Advanced Interactive Design: Final Project

22/10/2024  - 5/12/2024 (Week 8 - Week 13) 

Lim Yu Xuen / 0359676 

Advanced Interactive Design / Bachelors of Design (Hons) in Creative Media / Taylor's University

Task 3: Completed Thematic Interactive Website


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INSTRUCTIONS

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Module Information


TASK 3: COMPLETED THEMATIC INTERACTIVE WEBSITE

Task Requirements
  • students will synthesis the knowledge gained in tasks 1 and 2 for application in task 3
  • students will create integrated visual assets and refine the prototype into a complete working and functional product experience.

Submission
  1. netlify link
  2. demonstration walkthrough video


My Selected topic: Animal Crossing (Seasons)

Figure 3.1 Concept Development

Figure 3.2 Moodboard

Figure 3.3 Visual References

Figure 3.4 Visual References of Websites

Further Concept Development

1. Typography
I selected the font family: Roboto

Figure 3.3 Selected Font Family



2. Colour Scheme

Figure 3.4 Colour Scheme

3. Lo-Fi Wireframes

After confirming the idea and path I want to do, I started on the wireframes, I did not go into detail as I just wanted to show the base of the website idea. Attached below is 3 slides showing the wireframe overview.

 
Figure 3.5 Wireframes Overview


4. User Flowchart

Figure 3.6 User Flowchart


Prepare the images and design elements

For my High-Fi Wireframes, I decided to do it in the same figma file but on a seperate page. This page consists of all the pages that can be seen in the website.

1. Design Process

Figure 3.7 Design Process

Figure 3.8 Final Design of High-Fi Wireframes

When designing on Figma, I referred to the Nookipedia (Wikipedia of Animal Crossing) for its' content and information about each season. From here, I copy and pasted all the images of the critters and imported them into my Figma file for each pages' design.

Nookipedia: link here
Figma file: link here


2. Prototype Overview

Figure 3.9 Prototype Overview



Planning & Prototype Slides
Figure 3.10 Planning & Prototype Slides


Presentation Video
Figure 3.11 Task 2 Presentation Video



Work Progress of Final Project

1. Images & Design Elements

Figure 3.10 Images & Design Elements

2. Figma Prototype

Figure 3.11 Figma Prototype

3. Adobe Animate Progress

Figure 3.12 Adobe Animate Progress

Figure 3.13 Timeline

4. Final Submission

Navigation Video
Figure 3.14 Navigation Video



Website Screenshots
Figure 3.15 Website Screenshots



FEEDBACK

Week 11
Organize files and folders and maintain a well-organised file structure for our project. For instance, use separate folders for JS, and assets like images or fonts. This keeps the project clean and manageable. Besides that, rename all layers will help keep the project organised.

Week 12
Before finalising my website, test on different devices to ensure it is fully responsive and user-friendly.

Week 13
Include clear comments to explain the purpose of code sections. This helps me understand better.


REFLECTION

In this task, it was difficult at first to come up with a kit and finalise my UI Kit for every detail and design to be the same style. After getting the hang of it, I got used to designing on Figma since I had to figure out a few new tools, this helped fasten the process of designing as well. I tried importing the Figma file into Adobe Illustrator, in hopes it will be easier for me to import from there to Adobe Animate. But then, I figured that exporting each element into PNGs from Figma is the easiest. 

While editing on Figma, I tried to think of ways I could animate a few elements which can help me with coming out with my animation ideas for my final proposal. From here, it gets smoother and I can finally start the process on Adobe Animate. 





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