20/10/11 Lesson

In this lesson I have continued to work on my project in flash.

This lesson I made changes to my buttons, moving them to different positions on the stage because of recommendations from fellow students suggesting it would look better. In addition i have altered the hit on the buttons to make sure that you can only select the button when you are clicking on the button.

This screenshot shows the change i have made regarding the hit section of the button. I have now only made the hit the size of the button, so that the button is only active when the user hovers over it and not arround it. The reason for the change was through a peers observation, and they could select a button even when they werent hovering over it.

Previously I you could selct the button even when you werent hoovering on the button. I also changed the colour when you hoover over the button as it didn't very clear, I therefore changed the colour to a darker and bolder colour.

18/10/11 Usability testing

BBC usability testing of the beat website

Performing a selction of task on the Beta website, i have some feedback regarding the usability of the website.

 

Find out news headlines- In the lower section of the beta homepage the most popular news headlines were displayed making it easy to find the breaking news.

Find out the weather for Southend- All I needed to do was to click on the weather icon in the top right hand corner and then enter the desired location you want the weather for. When entering a location in the search bar, it recognises what you are typing, this saves you having to type the whole location in.

Find out exchange rates-Wasn't clear from the onset as to where I could find the business or financial section from the beta homepage.  

Feedback from my prototype designs

I recieved a range of feedback from Hollie regarding how easy it was to use.

Location the buttons on the homepage was an easy task and Holly was able to acheieve this and understand where the links took her in the system.

Next I asked Hollie to perform a range of tasks by asking her how I could improve the appearance of the video and make it more obvious to the user. Hollie suggested that I should use a play pause navigation arround the video to easily identify that this is a video showing a golf drill. I could also input a magnify icon on the images and video to show the user that this is what happens when you click on the image or video. This will make it much easier for the user to navigate arround my system and will make their experience much more productive.

13/10/11 Lesson

In this lesson I have:

Completed the buttons for my homepage. I had a problem with the hit on the button as I could still hit the button even though I was not on the button. I therefore had to change the button and make sure the hit was only on the button itself. In addition I placed the buttons into the background of the page.

Lesson 11/10/11

In todays lesson i altered my button designs in photoshop, creating new versions to make them interactive.
I also used X and Y values to make sure the position of my buttons were correct and in the right place. In addition i have used colour codes to match the certain backgrounds together so that the colours overlap. This is the code i used

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lesson 06/10/11

Today i am creating the homepage prototype for my project. I have imported a template bacground into flash which will be on every page. I had difficulty with the sizing of the template and had to make alterations to make it fit the flash page. I also produced buttons in photoshop and have tyhen imported them in flash. However i do not like how they look and will change them in due course.

This is my background template for all the pages in the drills guide. I aim to keep the same background to maintain a consistent theme.

Lesson 04/10/11

In todays lesson i made adaptions to my photoshop designs which i have then put into flash. I found that the nvagtion section of the page wasn;t big enough of flsah so i have changed it in photoshop and aim to re import into flash.