Project 2: Interactive Timeline Project

Description:

Working in groups of two, research, design and develop an interactive timeline project documenting the history and evolution of one of the following topics: Moving Image, Telecommunications, or Computers. Overall project should serve as an engaging, informational resource that introduces a concise history of media and technology developments throughout time.

Objectives:

+ Apply information and interface design fundamentals and principles to aide in creative problem solving

+ Collaborate effectively with group members throught conceptual, design and development phases

+ Use industry standard web authoring tools

Specifications:

+ Design layout should meet usability standards and current web design/development best practices

+ All artwork must respect copyright laws. Be sure to use MLA image citation for photographs covered under fair use policies

+ All web pages are to be generated with Dreamweaver and/or a text editing application.

+ Scripting languages to be used: HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.

+ If using other programmer’s code, please cite author and source.

+ Project should be compliant in desktop, laptop and mobile devices and browser compliant in Safari, IE and Firefox

Deadlines:

Concept Phase: Project Proposal, Wireframes, Flowchart due Thursday March 21, 8:30am

Design Concept Phase: PDF of Moodboard due Tuesday, March 26, 8:30am

Layout Design Phase: PDF of final design specs due Tuesday, April 9, 8:30am

Usability Testing: Week 16, Conduct usability surveys to target audience during April 28-May 4

Grading criteria (20% course grade):

Design Aesthetics —40% of project 2

Technical Skill—30% of project 2

Usability—20% of project 2

Process (Flowchart, Wireframe, Sketches, Mood Board, Usability Testing)—10% of project 2

Topic Research Research Starting points
Moving image (cinema, television, animation, documentaries/news reporting, video, zoetrope, Eadweard Muybridge, Georges Méliès, video art)

Telecommunications (telegraph, telephone, radio, image telegraphy, phototelegraphy, telefax, mobile technology, multimedia)

Computers (abacus, digital vs analog, electric telegraph, charles babbage, Memex, Bell Labs, ARPANET, Tim Berners Lee, Internet, World Wide Web)