Brief 2 | Online Research

http://www.creaktif.com/

http://patrickstump.com/



http://www.paulblow.com/



http://www.akqa.com



http://www.2advanced.com


Since our main task is to create an interactive website design, where better to search than in the www! But with existing millions of 'interactive' websites, I filtered a few which impressed me design and strong-idea-wise.

Brief 2 | Book Research

Research for interactivity? Just reducing to online content?
Nope, the first step was the way to library to find different books with interactive design. Following books were found:

Desiging Interactions, by Bill Moggridge
Bill Moggridge, designer of the first laptop computer and a founder of the design firm IDEO, tells us stories (in the form of interviews) from an industry insider’s viewpoint, tracing the evolution of ideas from inspiration to outcome.




Designing for Interaction: Creating Smart Applications and Clever Devices, by Dan Saffer
Saffer gives an overview of the history, current practice, and the future of the rapidly evolving discipline of interaction design.




Designing Interfaces, by Jenifer Tidwell
Designing Interfaces captures interaction design best practices as design patterns: solutions to common design problems, tailored to the situation at hand with a variety of examples.


The mind map was the result of this first stage of research:

Brief 2 | 6 main steps

Personally, I want to concentrate on these six key facts and my timeplan:

1. Design research
2. Research analysis and concept generation
3. Alternative design and evaluation
4. Prototyping and usability testing
5. Implementation
6. System testing

Brief 2 | Interactivity

so what is in-ter-ac-ti-vi-ty?

...in the fields of information science, communication, and industrial design, there is debate over the meaning of Interactivity. In the "contingency view" of interactivity, there are three levels: Noninteractive, when a message is not related to previous messages; Reactive, when a message is related only to one immediately previous message; and Interactive, when a message is related to a number of previous messages and to the relationship between them.

Adjective
interactive (comparative more interactive, superlative most interactive)

Positive: interactive
Comparative: more interactive
Superlative: most interactive

1. Acting with each other.
Two interactive systems.

2. (computer science) Responding to the user.
Interactive user interface


interaction (plural interactions)
1. the act of some things interacting, or acting upon one another.
Be aware of interactions between different medications.
2. A conversation or exchange between people.
I enjoyed the interaction with a bunch of like-minded people.

interactivity (uncountable)
1. The quality of being interactive

Brief 2 | Timeplan

One of the first things planned was a gantt chart and with aim to follow it as close as possible.

Damian Lectures 20.10. | D&AD briefs out

do...review...learn...apply --> TOOL
thoughtprocess...rethink...relevance
what...why...where...when...how
active learning...adding VALUE
evaluate...cross comfort zone
interactive design...exhibitions --> TATE
design theory
branding: who are you?

http://sa09.dandad.org/studentawards09

Brief 2 | Screen

To create an 'interactive' website design that:

1. recognisable identiyy & brand experience
2. defines a philosophy, rationale and methods of working
3. explores how key theoretical, socio/cultural, political, industrial contexts and their developments impact
4. bkgrd documentation of research that explores a variety of comtemporary screen based portfolio styles and influences