Interaction Design

While researching the fifth grade science standards I realized how the information can be divided up into sections to make it simple and a lot easier for fifth grade students to learn. 

Just like how we divided up the sections for the pygmy goat project, I have divided up all the information needed to teach the students about clouds into more manageable sections. This will help the site to be a lot easier to navigate. A lot fewer buttons and shorter blocks of texts. Below is my site map of what I think would be the best way to divide up the information.

The site will be divided up into simple easy to understand sections.

This part of the assignment gave me a much better idea as to just how much organization and planning goes into even a very simple website. I feel like I gained valuable skills in organization as I sorted through the research and started planning out how it would be presented. Being able to start from scratch proved to be hard work, but it was well worth the experience.

I first did a rough sketch of the site map I had been visualizing in my mind, then I put all of my information in an ordered document. I separated the information into pages as they would be on the web. When I knew that my site map would in fact work, I made a final copy.I could then think about how the user would most easily navigate those pages, and then I had a general idea of how the website should look. I was then able to make a very basic wire frame to assist me in my sketches.

Like I said, being able to start from the ground up has really helped me understand how a website works. I was also grateful that we were able to see a website deconstructed in the Lynda.com video, but there is something more satisfying about the process of creation, especially creating something on your own. I look forward to seeing if my website will appear on the web as I see it in my mind at this point.