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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 Team Leader: Dan Wasyluk Jeff Lin Bryan Miller Gerald Nolan Design Team Leader :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
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