interface ideas
Posted by Chris | Filed under Uncategorized
I met with a few of the people at Sedso Design tonight to go over a proposal for turning a printed piece that they had designed into an interactive website for a client who was a contestant on iron chef and owns a few restaurants. While I was there, I showed them the current incarnation of InteractMix with the new control scheme as well as each scenario screen. We discussed and sketched out a few ideas to keep each screen consistant, and figured that it would work well as one large space with the introduction in one area, and then pan and rotate into another part of the same background to present the next set of controls. They had suggested doing the same with the remixing screen, and I explained that each remix screen would be based around the album artwork. The idea we ended up agreeing on is to reduce the amount of information on the song selection screen by having one song presented at a time, with navigation to browse through the other songs, which works better if more than 5 songs get added, in how the song selection screen wouldn’t have to be modified to fit additional songs. From the song selection, the screen would zoom into the album artwork with the remixing controls appearing. after the remix is done, it would zoom back out to the full background of all the screens, then rotate to another area where the user would start placing objects in their music video. This also frees up areas that were originally going to take you from screen to screen and does so in a way that allows the user to know where they are at in the process without specifically telling them so with text. I’m planning on posting more screen shots soon after trying this idea out, so hopefully it makes more sense then.