Alright, so while reading a lot of the other blogs, apparently we were suppose to post about our final design ideas. So, here is mine…
My design idea is nothing new. I will be continuing a site that I started in my User Centered Design class last quarter. The site is for a gaming community called VG Corps. They are a community of gamers that play/pilot the Firestorm, Battletech, and Red Planet games in the old Vitrual World pods. Some of you may remember them. Before my UCD class, I didn’t have much knowledge of this community. I knew about the games because I use to play in the them at a gaming center that use to be located just across the street from the Art Institute, but somehow I managed to totally miss the community aspect of it all. Which, by the way, is my design problem.
I would love to know how to take my previous design elements and really place them within my page effectively. The problem would be how to build a stronger community for the user within the site. With that, I believe it is within this, that I would really like to know how to build a forum and how to allow a user to build personal profiles (like MySpace or Facebook) for/within the site so that the user has their own identity within the online community of VG Corps.
So there it is. Now, I’m going to bed.
