Wireframing

I have been wireframing in order to gain a basic visual reference of the structure of the fundamental elements and information that will be displayed upon the application’s pages.

I have created various wireframes to show differing variations of possible layouts, in order to develop a suitable structure for my application, see Wireframes below:

In all of the above wireframes, I have stuck with the touch screen best practice of placing the navigation at the bottom of the screen, so that users do not obscure content with their arms whilst navigating.

I narrowed the possibilities down to these two see below:

In both wireframes a user would see a title at the top of the page indicting their position within the application and the navigation is at the bottom as I mentioned earlier, but the centre of the application is where I had a decision to make. The potential user will look at the application from left to right which is the normal reading method in the western world, in wireframe 1 the user encounters the image first followed by the information and in wireframe 2 the user encounters the information first, followed by the image and an argument can be made for using both layouts.

You could say that the user needs to learn the information before looking at the image, which they can then apply their new found knowledge to but this is not the layout I chose and here is why; the application is about looking at portraiture and it is entitled ‘Look at Me’, so I felt the user should first look at the image, then read the information and if need be take a second, deeper more informed look at the image, this should help the user to get into the habit of looking at portraits before reading the information about them, which is part of the application’s purpose. See chosen layout below:

Presentation Arranged

Adele has just confirmed a time and date for my proposal presentation, and it will be

Thursday November 4^th at 1.30pm

I am slightly worried though as she wants my presentation delivered in the Windows movie maker format. I have never used Windows movie maker before nor did I know it could be used for presentations? Learning curve needed, very little time.

Proposal Document

I have just finished putting together a proposal document to present to my client as part of my project, I have also contacted my client in order to arrange a suitable time and place to deliver my proposal.

Possible Themes

Here are two possible themes for my application the first is designed with children in mind without being overly child oriented see below:

The second is a more sophisticated theme see below:

Project Structure

Here is the intended page structure for my application, I intend to have 4 sections of primary navigation two of which will have subsections.

This structure will hopefully allow me to organize the information in a way that is easy to understand and find for the end user.

There is also room for change expansion as the project develops.

Reading Portraiture

I have found another online guide towards reading portraiture on the mylearning website please take a look:

http://www.mylearning.org/jpage.asp?journeyid=144&jpageid=606

I believe theses guides are great and I intend to base the information in my application around them but I believe the ability for users to access this information will be better served in an environment where users can put the techniques into practice i.e. in a gallery.

My application will facilitate the needs of viewers at the location where their knowledge is challenged.