Objective

• To create a highly interactive, visually stimulating, user content driven, social networking website for New Media Alumni of the Rochester Institute of Technology. To provide a centralized meeting ground and communication portal to share work and inspirations, as well as a place to catch up with other alumni.

Target Audience• males and females

• age: twenty to thirty years

• Alumni of the Rochester Institute of Technology New Media Program

- Design

- Interactive Development

-Publishing

The Team

Development TeamLeader: Dan Wasyluk

Jeff Lin

Bryan Miller

Gerald Nolan

Design TeamLeader :Tim Maiura

Kellen Cooper

Eric Decker

Adam Luptak

Graeme Reed

Resources

• Basecamp Project Management Tool• Adobe Creative Suite 3• RIT Lab Computers• College of Imaging Arts and Sciences• B.Thomas Golisano College of Computing and

Information Sciences • MacGregors

Site Outline

• Landing Page (Browse users, projects, and links) – Featured work and projects at the top – Latest Users and Latest Submissions underneath the featured

section – Sign up link – Login field – Terms of Agreement link – FAQ / Help link

• Realtime stack of users, projects, or links – Switch from browsing users to projects to links all using

consistent view – Live update search field – Use of transitions to enhance user experience

Site Outline

• Profile Page - Full-bleed avatar to represent user style – Smaller optional user photograph – Display name, profile, current status updates – Quick browser to quickly and easily locate user content – Visualizer window of projects and inspiration links

• “Jump Menu” to hide or show visualizations in order to preserve processing power as some may be processor intensive

– Recently asked questions – Graphic to represent how much a user is participating in the

community• Live Post Board

– Collective of asked questions and responses – Visualized in an interesting way to enhance user experience

Site Outline

• Edit Account – Edit fields – Upload avatar / cropping tool

• Sign up form – Name, grad year, email info

• Terms of Agreement – Legal agreement

• FAQ / Help – User’s manual

• Footers – Terms of Agreement link - FAQ link - Send to a Friend

• Administration System – Allows administrators to approve/deny accounts – Maintains exclusivity of community

Wireframes

Technology List

• Adobe Flash

• Adobe Flash Communication Server 2.0

• PHP

• MYSQL

• Papervision

Deliverables

The final product will be a social networking website aimed towards New MediaAlumni who have graduated from RIT. The website should be navigated througheasily, and should promote return visits.

-Interactive visualizations-Messaging system-Login and registration system-Chat and Q/A-Job Posting system

Schedule• Winter 2007/2008 • Week 1 - Team selection and skill assessment • Week 2 - Book Report, Research Project, Preliminary design work • Week 3 - Design Doc Rough, Research and Book Report • Week 4 - Design Doc, Wireframes • Week 5 - Client Presentation Round 1 • Week 6 - Design and Visualization Comps • Week 7 - Continue progressing comps • Week 8 - Finalize Comps • Week 9 - Prepare Final Client • Week 10 - Client Presentation Round 2

Success Factors

• punctuality with deadlines

• consistency in design

• intuitive content management system

• engaging visualizations

• self-sustained visualizations

• Traffic monitored by Google Analytics

Thanks!