
Friendly
Multi-cultural (without looking like a Mexican restaurant)
Tomorrow (Monday March 16th) we will be meeting with HACER to do some consultation on their content edits as well as present our color and usability research. Wish us luck!
Okay, so here's the real journal. We got a bit done last week. Barbara created an awesome color study for us, Ivona went on an exploration of a library to find out about usability in obtaining information, which drew some nice conclusions for us, Amy finished our Competitive Analysis, and I snagged all the code off HACER's website and made into something we can actually work with on my computer.
Kristoffer gave us some great insight into our next research steps this week and was great about helping us with options.
Kris - Not sure if you read my journal from a few weeks ago and changed something because of that... If you didn't, well it doesn't matter because you were great this week. If you did, then thank you and I have the utmost respect for a teacher who listens to their classes opinions. Thank you.
For next week Barbara is continuing in color and developing a color survey we can give to people to further test our color ideas for the site, Ivona is writing up some usability survey questions, Amy is preparing a SWOT Analysis, and I am working on a status update and meeting agenda for HACER to make sure everything we are doing and communicating with them is aligning with our goals, objectives, and HACER's mission. I also want to clarify what our visual design goals are. I've got it down to a T:
Fresh & Professional
Friendly
Multi-cultural (without looking like a Mexican restaurant)
Tomorrow (Monday March 16th) we will be meeting with HACER to do some consultation on their content edits as well as present our color and usability research. Wish us luck!
Wednesday, March 4, 2009
Week 006
Good things progressing things this week. We had a very productive meeting with HACER on Monday that got us to some good conclusions with content. We even gave Alyssa and Elise the assignment of making a visual map of the content with some print-outs we gave them and then editing all the content for us then to come in a consult with them on their changes in two weeks. Very happy about this.
I've got a few concerns still about coding etc, but I think I can work it out.
Still trying to figure out how to fit everyone's skills into the right slots to benefit the project the most. I really want to create a great product, but I'm a little skittish about how it will all go down, even with careful planning.
Speaking of planning, That's something I've been doing a lot of. Project Management is a lot of work even though you aren't necessarily composing the components of the project, there really is a ton of organization and thought goes into keeping everything on track and utilizing your resources to the highest benefit of the project. I've consulted a number of professors on the workings of my calendar. It works well for me, but there are still revisions to be made on a weekly basis.
Aside form that, I will begin coding this week.
I'm also pretty happy with the little mood board we all made at the end of class this week!
I've got a few concerns still about coding etc, but I think I can work it out.
Still trying to figure out how to fit everyone's skills into the right slots to benefit the project the most. I really want to create a great product, but I'm a little skittish about how it will all go down, even with careful planning.
Speaking of planning, That's something I've been doing a lot of. Project Management is a lot of work even though you aren't necessarily composing the components of the project, there really is a ton of organization and thought goes into keeping everything on track and utilizing your resources to the highest benefit of the project. I've consulted a number of professors on the workings of my calendar. It works well for me, but there are still revisions to be made on a weekly basis.
Aside form that, I will begin coding this week.
I'm also pretty happy with the little mood board we all made at the end of class this week!
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