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“Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance.”

The deadline of the project is nearing in only a few days! Everyone is getting excited for the final reveal. Because of the holidays we haven't updated too much but in the next few days we'll be having the last home strech to get everything perfect for the...

Final Presentation

For the final presentation we'll be having 2 of our best speakers, Andrea and Viona (hehe). For this we'll be taking some inspiration from the first pitch but also put some new twists on it!

“No one who achieves success does so without acknowledging the help of others.”

Working together and helping eachother is the most crucial part in a group and when you're working in a team. What one person lacks another can help them with. As we started working more on the coding part of the project, this was held heavily.

Coding

This month we really have made some progress on the coding of the website. Because we made our design quite extensive the coding was a bit more difficult for some of us. During this we helped eachother on discord and on location with this. The pages that are done are:

Homepage

Landing page

Profile page

Premium page

Login & Signup page

For the Login and Singup we also used PHP and mySQL to let users log in and keep their account. We did this with a database. We also made sessions so that when a user logs in and refreshes the page they don't get logged out immediately.

Plans for December

"Every project has challenges, and every project has its rewards."

For me reaching getting faced by a challenge is not something bad, but instead an opportunity to learn being put in front of us. So when we found out we needed to create a fully working and flow prototype, multiple pages and also test it mutliple times in a few days, We were pretty stunned.

Prototypes

When we made the first prototype, we were focusing more on the workflow of the website to make sure the layout is comprehensible for our users instead of the design itself. Our talented UX designer, Andrea made the fully working website prototype. Which can be found here. With this we we're going to test our concept and website flow. This prototype can be found here.

After the first prototype we still didn't have a fully realized design yet for our website. For this we sent our best designers, Nikita and Viona into the field. We're currently still working on this renewed design of the website and the mockups, but it is turning out to look very promisable.

Pitch

For this sprint we had to make the final pitch, of course this was very nerve wrecking at first but this is why we worked so hard on it! For this pitch we wanted to make sure the audience would be captivated and also persuaded to use our product. This is why we proof of concept in the form of plushies, clothing and snacks!

The full pitch held for Liquid plus can be found here.

Plans for November

For the next month in november, we are starting to make the base code for the website. For this we sat down to divide and define the task to put into our Minerva Design trello for Crunchyroll Beyond.

In November we will also be continuing and finishing the new Design for what Crunchyroll Beyond will look like.

Minerva Design will also be working on the Visual Novel, which is an important part of our website. The Visual Novel will be made in two parts, one will be about the base 'game' and the other part will be about the Script and flow of the Dialogue.

I hope you guys are just as excited for the development of Crunchyroll Beyond as we are at Minerva Design! Thanks for dropping by!

Must have

Signup process

Collect points

Redeem merchandise

User firendly website, fast website and an outstanding design

Sharing achievements in diffrent platforms

Anime of the month

Suitbale for all ages

Readable text

Strong brand identity

Premium subscription

Quests

Should have

Anime Crunchyroll Mascot

Convention&event information

Sponsored anime advertisement

Editable account details

Connect with social media

Animated character

Could have

Mobile version

Challenge friends

Profile sharing

Animation rating and reviews

Anime news

Won't have

Chatbot

Lottery for points and gifts

I’ve already designed the landing and the perks part of the page, but still need to make the premium prices & options part of the page. We will be doing that in this post.

The first thing I do is see what kind of content needs to be displayed. So for this we’re looking at Crunchyroll’s premium page to see what kind of subscriptions they offer. This way I know what I need to work with from the start so that I don’t have to add/change things later in the process.

So first thing I notice is the different icons, they all have 14 days of free trial and different names. I will have to include these as well. There are two subscriptions from which you can choose, from which one has a one month version or a 12 month version. This could be turned in either 2 blocks or keep it at three. Let’s add the blocks to our figma page right now.

I’ve added a short explanation using the fonts of our brand guide.

For now we're working on just one of the panels, as they resemble eachother apart from some text. So first I add text and a background colour. For this I wanted to compliment the dark background with a bright orange/yellow colour. This is to keep on brand with our brand guide.

Now that we have it looking like this. I go to look for design inspiration. I do this by trial and error and looking online. Here are some examples I found for good Premium subscription designs!

Now I'm going to make the rest of the block. Usually I stress over minor details in this xD. Here I am making a button to see what would fit best. Here are all the designs I tried before coming to the last one(the final button.)

I wanted the button to pop out between all the other yellow elements on the page so desided to add some of Crunchyroll's iconic blue into the design.

Let's get back to the full block. To add a crunchyroll 'twitst' on the premium choices I aded Hime-chan in various different anime art styles. Signifying the different premium levels. Now all that is left is aligning and making the other two panels and we're done! The full design of the premium page can be found here.

Thank you for joining the design process of Minerva Media

For this we asked in our survey to the Crunchyroll fans and see what kind of things they would like to see. We wrote them down and made a list of the rewards for Crunchyroll Beyond:

Discounts for merchandise on the Crunchyroll Store

In game items (games owned by Crunchyroll)

A box of goodies from Japan (snacks)

T-shirts signed by Japanese Actors

VIP pass at the Crunchyroll Expo

Keychains with anime characters

Free ticket raffle after experiences

Trip to tokyo

Get yourself as anime art