Archive for the ‘ Interactivity ’ Category
Colour blindness is not something I can honestly say is something I have ever taken into account when designing something. This is probably due to the fact I am not in any way colour blind my self. Until now that is; I came across this very insightful post from a user over at Blogspot, and it gave [ READ MORE ]
I am happy to say I received a high mark for this project as it was handed on time the other week. I thought I would make this post showing an extended video of the final design as I thought my initial one was a bit short. I have tweaked it a bit to show [ READ MORE ]
It was a great to be able to start and finish this module solely focusing around one initial idea. Working from the original documents I had made, using them as reference I was able to look at how the interface has advanced over the years. It was great to do this project on a topic [ READ MORE ]
One of the main features of the entire Xbox Dashboard and one of the few features which has continued throught all of the UI versions is the Xbox Guide. This feature is one I have working on re-designed allong side the UI but have only just posted about it now. The purpose of the guide [ READ MORE ]
A lot of the final idea can be view in the previous post here all apart fro the guide which I will mention next. I am happy I was able to add a sound drop into the animation. With the whole UI now completed at this stage including the guide I showed my final design to [ READ MORE ]
The idea was to incorporate all my working as renders into flash to make a physical working interface where the user after viewing the animation would be able to simply hover over each orb seeing it light up giving the concept of how it could be actually navigated. For this to work each every combination [ READ MORE ]
So working from the initial concept drwaing one thing I wanted to achieve was kind of ‘ripple’ effect when the user turned on their console for the start up sequence. It seemed optomistic to try and recreate something as nice as shown in my ‘Initial Ideas Post‘ but you can see where the concept idea [ READ MORE ]
Incorporating diferent aspects from my workings and also not including some I have made my final render pass and was able to add audio on top. This is the start up screen for the Xbox UI and the one all users will see. I have chose a theme here which clearly demonstrates how it will [ READ MORE ]
Another idea I built upon which originated from the questionaire was regarding these new Themes and how the Avatar can interact and react with them and the environment. I introduced this small teaser feature for the casual user; by pressing all 4 buttons on the back of the XBox controller (RT, LT, RB and LB) [ READ MORE ]
One thing which has become a big issue with the N.X.E Dashboard and has been expressed in the questionnaire is how Themes have now been ‘butchered’ by the layout of the new design. The above shows a current Theme which is simply a JPEG set to a background, Microsoft have blocked half of this image by the [ READ MORE ]
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