Multimedia Experience | Post 1: Sketches and Info

I chose to base my designs around an urban professional user, whose interests include fantasy football, and home brewing. Both of these interests involve a large time investment, careful planning, and a near flawless execution in order to be successful.

home brewers are generally pretty meticulous people. often their interest in beers is very fine tuned, which is shown by their brewing choices. no one home brewer (or, "craft brewer") will ever just tell you that they're brewing 'Beer'. it will always be very specific, and often times, plentiful. these people love to talk about their beers, and some don't even consume much of the brew they make. it is very much a social thing. Beer competitions and festivals are also a must. Craft brewers keep an eye on the competitions quite closely, and are big supporters of the Beer Competition economy.

Fantasy football players are often just as consumed with their game as the brewers their beer. owning a successful fantasy team in a competitive league requires lots of reading, and watching. since player inter league transactions take place on a regular basis, it is important to keep yourself apprised of NFL happenings, and make adjustments to your team as needed. These gamers spend a lot of time on the internet reading articles and trolling through the forums. Major news sites such as NYtimes, and CNN are visited quite frequently when browsing for this information.

MY SKETCHES:


This design would enable the user to have a number (two, for this class) of feed themes, or tags that are collected and rated by the website. users would manage their feed ratings through a navigation panel and the line graph formed by the feeds would represent how much 'interest' the user has in the current feeds for the day. A small quick view of the feed line would be displayed on the bottom left, beneath the navigation panel. Each story would be rated by number.


This design would allow the user to quickly take a broad look at what each article is about. A collapsible panel would be extended from the image associated with each story. From there, the user would be presented with a number (3) of images that represent the top tags in that story. Here again, the user can adjust the priority of all their tags. An icon will also be placed in the top left corner of every story, indicating what category it is in (home brewing, FFootball, etc)




This design offers a mix of the two previous designs. it still allows the user to have their feeds rated for them, while allowing more information about the feeds, as well as a larger picture to draw them into the story more. Thematically, i tried to have it play simply, and comfortably, off of the NYTimes logo.