Week 8: Designing Scenarios

Spring break was a good week away from designing. Since midterm, I've continued on with my design of my scenarios. I designed a second scenario (or rather half) before I decided that I wasn't feeling the design so much. Therefore, I changed it.

Below is the second scenario before I stopped to redesign the first one (which I will show below). It is suppose to be connecting with a penpal and viewing their music. So it starts off with the user on the penpal "tab" and having the option to explore first or commit to another user.

This particular user, Claire, wants to commit so she taps on "let's do it" and selects a country.

Under the countries are names that are matched with her. I added the sex in so that she knows first off but I've been thinking bout adding the age as well. I don't know how important it is.

This was when I stopped with this scenario and just looked at the design in general. I wasn't loving it since it seems really old and dark and boring. So I just scrapped the colors and restarted my first scenario of setting up the profile.

I like it a lot more since it looks "lighter" and not so dark. I'm not quite sold on the map yet but that could be worked on later. The colors I am liking a lot better but the blue seems off. I want a "pop" color, just not sure what it is yet.

As I keep designing, I keep encountering problems that still need to be solved, like how does the user customize what other see (i.e. music playlists, favorite foods, customs and traditions, etc.). I decided that it would be through "categories" but there should also be a button in the profile to set that up as well (which I will add later). Just these little things keep popping up so I will keep on adding them as I go along.

I wasn't in class for midterm presentation so I'm unsure what people think of my design right now so hopefully when I present, I will get good criticism back and be able to go full steam forward with my design. I've just been in this state where I don't want to continue on if it's just going to get changed. So I don't know, it's just been a bleh state to be in. There's only two more weeks of designing before animating/presentation making goes into production and I have four scenarios total, so a lot of designing and focusing will be happening.