Wednesday, 27 August 2014

Week 5 Contact

Today's contact continued our exploration with prototypes, with interactive prototyping.

Different prototype examples included:
Early prototype for Palm Pilot
Proxemic Interactions Video
FrogBre Microsoft Courier?
Globemasters
Email Guitar

We also looked at the process in creating and developing interactive prototypes.
Design (What?)
generate/explore ideas and solutions
Refine ideas and solutions
Development (How?)
Prototype
Decides materials/methods
Evaluate
Check against your goals
Check your understanding
Does this solve the problem?
Analysis (Why?)
Research/discovery
Understanding the problems

There was also the ME310 Design process, another way to look at designing prototypes, in 5 flexible steps which could be traversed back and forth between each other.

After a few more prototyping concepts, the contact moved onto talking about Flash. We will be using Actionscript 3 (Flash code) in our next prototype to test the interface aspects of our concept.
Actionscript 3 is an Object-Oriented Programming (OOP) language, and the syntax is similar to that of Python, or Javascript.





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