Final Project Conclusion

While constructing this project I was able to realize how much work there is in the pre-production phase of creating a project. My project through the quarter took some changes do to the way I was constructing my video viewer. This was a challenging project because I was using Actionscript 3.0 and the Flex Builder for the very first time to build this project. It was something different and exciting at the same time to learn something new and powerful.

The project was all dynamic and there was no use of Flash or timeline animation, all the functionality was constructed with pure code, which I was very proud of myself. The final look of the project looks the same in a way but altered due to the scope of my project.

USER TESTING

I tested this video viewer with some of my fellow WDIMers and also people that I know. Thanks to their feedback on the project I was able to rethink certain ways that I could have constructed my code and later on vamp out the UI. One of the more interesting critiques I got was why is there no control bar and no status bar, so that is one of the elements that I will be adding to my project in the future thanks to the critiques

Final Thoughts of the Class:

I thought this was a very interesting class because it was a diverse class of all levels and interest. It has given me a better understanding on people get entertained by the media that is out there today. I hope that my video cast was great for all to...I tried to put in there the whole entertainment aspect by me being a bit goofy. Thanks Sharon again for the great class!

The video can be seen here:

www.neiltan.net/neilFC.mov

Project Thoughts...

The video viewer that I mocked up has taken some changes due to technical specifications for my project. I am constructing a simple video viewer that will display video work. The reason why I am making a more simplistic viewer is because I am coding the player in Flex Builder using XML and AS3, meaning loading all of my content dynamically. This has been a huge challenge but a great learning experience and still is. Flex is a great development tool and has sparked an interest in me to start developing in the builder. Right now I am building the classes for the viewer. It is crunch time for sure!

Persona Research/Persona

This week I researched user personas on a couple sites thatgave out some really great steps on how to develop personas. One site broke down user personas into ten steps and can be seen in the diagram below.

Here are ten steps:

step:1 Finding the User

step:2 Building a Hypothesis

step:3 Verification

step:4 Find Patterns

step:5 Constructing Personas

-Body

-Psyche

-Background

-Emotions and Attitudes

-Personal Traits

step:6 Defining Situations

step:7 Validation and Buy In

step:8 Dissemination of Knowledge

step:9 Creating Scenarios

step: 10 Ongoing Development

visit the sites:

Ten Steps to User Persona

Personas

Work Cited for this link:

Dr.Lene Nielson. "Ten Steps to User Persona." HCI Vistas. 2007. 2 Mar. 2009 .

Head, Allison. "Personas: Setting the Stage for Building Usable Information Sites."2003. Information Today. 2 Mar. 2009

User Persona:

• Gender: Male
• Age:23
• Is involved in the video/film industry, is web savvy, has knowledge of video production and web.
• Activities:
• Active Vimeo viewer
• Avid movie and video production viewer
• Enjoys flash websites
• Enjoys great production skills
• Likes to edit video or film
• Reads the magazine Filmmakers
• Uses Final Cut Pro

Site Requirements

Technologies Used:

• Adobe Flex Builder
• Adobe Flash and Photoshop CS4
• Actionscript 3.0, XML
• CSS,HTML

Technical Needs and Requirements:

• Research sites that have similar functionality
• Research Papervision for Navigation
• Research AS3 Programming
• Video Compression Bit Rate+Download time