Visual Communication Design 2011 – Group G
Process Report Paragraph
Tuesday, March 29, 2011
Re-redesign
Results of the User test
Thursday, March 24, 2011
Work in progress
Tuesday, March 22, 2011
Final Concept
Self-running Presentation guidelines
For the final presentation, we have to make a self-running presentation (=a movie).
Our first guidelines for the movie are as following:
1. Introduction of the course and group (5sec)
[we still need a group photo]
2. A bit about the process (30sec)
Slideshow of us working and the different concepts we have developed. [photos]
3. The final design (30sec)
What are the visual cues we used? [images]
4. The tests (60sec)
What do people think/say/do? [footage]
The results [graph]
5. Outro (5sec)
Ideas for redesign map of Delft
The biggest comment was that our route was used as an indicator and not shown in a circle. The easiest solution to overcome this problem is to place an ellipse over our existing map.
Since we all agree this is not what we are looking for either we tried to come up with some other solutions, of which one of them is developed a bit further in Illustrator.
In this case the route has become an ellipse with the icons on the route with the use of depth perception > bigger icons come first. Next to this a gradient is used to make icons look further away with a depth gradient. The building is used to attract people to the lighter side of the route. However since the contrast is bigger on the other side there are some contradicting aspects and people are attracted to the other side.
So these redesigns all still need some work, which we are going to work on this week.
Thursday, March 17, 2011
Feedback concept presentation
After the presentation last Tuesday we received some comments we can use to improve our concept.
Comments:
- The route can not be used as an indicator and needs to be 100% the same in both images.
- It is logical to place the starting point at the bottom.
- The route needs to be represented in a circle, but should not be exactly shown in the image.
- Occlusion does not seem to work at all times.
- Contrast need to be visible when eyes are pinched.
- Check for the affordances if you would go to the high buildings or try to avoid them.
- Water can be used as a reference point (how many bridges do you need to cross).
- The map can not be brought along; it is a point of taking the route clockwise or counterclockwise.
- Color can be more important than size.
- A person can not be used as an indicator; it almost functions as an arrow.
Unfortunately our solution did not really fit the desired result, so there need to be some changes, which we will try to implement in the upcoming week.