I have chosen to make this presentation in Flash as I wanted something different. Not just another screencast. Instead of a voice-over I have added music to emphasize the image and expression. The video gives an overview of my process and layout. I was inspired by this music video.
(This video was working before the one.com server troubles. If you do not see the video here, please watch it in Flash Player from the documentation disc. The file is called blog_pres01.swf , or you can download it here)
Sometimes you can get stuck in the process of creating something, but fortunately there are different tools you can use to generate new ideas. We tried out one of these tools some days ago in class.
The three words on the left are words I picked, because I think they describe me. (patient, music interested, creative).
The words on the top row are words describing the way I want my blog to come out. (different, logical, graphical).
The pictures on the right were random pictures I found in a news paper.
The words in the bottom row are random words one of my fellow students found for me. (Copenhagen, obvious, accentuated)
The idea is to put words in the fields in the middle, that comes to your mind when you combine four things (three words and one image). Example: By combining the words creative, obvious and logical with the picture of the old lady with the hat, the words intuitive and user friendliness came to my mind. The new words I come up with are then going to help me in the further process.
This is a wireframe showing my home page. As you can see, it is very simple. Widget 1 is the categories, widget 2 is the archive, and widget 3 is my tag cloud.
I just messed everything up trying to change my URL. Things seem to be back to normal now after I had to start over and install everything again. The changelog is missing, but I will fix that as soon as possible. I guess this is what they call learning from your mistakes…
Chindogu is about inventing stuff that can’t really be used for anything even though it has an actual purpose. Today we have made our own examples of Chindogus in the Design Lab.
We started off by brain storming for a couple of hours about problems in our everday life. Problems such as rainy weather, angry bus drivers, and pizza crust came to our minds, but we ended up working with a problem that almost everyone can relate to: Morning hair. We have all tried getting out of bed in the morning, looking in the mirror, and then realizing something looks very wrong – and not even the hair brush can save you.
