User Testability

I started today with the user testability for the Ai Life site.
I ask a couple of colleagues I've had work with in the past and they came up with very good critiques and suggestions.

From the artistic point of view: An Illustrator said: "I liked the header of the page and the colors we picked" yet she also mention that the flash animation at the bottom has its own style and could of been more incorporated style wise to the whole site.

A Graphic Designer said: "I like that you guys are working on WordPress" but at the same time it is slowing us down with the usage of typefaces and different styles such as CSS. I personally think as well that we could have a little more styles for the pages. We could have use different colors for the hover states of the links, etc.

An Ai Student said: "I would of be nice to see more students interacting with eachother in the campus" Yes, I think we will include more graphics that will include student interaction as well as what the school actually looks like insde and outside.

Overall, I think that the minor details that we are lacking off will get fix when we meet again, critique and exchange information based on our user testability.

Week 10th. Cracking it down

So we met yesterday with our group and discussed some issues that happened in the past. The gang talked about things we did wrong and how we can improve from those experiences.

Art Work

So last week, the group worked on illustrating most of the images and I came up with the GG bridge and some trees and the Palace of Fine Arts. The rest of the art work has been manipulated by Brent in Flask. This week, we are focusing on the heather for the site.
I am doing some research to find out what would fit the best with the interactive footer.

The 6th week progress

For this week we have planned to finalized the footer for the site. The design team has put up some images together as well as a color scheme. We have not yet come up with a header for the site yet but we are in the talking for it.
Since we are going from ground to sky the header should have some cloudy background with some other animations of it.

Design References - - Sites that use WordPress

Here is a list of site that utilize WordPress as their platform. Take a look of their designs and have a feedback of how our site can implement a stronger sense of design instead of just boxes.

http://particletree.com/
http://www.cokestudio.com.pk/
http://www.wanderinggoat.com/
http://livestrongblog.org/

Design aspects for our Site

Last class, I was appointed to be the Art Director.
Today, my design team: Rhadney, Brent and Arturo will bring to the table what they worked on over the past week.
We need to conclude to what the site should look like and what feeling we would like to give it.
Personally I would like to have a very simple yet classy look for it.

The Functional Specification

A functional specification is the set of documentation that describes the requested behavior of a system or product to be made. The documentation typically describes what is needed by the system user as well as requested properties of inputs and outputs.
It can also be make by creating a flow chart that will describe step by step the process to be follow.

Here a simple example of the chart: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a2/Specification_and_Levels_of_Development.jpg

Specification is a document that clearly and accurately describes the essential technical requirements for items, materials, or services including the procedures by which it can be determined that the requirements have been met. Specifications help avoid duplication and inconsistencies, allow for accurate estimates of necessary work and resources, act as a negotiation and reference document for engineering changes, provide documentation of configuration, and allow for consistent communication among those responsible.

Production Planning

Our teacher at the Ai required a blog for our new class, Production planning. So here I am