Wednesday, April 15, 2009

NYC Field Trip, 4/14/09

Large Animal
AIGA National Design Center
MakerBot
Studio 5-in-1

Thursday, April 9, 2009

Revised Navigation

Revised Homepage, below.


Upon selecting "Print" (or Websites or Motion) from Homepage, user is immediately greeted with a project. Cascading Project navs (left) ActionScript functionality needs to be addressed.

Tuesday, April 7, 2009

Flash Homepage

Started putting the Home/Welcome page together in Flash... working buttons etc. Screen capture below.

Saturday, April 4, 2009

Let's Try This Again (again)

"Home" (or "Welcome") page allows the user to get to the Portfolio (immediately upon opening the site) by selecting a specific thumbnail (right) directing user to a specific section of the Portfolio. Or they may click "Bio", "Resume" or "Contact" to access those pages (not shown) skipping Portfolio entirely.


After selecting a thumbnail (in this case "Print") from the Welcome page, user is directed to the entire Print section. The first project (in this case, "Nutrition Newsletter") opens the section. Other Print projects are selectable from the menu at left. Navigate through Nutrition Newsletter by means of two thumbnails at bottom, left.


Navigating back to Portfolio (by means of nav, top), first image user sees is the "Nutrition Newsletter" (with "HOW Magazine", "Menu" and "Admit One" sub navs automatically dropping down upon arrival at this page.) If the user wishes to view projects other than Print, they'll have to select "Websites" or "Motion" (similar to Print, sub navs under "Websites" or "Motion" will automatically drop down inviting user to narrow down his/her choices to specific projects contained in those sections... if they don't want to look at the first project featured, they'll move onto other projects contained in those sections.)

I could revert to a "Welcome" page layout here to facilitate navigation through the Portfolio (thumbnail/navs on right) but that would leave me with an empty area in the middle of the page, where "Welcome" copy used to be... thus the need to have a project (any project) greet the user upon re-arrival in the Portfolio section.