Interface changes… again
Posted by Chris | Filed under Uncategorized
So I have my project working and its been quite fun playing around on it and seeing how people are interacting with it. After today’s presentation, I met up with a Graphic Designer from Sedso Design (who was going to be my guest for today’s last minute presentation), and we came up with a few more ideas for the remix portion interface. I’m planning on sticking with the button concept and am going to include the album artwork and band info at the bottom of the remix screen, and also move the “Choose a different song” / back button to be located with the album artwork, while pushing the “Create Visuals” button over to the left. The remix buttons themselves are going to have a rollover state that will trigger the sounds, but will now shut off if you hover over another instance of the guitar track if you were already hearing it (so that the 2 sounds don’t overlap). If you rollover the vocal button, the guitar you were already on will continue to play so that you can still hear what the 2 would sound like together. I’m interested in hearing whether people would like that (it is fun to play around with that way), or if I should just have all sounds stop when hovering over any different track. I’m going to change the look of the buttons, and might include silhouettes of a guitar, microphone, bass, drum set, and piano keys rather than the current square buttons. For the song selection screen, I have the code mentally figured out for how to transition between selecting the different songs and how to trigger it to jump to that bands’ remix and visualizer screen (its actually quite simpler and easier to implement then the original idea I was thinking about doing). I was thinking of instead of having a “Preview song” button grouped with the website links, is that the song that is currently selected would fade in and out when going through the different tracks (one less click for the user). There’s a bunch of work left for me to do, but I have most of it figured out and all it takes is the time to do the coding. Can’t wait to have a final version to show everyone!