final

final
3scenea

flash 3

homework

flash

last week
this week

webpages finals

http://www.mono-1.com/monoface/main.html

i like the interactivity of this site its very simple and invites itself to be played with i would like to make something like this where you instinct is just to start clicking

http://www.apple.com/

I like this site becuase while it is an extensive product liberry it is well organized in a way that you can find what your looking for in a few clicks
the technology on the apple site dosnt seem to be too advanced but i think there could be ways of making it less busy so you can focus on one thing at a time ei when ur looking at an ipod on the page the screen should be stripped down of all the side notes untill u want to see more details about the product

http://www.feelthepower.biz/main.htm

I think this is a really creativ sulution to a standard gallery idea
i would like to see how to do something like this as a way of showing my work instead of the standard thumbnails or light box concept the transition and then layout of the indavidual product information could be set up in a more apealing way

week 8 home work

working j query, spoiler
spoiler
added light box to the gallery page of my website
gallery

respones;

I think it is hard to say wherether flash or xhtml is the solution it seems like both have advantages to themselves and a wide range of fallowers that use one or the other. To stay around both technologies with have to continue to evolve with the needs of designers and to be a succsessfull designer you should be familar with both and when it is the apropiate time to use one over the other otherwise if there is a big shift in favor from one to the other you would be left behind.

It is definatly lame to bash flash when it was responisble for an online media renaissance. I can see many ways that it needs to inplove like long loading times and having to upload plug ins but i think that these are things that adobe will be able to find creative sulutions for witch will keep flash a competior. to xhtml

java

java home work; three examples
home work

website in prog

heres my website in progress

http://mysite.pratt.edu/~pdelmora/homepage.html

home work

Gallery

I’m not thinking

Don’t make me think: The idea of trying to simplify things to the most basic level possible to communicate the information seems to be apparent in most areas of design. What I found useful in this reading about designing for the web was not only understanding how people scan much more then they read but that they will chose the first ok option they see not necessarily the best. It also seems to be really important to make things clickable.

In defense of eye candy response

Reading this article I immediately make connections to the book “Blink” which is focused on the inner working of the brains instant decision making process and how these decisions which seem to be based of fairly little information is usually very accurate.  This is because while some are more then others we are all visual creatures.  We make snap judgments of everything around us based on visual information some of this is because are brains are actually recording much more information then we are cognitively aware of but it also because often our snap judgments are self fulfilling prophesies if we think something is good we give it a better chance to be so.  Without the aesthetic appeal we might dismiss something that we would actually enjoy in with and appealing aesthetic we might even convince our selves to enjoy something that is actually not so great.