Week 12

It’s been a busy week before the ETC closes for the Thanksgiving break because immediately after the break we have Softs Opening. Softs Opening is like the beta release of a software product, and after this point you’re only expected to polish your product and not add any features. We faced a challenge with the fact that we won’t have a lot of time leading up to softs to work on it, so we wanted to meet our targets before we left for the holidays.

Our next target was to design the Roberto Clemente discovery page and other content. We came up with the idea of having the fun facts portrayed through cards, those typical baseball cards of old on which Clemente’s face was often found. These cards could be released by ripping open a pack of cards from the discovery page. A sample of the concept is shown below.

And again, since sections other than the discovery page are built in a modular design, the structure of Pittsburgh Connection and Media Gallery for Roberto Clemente are similar with the ones for Rachel Carson and Andy Warhol. We kept the total number of facts and connections similar, so that we don’t look like we are emphasizing one individual but not another.