This is an interesting view of design. Tom Peter's has written about design (among other things) for a long time. You all might find this interesting given the discussions we've had in class.
http://www.tompeters.com/dispatches/011215.php
I happened upon a group of people at the Living Lightly Fair held at the Minetrista Cultural Center on Saturday, 9/19. The group consists of architecture faculty and students who are creating an Arts and Cultural bike trail that will run through the city and the campus and connect to the greenway and white river trails. They have agreement from the city who says they will particiapte (don't know what this really means) and they are in the process of designing the trail and activities that might happen along the trail. We need to link up with this group and include in the MyMuncie City application! This has great potential.
So this week no one has content to work on. We're just sitting and waiting to see how the users liked/disliked our interface. Their feedback will allow the next round of iMedia students to develop even further and create a product that is even closer to what our viewer is looking for.
I think the semester has gone grea; we got all of our content up and I think everything looks great. I think it was a great idea that we split the course up into two semesters. Having the time to develop a great looking interface and then having the next semester to put it to work was really beneficial.
Being involved in research has been quite the eye opener. Having the ability to create something and then get immediate feedback is something I'm glad I experienced. It allowed me to pay attention to what I'm creating. Most importantly, it taught me to create as if I was a user and how I would react to such content.
I hope the next group of iMedia students create something even better and allow the project to develop and advance.
I'm thinking that maybe my career should just be sports graphics. I've learned to really love illustrating athletic activities. I learn a lot and the turn out has always been great.
This week I'm working on a timeline about Greg Beals, the baseball coach. I'm getting photos from the media relations specialist working with Ball State Sports, so hopefully I can get some great photos to add with the content.
It's going to be a simple piece, but I think it will really add to the package.
I'm having trouble believing that we're already in week three with one more to go. Our stories are going up on time and are all looking great, so I think we're in awesome shape.
Hopefully the students and faculty using the news give us feedback that will help the next semester of iMedia students.
This week is the first week we have live content pushing to the iPhone Web application. Earlier in the week I checked out the app to see how it looked; since then I've been showing it off to friends. So far everyone I've showed it to love the way it looks and how you can interact with it.
For this week I have a narrative graphic about how motion capture works. It's a very complicated process that was difficult to put into a relatively short narrative graphic. I figured it out and I think the end product turned out well.
For this week I've been working with Stephanie Cope figuring out what kind of graphics we can do about a company that's moving into Muncie. The company makes different types of industrial equipment, some of which is used in green energy applications like wind power. I think we're going to end up doing a graphic about how some of the technology works and how it can be used.
We're off working on our first week of REAL content! I'm excited to see everything pull together in just one week and be successful. I think all of our stories are going to be finished on time without any problems (or I'm hoping!!).
I'm working on an illustration of the "perfect" golf swing with audio of Coach Fleck describing each movement. Along with my sports package will be a video and another illustration explaining the motion tools used to calculate physical activities.
I think we're all starting to work like a team and use our skills together. With our difference backgrounds, I think we can turn out some awesome news pieces. I'm looking forward to checking out the user testing in a few weeks.
This is the first week that my classmates and I have content due that's going to be published for testing. We've already created evergreen content that can be put on the phone whenever we need it. Now we're down to more timely topics that are going to be completed on deadline.
For the first week I have to complete a graphic about motion capture technology and how the golf team here is using it. I'm going to be working with someone from the Human Performance Lab to find out the particulars about how the technology works. After that I'll be creating a narrative graphic based on how the technology works.
I love technology in all forms so I'm very excited to get the information for this graphic and put it all together. It should be very cool to show users of our iPhone application how motion capture technology is used right here at Ball State. I've seen this same technology used for video games and in other areas, but I never would have imagined it would be used on campus. I'm sure that's the same for most students on campus as well.
It should be interesting to see how people react to the phone application when they're using it every day. I can't wait until all the data is collected so we can see how our work is being consumed and what we did well or might need to change.