Interaction Design

Here’s a look

http://mungerdickson.com

A little more class

This layout is by far my cleanest. I’ve gotten rid of a lot of elements that just weren’t necessary on prior layouts. It is easy to navigate from where ever it is you land in the site and is wholly contained within 960×600.

Maybe I was watching a star trek marathon...

So ideally I would like the keep the audience on the same page for most of the experience. This layout still needs additional tabs and descriptors but is communicating the feel I think I want for this site.

a better structure

I remember 5th grade science being fun. I had a teacher that knew how to grab kid’s attention and make the most out of it. I wanted to do my site on my favorite assignment from that time, rockets and flight.

Like many of us, I found that there wasn’t much out there for a demographic made up of 5th graders. To really find things geared towards that age group I resorted to science centers and T.V. shows. Bill Nye the science guy was especially effective, (in my opinion.) For web sites I found the following to be the most plausible competitors:

1. http://home.earthlink.net/~mmc1919/venturi.html
2. http://www.av8n.com/how/htm/airfoils.html
3. http://www.howstuffworks.com/rocket.htm

My objectives:

1. Understand that air is buoyant, takes up space and exerts pressure.
2. Understand that air has mass and density
3. Understand Bernoulli’s principle
4. Understand  that there are number of forces at work that enable aircraft to fly, ie: gravity, lift, thrust and drag.

So it seems to me that everyone else already knew about InDesign’s ability to generate a book that way. I however, was beforehand unawares of such features.

I knew about character and paragraph styles but I’ll now be able to go about printing tasks more efficiently. This assignment also started me thinking about focus groups and targeting demographics. Sure, we all went through and organized the information based on whatever type was put in front of us, but really WHO was it organized for? Bro. Franson, our other classmates or some mysterious other character still unknown to us that will forever remain in the shadows… I think that will serve everyone quite well to be thinking of that throughout our next assignment.