Design = Life

I haven’t quite finished yet, still a lot I would like to do, but check it out newmediaquilt.radiesel.com

For Dynamic Persuasion we have to do a project that uses image uploads in flash. I decided that I wanted to do a quilt. When I was 17 my Grandma gave me a quilt of all these old scraps of fabric from different things in her life. It is really one of the gifts that [...]

Interactive marketing today seems to be predominantly made up of experiential interfaces that seek to involve the user to the point of either buying an idea or product. While there are very few websites I spend more than a minute at, those websites that truly get to me have some common characteristics:

As you all may know I’ve been working the past couple of weeks to implement the Message Forms project for my Dynamic Persuasion class. Finally the project is complete! Yay! I hope everyone goes to check it out. You should also go check out different solutions to the same project by some of my classmates, [...]

I have a rough version of message forms up right now to use. There is still some more functionality to add. Here’s the link.

Right now I’m in the process of working on my MessageForms project for my Dynamic Persuasion class and I recently ran into a problem with having several overlapping textfields in flash. For some reason when the textfields were on top of one another the top textfields would act as masks to the bottom text fields. [...]

I FINALLY finished (minus a couple of minute details) the Message Forms Comps. The navigation system is a little bit more experimental, but I think it should work out pretty well (I hope).

Here are just some preliminary comps for project 1 which I am calling ‘Message Forms’. I’m still working with how I want the message forms to be paginated. So more comps will likely be posted. Comments are always welcome so let me know what you think.

The assignment for project 1 is to create an interactive experience using user-generated content. After ditching a few ideas here’s what I came up with…thank you to Alan Fletcher’s book The Art of Looking Sideways for saving the day on this one. My Inspiration: “When a word changes shape (by superimposing letters) it can change [...]