The following notes/passages/excerpts are from the book (pgs. 339-342) The Art of Interactive Design: A Euphonious and Illuminating Guide to Building Successful Software by Chris Crawford. eISBN: 9781593270193 pISBN: 9781886411845 My notes are marked in red and italicized. The rest…
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Interactive Stories – What’s wrong or what can be improved?
Upon my search for what could be wrong or what can be improved for interactive stories I am finding the following commonalities amongst the patents and claims: Stories The story line is boring if kept linear. Adding the ability to…
Discovering Problems to Solve
In my quest to find a design problem to solve I found some articles that will help me find the problems often ignored in interactive stories. I know that some of these are academic but it is good to remind…
Giving Back…
Since I am technically back to square one with my thesis I am working through this step to find out how it will give back to the design community while still being unique. The voice application and framework idea have…
Artist and technical influences
A little recap from Studio I for the artist and technical influences: The artistic influences of my work could be considered varied and somewhat scattered but if one were to take another look they would see features that they all…
Outline, Bibliographies and Low Fidelity Prototype
Since I have taken a new direction for my thesis the outline, bibliographies and prototype have been pushed back. Though I am gathering lots of new bibliographies for my research. My new thesis direction will be in relation to interactive…
Why so many frameworks?
There are a lot of frameworks out there… a lot! Which begs the question of why are there so many frameworks out there? There are many that seem to be just copies of each other with minor tweaks so why…
Logo
Came up with a logo for my thesis site. The thought of gears comes to mind when the word frameworks is mentioned. Hence the reason why I used gears in the logo.
Final Timeline
Updated the timeline to reflect the setback due to the change in my thesis direction. The timeline also shows the two quarters in between this class and the final thesis class depending on if I pass the 45hr review.
ITGM765 – Thesis Milestone / Timeline Rough Draft & Thesis Statement and Abstract
Rough draft of thesis task timeline As mentioned from my blog post here on blackboard is that I took the winter quarter to re-think my thesis and decided to drop the voice-controlled web building app to pursue something that…