Planning Prototypes

Sorry about this post being late (as explained here), buuuut, here it is!

STEP 1: Point of View

If there's anything I've learned from working at Walt Disney World, there should be a reason to celebrate today, whether it's actually your birthday, unbirthday (thank you Mad Hatter), anniversary, or you're spending time with family. But why not see what actually happened in history, backing up your facts on why we should celebrate today or any other day of the year?

Or you can just find out what happened today (or any other day) in history because you never know when you'll be on Jeopardy or some random buy tries to mug you on the street and the only way you can escape is answering what celebrity's birthday is today? (Highly unlikely, but plausible.) 

STEP 2: Storyboard

Scenario #1: Nothing to celebrate with cake.

(Whoops, forgot to make the word bubble for the second to the last panel. Got too excited and jumped the gun into drawing the party, hahaha.)

Scenario #2: Use of most likely useless information as a distraction.

STEP 3: Prototypes

I chose to prototype the fact app since I was pretty familiar with the layout.

(Whoa, what? I actually have index cards this time and not ripped paper?!)

So, I added more buttons to the fact screens than my previous prototype of this app. Um, ignore the button colors for the first version. I accidentally grabbed the wrong Sharpie when creating the second row and I just went with it. The final versions of the colors will most likely be different. I added more sharing platforms to the share page. Another big thing is that I made an error screen for when an invalid date would be entered, like February 30th.

The "big" difference between the two prototype versions is just the button organization. *throws confetti and steals Alan Rickman's cake for such an accomplishment*

STEP 4: Youtube

About 6 minutes of babble time.

RAGING LION

So, as you noticed, I haven't posted Week 4's assignment because my computer has decided to be a butt -- excuse my lack of better word.

I'm currently taking MULT 3910 Advance Motion Graphics, which means I need After Effects. It's a program I've never used before until this class and the professor has be recommending me to try the video tutorials.

Sooooo, I went home and tried to download the trial of Adobe Creative Suite 6 Master Edition off of the Adobe site. After two hours of having to download the Adobe Installer, I tried install the programs I needed like Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, Flash, and After Effects. 2% into the download, it gives me an error. TO GOOGLE I WENT!

I found out that CS6 doesn't support Snow Leopard OSX 10.4-whatever I had... And unfortunately I need it, at least closer to my fingertips at home instead of squatting at the Downtown Campus computer lab for hours to work on my projects...

I'm pretty sure I stated how much I loathe Mountain Lion in a previous Skype interact, but I basically put on my big girl pants and shelled out $20 for the update so I could get a free trial of these darn programs. (And I figured I can download that iPhone OS simulator from a previous assignment.)

SO. DOWNLOAD IT I DID -- This was on Thursday night.
And immediately hated it. Tried to change as many settings as I could back to what I was familiar with in Snow Leopard before trying to redownload anything.

After I could get as comfortable as I could with the deadline of my project quickly approaching, I attempted to download CS6 again. But, guess what? After 2% I get the same error.

Maaaan, was I ticked off. I didn't even want to use my computer anymore.

Immediately I wanted to go back to Snow Leopard. I googled how to downgrade, which involves backing up EVERYTHING, which I don't have the time for, not to mention I don't have all the discs for progams anymore INCLUDING Snow Leopard since my parents cleaned my room while I was in Florida.

It was time for school on Friday, where I spent about 4 hours in the lab trying to figure out After Effects by myself and get 10 second video done. I was mentally drained from being stressed out over all of that.

Soooo, I took the weekend to mentally repair myself. I didn't even touch my computer all that weekend and any facebook update was made via phone.

I'm still trying to get used to this dumb system and I'm still finding things that shouldn't have been omitted for Mountain Lion (like battery time, command+alt+control+8 for inverted colors - it helps with the battery, the different finger swipes for revealing things, keyboard shortcuts, etc. etc.). I think the only thing I like about it is the new way to use Spaces.

I'll get it done. It'll be my next blog post.