Week 7

It’s been a busy week again for Project City of Stars. We were working on developing the application with one eye on the halves presentation and the midterms due next week. It was crucial that we nail down the design soon as we had to scope out for more celebrities in our list, other than Andy Warhol.

Based on previous iterations and our lo-fi prototypes which were playtested, we had our detailed high fidelity prototypes nailed down for Andy Warhol.  The goal of this interface was to be a fun , engaging and intuitive product and our research and results highlighted the same.

Below is a high level overview of the hi-fi prototype. Feel free to take a minute and zoom in and scan through each of the pages.

Here’s a gif explaining how the dial works:

There are three pages you can scroll and access through the dial. They are:

1. Time Capsule:  Andy Warhol used to collect time capsules where he stored the  most mundane of items. This page highlights several of such items, and it has a secret “interaction” once you clear out the items and find the silver cloud.
2. Pittsburgh Connection: A Timeline Map of Pittsburgh which highlights and describes prominent locations of interest for Andy Warhol fans.
3. Media Gallery: A collection of works of and related to Andy Warhol, which include pictures, videos and external links.

These pages will be modified for other celebrities to accurate represent and present relevant information.

In other news, we had visitors this week as Anthony Daniels (notable British Thespian famous for playing C3PO on the Star Wars franchise) and industry professionals from Activision visited us in our project room and we got a chance to demonstrate our progress so far. They gave us good feedback and encouraged us to chase the fun!

Until next week then…