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!