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.
Being a classmate from UCD with you this site is a great idea, it has several problems to overcome which you seemed to do well with your layout in illustrator. i would love to see it in actual code, it can be much more functional and fun to code.
Here is that site i mentioned in class today.
Its actually not as bad as it was last time I checked the site, over a year ago, still it seems to have the basic idea of what your looking for.
FFXI Allakhazam
I agree. i think this is a good idea and would like to see what you can do with it. I find that on some of these sites there is just far too much information to take in until you are into the groove of the site, and I get confused and lost. I would propose that you add a welcome page or a page that will help new visitors navigate and feel comfortable. The first time I went to world of warcraft’s site I got a bit lost. See what I mean
oh here’s a link..if I get it to work…
wow