Week 13: Final

Exploring Culture is a community of people interested in learning and sharing their own cultures with others. Set up to be all user input, this site allow users to connect one-on-one or simply to explore and view what others have shared. This isn't quite the final since there are some changes I would like to make, as well as documenting it correctly, but this was what was shown for the presentation final.

Internet is really slow so I'll upload my scribd and more images when I get home.

Week 12: Almost There

This past week was finalizing for the presentation for next week. Our draft presentation was due last Monday and I had the general gist of that done. Below are all the scenarios that I designed for. Most of which will change drastically for next Monday. The profile setup stayed the same somewhat. The second scenario also did. I also did another one that connects the users and start a live chat.

Of course there is still work and by Monday, these will be drastically different. The background and font color with change. I need to work on changing the title and not have it so repetitive. Some stuff about each step will also change to make sense. For now, this is on the right track, hopefully.

Week 11: More Scenarios

This past week, I've been really focusing on finishing up the scenarios. I've been having trouble keeping up with school work as well as other responsibilities so I'm a bit behind. I'm done with two scenarios and over the weekend and for Monday, I hope to get scenario three done. The first scenario with the profile setup was shown last week. Not much has changed about it so I'll just post the second scenario this time.

So this is after the user signs up and customizes their look (hence the very drastic change from the profile setup). This scenario follows the user to look at music, sort by countries, listen to a playlist and leave a comment.

Hover state:

Into music. The playlist on the side stays constant, so only the right hand side changes accordingly.

Starting to play the songs on the side:

Viewing just the playlist section:

Narrowing down playlist by countries or date.

Different viewing methods:

Hovering and selecting one to play:

Reading/leaving comments:

Week 10: Continuing On

For the past week, I've just been working on designing, not much else. I finished the first scenario of profile set up.

I changed the title to Expanding Culture. I like it more than last time but I'm not sure if I'm sold on it yet. I'm still working on the second scenario. The look and feel of that is drastically different since the user gets to customize the website. With that said, I haven't quite committed to something yet so that will have to happen soon. For now, I feel as if I will only have three scenarios but I really hope I will get four. One more week to go!