#project 32

"David is from the most recent batch of projects, and being the thirty-second one, he is our newest daydreamer. I have yet to learn more from him, but I am aware of his timid nature and uncertainty around the others thus far. I do believe his potential will show itself to us in time." - The Mistress

Cuz we need you to the BFDI Fan Movie!

Journey Of Dream Island, aka JODI, its a fanmovie made for fans and by fans. A loveletter for the first object show of history, and a tribute for two other shows: Bonus Stage and 31 Minutes. The last one, specificly the movie, whas a huge inspiration for the fan movie.

In 2024, the sequel of the 31 Minutes movie got anounced, and Bonus Stage 90 will release. So, we decided tp start a campain called...

PROYECT 32!

P.32 its a campain to gather more people to the develop of the movie.

All we need is:

10 mods*¹

20 storyboarders

30/20 animators*²

10 advertisers (optional)

Any amount of voice actors

*1)

To be a mod you must:

Be 13+ (mainly 14 to above)

Be responsable

Be always vigilating the server

Optional requisits are:

Being a mod of another server

Being owner of another server

*2)

We need mainly animators that can replicate the BFDI-IDFB style for the objects (body assets must be from BFB/TPOT) and the post split BFB-TPOT artstyle for algebraliens

If we manage to fullfill the campain, im going to do a comic about before the events of the fan movie (yeah i know a stupid reward)

Share this post with everyone to make this come true!

Damn right it was deserved, Tormen. You Force-Choked Mako. This was always how it was going to go.

Xadya does not care about politics. But she’s starting to care about tyrannical practices, and is accepting that she’s played a role in that. She’s always exercised restraint (being LS) but now she’s starting to think about her actions in a new light. (No, she would not be defecting to the Republic. But she does support the independence of the Mandolorians. Which is a real thing according to the novels, by the way.)

Calling Xadya a ‘tool’, huh? Not doing yourself any favors. 

It didn’t work for the Sith Empire. It didn’t work for the Republic when Saresh was in charge. And it didn’t work for the Eternal Empire. 

I like this response. Its multi-faceted.  First - Xadya knows Tormen bitterly disapproves of the idea of peace. (Its all in the Sith Code.) Second - its Xadya saying ‘I don’t need to shoot you again - you’re finished.’  Third - its Xadya emotionally putting this thing behind her. You can forgive an enemy after you’ve destroyed them. It keeps the anger from eating away at you. Fourth - Hey, check out Skadge’s reaction!!!  A rare “greatly disapproves” - TOTAL BONUS!

Jake Nolan and I decided to team up for this project. We grew up together in a small town in Indiana. I can speak for myself and say that I always romanticized the thought of leaving and escaping the corn fields. But now that I’m a bit older and have  lived in a couple of different states, I have a strong pride in where I am from.

For this (re)design, we decided to focus on redesigning the experience of visitindiana.com and visitindy.com. Although we have interaction gifs, we truly wanted to focus on creating a novel user-experience that is both fun and compelling.

Problems

The problems we have with the current order of things on visitindiana.com and visitindy.com are:

The pages don’t have a narrative

The pages overwhelm with content

The packaging of the two sites are totally different - visitindiana.com is clearly focused on an older audience that a wholesome, relaxing long-weekend; while visitindy.com has an energetic color scheme and highlights breweries and racing which sounds good to someone my age (in their mid-20s).

And as a final note, the experience overall just isn’t that compelling or special for either site.

Solutions

As part of the solution for this (re)design, we wanted to create a novel experience around how to discover a city/state/etc. and what it has to offer. When you first land on visitindiana.com, you are confronted with this prompt, “[Sometime] I’m looking forward to [activity]. This statement prompts the user to pick time frame and activity type to give them the my personalized result possible. In the case of the example, the user wanted to spend their weekend hiking. Because of this input, the background image, weather forecast, and CTA all reference Ft. Harrison State Park - the perfect place for some weekend hiking.

But say that the user isn’t quite sure what they want to do or when they want to do it, then if they scroll below the main statement, there’s a section asking, “At a Loss?”. This section has several scrubbers that allow the user to push and pull between different extremes to define their ideal trip. The user’s decisive placement of the scrubbers dictate the result, which will display the most compatible answer and then showcase a few related options.

State Page

Main Prompt - Selection State

Once the user has started to focus their search a bit, they might visit a city-specific page, such as visitindy.com. Once on the city page, the user is no longer confronted with a prompt because knowing the place they want explore is half of the battle. Now, they are given a carousel of events happening around town. Or, similar to the statewide page, the user can take advantage of the scrubbers below the main section to refine their search for the perfect activity happing in that city.

City Page

Expanded Primary Navigation

Style Guide

Jake and I thought it was silly for a state and its cities/regions to have disjointed tourism portals, branding, and altogether experiences. When you think of a vacation destination, Indiana is probably the last state on your mind, so it needs all the help it can get.

We decided to use a single style guide throughout all the state/city pages. The color scheme comes from the Indiana state flag and the type choices were meant to be interpreted as both traditional, but also on-trend to appeal to audiences both young and old. The charismatic  iconography (which we did not design, but graciously borrowed from The Noun Project) can also be seen in two lights - simple, clear and fun, light-hearted. Between the color, type, and icons, these design elements reinforce the idea of form meeting function and this site being extremely functional, but also really fun to look at and interact with.

We hope y’all enjoyed reading and thanks for your time!

Playstation 4 UI Redesign + VR concept

Project 32: (Re)design an experience

Hey guys! For this project I went and took an experience that I use daily, my PS4. I did a redesign for the main home screen, and played around with concepts for VR with my friend Caro.

The initial issue I had with the PS4′s current interface was that it seemed very restricting, especially considering the controller that was being used. The Dual Shock 4 has the ability to go and use analog control, along with a touch screen and the current UI, XMB only allows for four way movement.

I use the building blocks of how existing tiles are formed in both the Playstation Store and existing interface, and made a system that allowed for an asymmetrical grid. The thought being that this new grid was smart, and would evolve over time towards what apps and games you used the most. From a marketing standpoint, this could also potentially used to push new releases and have certain content take center stage.

From here, I realized the potential of this bigger grid for VR navigation, and with Caro we formed a basic flow of how these menus would be handled in VR. It’s still very high level, but the basic concept we had was that instead of having content hidden behind menus, you could use your full range of head movement and vision to delegate content to secondary areas.  

In our example walkthrough, you can see that the user has made it so that if you move your head to the left, you will find your profile. To the right is your social grid and the top is your settings. In terms of experimentation and UX, we feel like over time this interaction could become valuable as more content gets hidden under hamburger menus and drop downs.

When given the prompt to redesign an experience, I wanted the experience to be something that I use on the daily regardless of it’s aesthetic, not because of it. I more-or-less immediately thought... 

I, as well as hundreds of thousands of people all over the globe use Reddit daily, but it has to be one of the most unattractive websites out there. That said, it’s incredibly well done in that it communicates information quickly and effectively to thousands of people a second. Then entire system is incredibly simple and that is why it works so well. In my redesign, I wanted to give Reddit a little bit of a facelift. Keep it clean and simple, like it is now, but add in some fun and unique functionality and aesthetics.

Reddit Front Page: 

All default subreddits have both an icon and a corresponding color. These elements can be used for anything from the default image for image-less posts to the header image for the respective subreddit as well as the subreddit’s primary color source. There are close to 50 default subreddits, this is just a sample.

Access your account information or contributing actions from a simple dropdown menu.

Sliding wayfinding in the primary menu system. 

Access all of the default subreddits as well as your subscribed subreddits and any subreddits you may be a moderator of in this hidden menu.

Simple up/downvote mechanism. 

Reddit Comment Thread:

Instead of the usual sidebar of rules and information cluttering up the space, I chose to “hide” the information using a sliding sidebar. The sidebar contains information about the post, subreddit, and rules.

Thank for watching! 

Project 32: (Re)design an Experience

For this project, I took it upon myself to redesign the core interface and interaction experience of the Sling TV mobile app. As a fan of cord-cutting, I love the product offering of Sling but the moment I got past their website and into their mobile and desktop apps, I saw immediately that their app design could use some love.

Their current design is trying to do too much at once and consequently fails to do some core tasks well. First, I addressed the oversized UI elements. For a service that is all about fullscreen TV media, their chrome covers a large percentage of the screen. 

Next I addressed their treatment of iconography and text. The size of both of these elements were extremely oversized, wasting more space and causing more confusion. Additionally, a quirk of Sling is that some channels allow you to pause/rewind and others do not. The current disabled icon treatment has them at half opacity, but that’s inconsistent with all the still functional icons in the header which share the same visual treatment. Which can you tap, which can’t you tap? This creates inconsistencies and confusion that lead to user frustration.

Finally, the main interaction that was most challenging for me as a user was the browsing experience of the Guide. On my iPhone 6, the elements were so large that I couldn’t see both the on demand “watch now” section along with the scheduled shows and scrolling was a challenge. I didn’t rework this screen completely, but I did simplify the expansion transition and make the hierarchy of information much more clear.

Lastly, I broke the Search function which permeated every header in this app into it’s own sidebar navigation destination. I’d be curious to see the data Sling has about the search usage. Is it really relevant to every page, or would a dedicated and easily accessible Search page be more useful? I took a guess and said no in an effort to keep primary actions on all other screens more obvious.

Hope y’all like it!

Project 32: 2nd Morning Run

(Photo Credit: Sgt. Cesar B. Cuenca, Philippine Army)

It’s my second morning run today. Sadly, I had to skip running for two weeks because of non-stop rain.

It’s been a month now since I quit the gym because it’s too expensive and I’m saving for something so I had to get in shape in the cheapest possible way I know – outdoor running. 

Watching the sun slowly rising today brings back a lot of memories during my childhood.  

When I was little girl, I would often stare out of the window or sit in front of our porch while waiting for my playmates, watching other kids play, or waiting for my mom to arrive from work.

The main door of our house is facing the west so I can’t help but notice the sun setting every day and it always leave me a feeling of sadness and shivers down my spine.

While most people love watching the sunset because they say it’s more romantic and relaxing, it scares the hell out of me.

One good guy friend once told me maybe I could learn to appreciate the sunset if I’m already with a guy (boyfriend) because someone would be holding my hand then to assure me that nothing, no one will ever hurt me.

I hope that moment comes. But for now, I’m still not a fan of it.

Sunset, when I was a little girl, meant school or play is over, darkness, horror stories, and nightmares, which I often get when I overslept in the afternoon.

That is why I don’t take afternoon naps. I hate the feeling of waking up and the place is so quiet. It’s like the end of the world and the people are nowhere to be found.

So in high school, whenever I see the sun shining mightily up in the sky from the window of our classroom, which was located at the 4th floor, I always feel the excitement and thrill.

The sight of the sun peeking through the clouds, especially during my early morning run never fails to take my breath away. It is a sight to behold, always a spectacular event for me.