Thursday, 25 September 2008

Designing for the user - 2

I've now chosen all of my ideas and finished my presentation. I'm going to be presenting it in flash which will help me integrate video into my presentation better. I'm not going to revel my every day object yet :P

Wednesday, 24 September 2008

Designing for the user - 1

So we've started a new project called designing for the user, where we have to examine the way a user uses something through an interface. As we're doing games we'll be looking at GUI (graphical user interface). Next week we have to bring in a presentation on a bad gui, a good gui and also an everyday object with a bad user interface.

For my good gui I've chosen TF2 and theres elements of that, that I want to introduce to my GUI that I make later on (Mainly the way that you have the option to have minimal GUI or the standard GUI). For my bad one, well it was a hard choice as every game should go through enough user testing to make sure its not a bad GUI, but in the end it was Generals and Gods, which I found by searching for the worst games I could.

I still haven't found my every day object...