Re: Proposal Comments

  • Jun 18, 2012
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Kyle:

"I look forward to seeing your sketches. I think you are thinking about this in the right way... this really says it all:

"It makes the most sense to have the following / role modeling system subtly present in all aspects of the site, rather than having an isolated place on the site for users to go and see worlds and activity by the people they [should] admire and thus follow."

I do think it may be a good idea to try and figure out what groups you want to present on the users page by actually trying to come up with some example users and see if these groups make sense. I'm not really sure at this point... but it seems like a good exercise to actually explore the space.

I would also like to point out that I think that "more exciting" webpages for kids can be distracting. I'm not sure that animations are a good idea and I'm very pessimistic about saturated colors... I want us to remember that we are talking about middle school children here. However, I do agree about the white space. I really think we need the background of this site to be a different color (even if the middle is white).

You've done a great job thinking through this project and I look forward to seeing the results at the end of the summer."

Re: Kyle:

I agree that it will be much easier to determine which user groups should be separated out on the users index page after talking to the users themselves.

In regard to the distraction factor of flashy websites for kids, I think it might be clearer what I mean now that the sketches are [sort of] visible. I just want to add mouse-overs so that the site seems a little more interactive and as a means of conserving screen space without displaying any less information. I think we could maybe change the background color, but my main purpose in adding javascript animations is just to make the site less text heavy at first impression.

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