Today was basically going through the new storyboard and made a few changes to it.
Other than that, we spent most of the day doing our own individual task as usual.
Signing off,
Karen.
Wednesday 12 October 2011
Week 6, Day 28, 12 October 2011
First draft of the storyboard and flowchart for our refine intent.
Today was basically going through the new storyboard and made a few changes to it.
Other than that, we spent most of the day doing our own individual task as usual.
Signing off,
Karen.
Today was basically going through the new storyboard and made a few changes to it.
Other than that, we spent most of the day doing our own individual task as usual.
Signing off,
Karen.
Monday 10 October 2011
Week 5, Day 25, 07 October 2011
Today was one of the most important day for us.
Interim Presentation
It was nerve racking moment waiting for the lecturers to arrive at 4pm, not knowing whether the deputy director of SiDM, Mr Yang Tien, will be present for the interim presentation.
Nevertheless, we volunteer ourselves to be the first group to present.
Unfortunately, we've made a big mistake.
We shouldn't have spend so much time on explaining our initial concepts. The whole presentation ended off at 15 minutes and we couldn't explain more on our final concept, storyboard, graphic interface and the most important video demonstration, which could have help us to explain the overall concept.
Perhaps it was the preservation to condemn our first concept that we've worked for 3 weeks.
Another day of dismay....
Signing off,
Karen
Interim Presentation
It was nerve racking moment waiting for the lecturers to arrive at 4pm, not knowing whether the deputy director of SiDM, Mr Yang Tien, will be present for the interim presentation.
Nevertheless, we volunteer ourselves to be the first group to present.
Unfortunately, we've made a big mistake.
We shouldn't have spend so much time on explaining our initial concepts. The whole presentation ended off at 15 minutes and we couldn't explain more on our final concept, storyboard, graphic interface and the most important video demonstration, which could have help us to explain the overall concept.
Perhaps it was the preservation to condemn our first concept that we've worked for 3 weeks.
Well... It was a pity.
But we learnt our lesson.
But we learnt our lesson.
Anyway, these were some of the comments given by the lecturers.
- Does the purpose of completing one message make me want to meet up?
- Does the medium matter?
- Try to simplify the process when creating the message. Too complex for user to got through so many steps just to send a message.
- What is the objective for the gathering? Is the reward valuable or meaningful enough?
- The logo gives a corporate feel.
Why are we approaching the western style? Is there a reason behind it?
- The logo gives a corporate feel.
Why are we approaching the western style? Is there a reason behind it?
Another day of dismay....
Signing off,
Karen
Sunday 9 October 2011
Week 5, Day 24, 06 October 2011
Tomorrow is the presentation day, thus
today gonna be hectic hectic! After the designers
had finished the demonstration postcard desgin,
Karen and i went to sunshine plaza to print out some
prototype.
prototype looking awesome but the front
part seems mismatching to the back...
to make sure the marker is working, we did a test before
heading back to school... luckily all is good!
Meanwhile, li jia and ayu are doing some finalization of
the style guide and graphical user interface...
and i shall go back to the presentation slides.
-jin yu
today gonna be hectic hectic! After the designers
had finished the demonstration postcard desgin,
Karen and i went to sunshine plaza to print out some
prototype.
prototype looking awesome but the front
part seems mismatching to the back...
to make sure the marker is working, we did a test before
heading back to school... luckily all is good!
Meanwhile, li jia and ayu are doing some finalization of
the style guide and graphical user interface...
and i shall go back to the presentation slides.
-jin yu
Wednesday 5 October 2011
Week 5, Day 23, 05 October 2011
The interim presentation is just around the corner, and we have like 2 days left to put our stuff together for the presentation? *stress mode on*
So finally today we finalize he colour of the logo. Again I came up with a lot of choices for them to chose and we will pick the best one.
So finally today we finalize he colour of the logo. Again I came up with a lot of choices for them to chose and we will pick the best one.
Chosen logo!
Polished logo!
Programmer art on how the postcard will look like.
front view of the postcard
back view of the postcard
Andrew came in and consult with us. He like the previous idea where the postcard was cut into pieces and people have to come together to view the message. So we are going back to that direction with proper looking postcard with graphics which Lijia is doing now.
ALL of us went home late today. Everyone was so tired and sleep.
Hope everything go smoothly during the presentation!
We are left with the UI (user interface) design and ppt slides for the presentation.
:/
- Ayuuu
Week 5, Day 22, 04 October 2011
It is already the 2nd day of week 5. Time flies so fast! We are left with 2-3 weeks left and there is a lot of things to be done. All of us are putting in a lot of our time and effort in this. We hope to be able to COMPLETE the whole idea within this short period of time.
I came up with a few digitalize logo design for our idea..
And out of the many, we decided to choose this!
Because we feel that this logo gives us the retro look and feel.
Lijia is finishing up her layout for styleguide while Karen and Jinyu continue working on figuring out the code and all the back end part.
We also had a discussion and refine our idea. We thought that having people to come together to reveal the secret message is quite lame as we think that people won't bother to come together just to see the message. Maybe for the first time only.
So decided to change it to papercut postcard, where the receiver have to cut the character and paste it on the white with black border to reveal the message and at the back, there will be a "handwritten" (font) message from the sender to the receiver.
As we said earlier our application is web application can be versatile.
There is no limitation of the postcard to be use for and it is up to the user creativity.
Our web application can also be sent into 3 different ways..
1) One to one (eg. personal message/dedication)
2) Many to one (eg. birthday surprise)
3) One to Many (eg. invitation)
- Ayuuu
Monday 3 October 2011
Week 5, Day 21, 03 October 2011
A month has passed. So far, the progress for our group seems to be alright.
We currently working on the logo, style guide and on the go to get started with programming, which consist of Facebook Api and Flash Actionscript 3.0 for our web application.
We had come to a agreement that this web application can be versatile.
There is no limitation of the postcard to be use for and it is up to the user creativity.
Unfortunately, we couldn't do anything much for the day as all of us have to leave school and head towards the travel agency at Serangoon for our tickets and application for visa to China.
Signing off,
Karen.
We currently working on the logo, style guide and on the go to get started with programming, which consist of Facebook Api and Flash Actionscript 3.0 for our web application.
We had come to a agreement that this web application can be versatile.
There is no limitation of the postcard to be use for and it is up to the user creativity.
This is the latest flowchart, so far.
Unfortunately, we couldn't do anything much for the day as all of us have to leave school and head towards the travel agency at Serangoon for our tickets and application for visa to China.
IT'S OFFICIAL!
Signing off,
Karen.
Sunday 2 October 2011
Week 4, Day 20, 30 September 2011
Now that we are very sure of what's the project will be, i shall recap the whole
project.
Project Name: PALK
What is it about?
This project is about communication between users
via the facebook (social media) and postcard.
Why facebook and postcard?
Digital social media had brought human
"closer" than ever and this had almost entirely replaced the traditional way of communication.
As the digital medias allows messages to be delivered instantly,
However these digital methods of communicating don't
capture the feeling when you get hold of a real physical
letter on hand.
In order to allow humans to enjoy the convenience of digital communication and
beauty of traditional communication, we came up with this project that make use of
modern and traditional communication.
What kind of traditional communication?
We are mainly working on interpersonal communication.
After much thoughts, we felt that digital communication cause us to lose
interpersonal communication as we abused the convenience of digital media
to communicate and thus stop meeting up people.
Why interpersonal communication?
Interpersonal Communication is important as it is the
key to overcoming doubts and misunderstandings.
It gives more hint and evidence on the message sent.
How the execution will be like?
The sender will engage our service by logging onto our website using facebook,
upon logging in, user will need to enter their own address for us to track and mail to.
Next, user will take a few snapshot using the webcam.
After that user will enter a short 140 character message to the recipient(s) [optional]
and the facebook friend-list will show up for mailing purpose.
After all the digital process are completed, a physical postcard with
a "mysterious looking" design and instruction to visit a website
will be mailed to the sender and recipient(s).
In order to view the final message,
the recipient need to initiate a meet up/ exchanging a way to see the final message
as the people involves in this message each holds a key to the message.
Why such a hassle?
This long process allow senders to experience the "exciting" feeling
from waiting a return mail from recipient. For recipients, when receiving an unexpected letter
from acquaintance, it will brighten their day.
To able to continue such a long process communication, it clearly shows that both party are
important to each other thus the "hassle" gradually became a enjoyable process.
project.
Project Name: PALK
What is it about?
This project is about communication between users
via the facebook (social media) and postcard.
Why facebook and postcard?
Digital social media had brought human
"closer" than ever and this had almost entirely replaced the traditional way of communication.
As the digital medias allows messages to be delivered instantly,
However these digital methods of communicating don't
capture the feeling when you get hold of a real physical
letter on hand.
In order to allow humans to enjoy the convenience of digital communication and
beauty of traditional communication, we came up with this project that make use of
modern and traditional communication.
What kind of traditional communication?
We are mainly working on interpersonal communication.
After much thoughts, we felt that digital communication cause us to lose
interpersonal communication as we abused the convenience of digital media
to communicate and thus stop meeting up people.
Why interpersonal communication?
Interpersonal Communication is important as it is the
key to overcoming doubts and misunderstandings.
It gives more hint and evidence on the message sent.
How the execution will be like?
The sender will engage our service by logging onto our website using facebook,
upon logging in, user will need to enter their own address for us to track and mail to.
Next, user will take a few snapshot using the webcam.
After that user will enter a short 140 character message to the recipient(s) [optional]
and the facebook friend-list will show up for mailing purpose.
After all the digital process are completed, a physical postcard with
a "mysterious looking" design and instruction to visit a website
will be mailed to the sender and recipient(s).
In order to view the final message,
the recipient need to initiate a meet up/ exchanging a way to see the final message
as the people involves in this message each holds a key to the message.
Why such a hassle?
This long process allow senders to experience the "exciting" feeling
from waiting a return mail from recipient. For recipients, when receiving an unexpected letter
from acquaintance, it will brighten their day.
To able to continue such a long process communication, it clearly shows that both party are
important to each other thus the "hassle" gradually became a enjoyable process.
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