Archive for March, 2012

1. Do you ever go camping?

2. What do you like to do when you go camping?

3. When you came do you rough it, use a tent, or RV/trailer?

4. What things do you like to do when you go camping? (i.e. fishing, hunting, hiking, dirtbike/atv riding, four wheeling)

5. When camping how often do you come across wildlife?

6. When planing your camping trip, how do you find out about places to camp, trails, hunting areas, or information relating to burn-bans and current wildlife rules? Do you plan ahead at all?

7.Do you ever take your phone with you when you go camping, or do you look at it on the way up to the campsite?

8. Considering the following questions, would you ever use a app that has some of hose features?

1. How often do you go to theme parks?
2. What is your favorite theme park? Why?
3. What is your best memory/experience from a theme park?
4. What is your worst memory/experience from a theme park?
5. Have you ever used a “fastpass”? Why or why not?
6. If you could know any info on a ride/attraction before walking to it, what would it be?
7. How important is line length in helping you pick rides and attractions?
8. How important is line length in shaping your overall experience at the theme park?
9. Do you carry a smartphone or mobile device when you go to theme parks? Why/why not?
10. How do you feel about a mobile app that would allow users to view line length and ride status, and place ride reservations from anywhere in the park – and what ideas do you have to expand/improve this app?

1. Do you seek out local art/artists? Why or why not?
2. Do you use image-based social media, such as Pinterest? Why or why not?
3. Do you regularly take photos of nature/buildings/places? Do you share those photos?
4. As an artist, do you create art based your local area?
5. As an artist, how do you share your artwork with others?
6. As an artist, would you want to share your work with a community of artists?

1. Are you a runner, how often do you go running?

2. What are some of the most memorable times of running?

3. What is the primary reason you go running?

4. Can you describe any extreme positive or negative experiences you have running?

5. Where do you usually go running, why?

6. How often do you explore new running routes, do you like to mix it up or keep the same routes?

7. How do you decide on the route you will go running?

8. Do you use any technology to aid your running experience, such as a heart monitor or pedometer?

9. Do you use any applications on your phone for running at the moment? Do you visit any websites about running often?

10. How do you feel about an app that would map out a route for you based on a chosen location or your current location, that would provide you a route in a loop for any chosen distance? What ideas does that concept bring to your mind?

I really enjoyed this project. Blogs are one of the most commonly used formats on the web and i use them constantly, the decision to create a typography blog was an obvious one to me. Its something that I am most familiar with viewing but this project has definetly changed my perspective on their functionality and how delicate the hierarchy and layout of a blog can be. Overall I think my idea was much stronger with this project and the process work helped enormously in formulating that idea. For this project specifically I decided to focus more on my preliminary drawings, which I am increasingly learning more and more that the process is vital to producing a good quality website. On this project I still struggled with finessing the fine details that really made the hierarchy work. Although i feel my design solution was functional and pleasing to look at, I think next time I will approach the initial concept and try to find as many diverse and dynamic solutions as possible. I believe my websites have been lacking a sense of originality and i hope to change that in the future. As far as techinical difficulties it is still takes me quite some time to do work on photoshop and im hoping i can add some more three dimensionality to my work which i feel it is lacking. Overall i really enjoyed this assignment and i find interactive design to be quite a challenge, but also something i would like to continue to improve on. I find that my work tends to use a strick adherance to the grid, while sometime this can be very positive, but i really want to push back the grid. Use it without it dominating the design which is definitely something that can increase the quality of the design.

Newspaper Assignments Manager — iPad

Allows members of a newspaper staff to make, track and sort assignments. It will be optimized for the staggered deadlines that come with web-first publishing, and the newspaper staff be able to ask eachother questions and receive push notifications concerning their story assignments.

Intramural game manager — iPhone

Allows students to see upcoming games, stats, and tournament brackets from their phone. Sends notifications before games and when another teams win/loss affects your standing or schedule.

Running app — iPhone

Helps runners manage and created routes. Routes are generated based on the distance and difficulty the user selects. The difficulty of the course is determined by the app using geographical data. The app also pulls safety data from the number of police reports in a certain area. The user can save, rate, share and repeat routes. The app uses the user’s ratings to predict how they will react to other routes.

1. Happenings in Abilene: A site specific app that will meet the needs of a bored community. It will show you concerts, theatre performances, speakers for different events coming to town, general staple places to go like the movies-what’s playing, putt-putt, etc.
2. Abilene College Survival Guide: Will show students, dorm dwellers or not, places like laundry mats, best hole in the wall restaurants, coffee shops, study spots, etc.
3. Concerts near You: With the help of those submitting information, it will advertise what concerts are happening near and far and when…ranging from big names to garage bands.
4. Healthy Food Finder: Will suggest places such as grocery stores and restaurants that meet certain criteria of a healthy lifestyle. Will have option to look for food sensitivity options as well.
5. Couch Surfing: An app that will help you find a place to crash for the night FOR FREE, whether you’re passing through or would like to have the native experience of a town in leu of the tourist traps. Following safety guidelines of couchsurfing.org.

1. Abilene Event App
   Event app for college students since there is “nothing to do” in this town
2. Shopping App
   Places in Abilene to shop that are site specific to Abilene ie. boutiques, mom and pop stores
3. Coupon App
   App for college students that shows different coupons or sales for places in Abilene
4. Recycle App
   Places to recycles, and all information on recycling for tree huggers. Also other tree-hugging information
5. Purse App
   Take a picture of a purse, find out who made it and where the nearest one is to purchase
   

1. Restaurant ordering app. Checks allergies/ingredients/manages hours and scheduling.

2. What’s happening near you app. Checks online for nearby sales/concerts/specials/events etc. and sends you updates based on your gps location.

3. Lost pet app. An amalgamation of vet websites and animal shelters websites, alerts you if a pet is reported missing in your area, or if one has been found. Pretty much a quicker way to spread information concerning lost and found pets.

4. Friends statuses and what not. Syncs your iphone and facebook with text messages and alamrs. Could help with intramural events to send out group texts reminding people of games and practices, or if someone updates with some event going on, it would send out a mass text/reminder letting specified people know what’s going on.

5.  A personal Health tracker app. Plug in what you eat throughout the day, what exercise you do throughout the day, you plug in your current health standings, and your target health statistics, and the app can keep you honest and on track with how you need to live your life.