Colour

I felt that I should try my hand with colours from my colour pellet (dark red) and use the old paper texture to help show the feel I want the hands to look like.

making the hands

I decided that I should start working out how to animate the pointing of the hands as animation is not my strong point. I took photos of a hand moving and then drew it out in photoshop, now comes the hard bit of making it move...

colour pallet

This is my colour pallet I was planing to base my work on, I tried to find colours that gave an old fashioned feel to it. I fell that I will focus on the warmer colours such as the reds, browns and oranges, as I felt warm colours makes it more inviting and friendly.

App viewing

this is a few of my screens i want to use for my app, I am still trying out fonts, colours and sizes. 

map style

I am planing to make a unique map for my app to show the user briefly where they are going in a birds eye view before going into the 3D viewing, I felt that if it drew out the out like on where they were going in birds eye view the person would get a feel on where they were going. I want the map to draw the part from where they are to there destination.
I was trying to keep to the idea of making the pictures out of words that related to the building, such as cotton the words; Cotton, CO, Vic Uni, Kelburn, Wellington. My first design I tried to use colour to define which building was what but it didn't come off visually appalling so i went back to another idea of mine giving it an old vintage feel and only using brown and reds, I felt that this Idea came of stronger as it related to an old map and gave character.

My wireframe for my app

Hands

I felt that using an arrow to show the way was not very unique so I tried to come up with other ways that people would know that something is directing them that wasn't an arrow. I came up with the idea of using hands to directing them, such as pointing to the left or right to turn, or pushing if you had to push a button or a door open. or even doing the walking movement with two fingers.

I felt that I would have to find a way to make it in flash which is what I think will be the hardest thing as I'm not to confident with flash so might not be able to pursue this idea. but will try my best as i think it would give my app character and makes it unique and fun.

Maps with text

I looked into maps and images that where only made with text to see how other people had only used just words to construct there work. I found they used different colours, fonts size's and angels to distinguish the different parts of there work, such as in the top one they use different angles size's and colours to create the iconic building of London while in the bottom one they use them same technique but they have made a map of San-Fransisco where the roads are in black and red while the parks and water are in green and yellow. also in the bottom one it shows that the more important ones are put in larger text so it is easier to be read and easier to follow.

inspring image

I stumbled across this photo of art work by Christlicher Garten, I felt that this work helped reflect my idea of what I want to do. As he uses text to contract walls and ceilings to create this unique path way. This helps we see how I can do door ways and tangent hallways.

Walls of words

I felt that I should try make a mock up of a 3D viewing of a corridor made of just words, to see the effect it could have, i could it quite easy to make it on photoshop when I have a photo to work off. I felt that I should have the path directed with something that contrasted to the words, which is what is shown the the purple line, I feel it stands out from the words making it easy to follow. If you read the walls you can see it reads words such as, Kelburn, vic uni, cotton, words that relate to Vic, so it make it unique to Vic.

developing the home page

Pictures made of words

I felt that I should they develop the idea from the marauders map with the way that the walls are made out of walls, I feel that this give a unique aesthetic and also helps the user direct them on where they are or where they are going, they could have the the name on the building as the wall, or the name of the room you are passing as the was.

I like the idea of the hands in the way that the thickness of the text helps show depth and shadowing of the image, I feel that I could try and incorporate something like this into my app to help it give a 3D form if I what to use a 3D viewing for the directions. I could use different colour or text to distinguish different parts of the map, such as the walls, or the windows.

i would also have to think about contrast with the 3D viewing world to the director (the arrows or directed path) such as not making the arrows words or making them a bright colour 

class brainstorming

 

This is some of the ideas we came up with in a group that we could do for your app. we thought about what the different screens could be, like my intertidal ideas we came up the an icon screen finding the closest toilet or cafe to the users location, or a screen that you would write in you start and finish location so the app could find the best route

we also thought about the different ways we could direct the user to there destination, such as the normal map drawing out the partway, or a vertical section of a building showing all the floors so the user know which level they could go on, we also looked at the way that the app could use the camera to show the user what they are looking at in front of them as well as the app directing them. 

we lastly thought of different fetchers the app could have to make it unique such as a friend tracker like the marauders map were you can find friends located on he campus, or an app at follows how much you walk throughout the day so it can tell you how much you have traveled and how meany calories you have lost, for all the people who are fitness freaks. To even customize the colours and themes so it makes ever users one unique or make it a game to collect coins of there travels around the campus which they can use to activate more colours and themes.

marauders map

I liked the idea of the marauders map in the harry potter series, in the way that it not only a map to guide you around the school but also tells you were people are located within the school premiers, I know you cant have a map like this as we do not come from a magical world but I fell that I could incorporate some of this aspect into my app.

So I felt that I could try incorporate something similar like this into my app with the use of technology as I feel that the hardest thing to find is not a building but trying to find a person, so I felt that in my app you could not only use it to find your way to and from a building but also to find people.

I think you could use the finding of people you know, in a way you could add your fiends to it, or you could find lecturers and tutors when they are around campus and it could tell you if they are on campus and where they are located, of tell you if they are busy, such as if they have a class on, because there is nothing worse they spending half a day trying to find your tutor to find they aren't on campus.

also another thing i like of the marauders map is the aesthetics, I like the old fashioned feel to it, they way they use foot prints to path the way and the way that the walls are made up with the name of the room, i think it gives a unique and cleaver way of presenting it.

mapping

I felt that I should think about some of the ways I could set up this app;

 

I felt that I should have a main screen where you could say were you want to start and where you want to finish

 I felt that for the user to find there way it should first draw out the direction on a birds eye view map then;

then I think it would be easier for the user if it showed you in a 3d view of where to go so they know what they are looking at when they a finding the destination, i feel that it it has a 3D view is a good way to help they user find there way as it will show things such as door and stairs and also it will show iconic or unique signs along the way that maps wont show, like windows, or different coloured doors or posters and paintings on the wall.

symbols

I also felt that I should look at universal symbols that people would recognise, such as the toilet sign of the man and woman and the information I

I felt that I could have a a menu on the app that had some helpful destinations for the user to find close to them, such as find the closet toilet or ATM to where they are located. I made a mock up of what this menu could look like

I looked at the kelbun campus map and used some of the icons that they had used so it could be easy to relate to the map, such as the bus stop and cafes located around the campus. I felt that all the user could do was push on the symbol and it would find the closest one to where they were located and then help them get to the destination