Interactive Multimedia Design
Thinking through the Interactivity - Post 1
~ Thinking through ~
Ever since my conceptual presentation I have been thinking about the interaction we commonly find in web pages. It seems like a lot of interaction we see is based upon the principle of a button that is basically an icon which reveals information that the icon appears to indicate by representation. There are limited degrees of revealing information thus: you either see it or have to click to see it.
I guess you can kind of see it even in a flash game where one part is made to attract attention – be immediately indicative of the decision you are to make and then you click to go ahead. Its all based on the “click here to find more about this or choose this”
It's a simple and effective principle to structure anything interactive but I think what would happen with a less iconographic method?
I believe that an interface that delves into this notion of the degrees in which you can reveal information besides icons to maneuver through the layers would change the user’s position. It means they are provoked into an investigational role rather than one of a director.
Going back to the content I intended for my concept - to teach students about illustration this is exactly what I want them to do. To search and analyze without the interface speaking loudly to them – directing them where to go or what they can decide.
And then I find myself asking again - how do I achieve this?
Or perhaps what I am really asking is how is the content revealed? How do users search?
~ Some inspiration ~
Rather recently I have been introduced to yet again another website:
http://www.eisenmanarchitects.com/
Looking at this website what I find fascinating is how the layers of information are seemingly integrated- they are part of one another. The planes of information appear to zoom in and out of the previous one - and if you click fast enough you get you can see them move simultaneously.
The page functions around the use of iconic buttons but it is the transitional action between each piece of information that fascinates me when I look at it.
Ever since my conceptual presentation I have been thinking about the interaction we commonly find in web pages. It seems like a lot of interaction we see is based upon the principle of a button that is basically an icon which reveals information that the icon appears to indicate by representation. There are limited degrees of revealing information thus: you either see it or have to click to see it.
I guess you can kind of see it even in a flash game where one part is made to attract attention – be immediately indicative of the decision you are to make and then you click to go ahead. Its all based on the “click here to find more about this or choose this”
It's a simple and effective principle to structure anything interactive but I think what would happen with a less iconographic method?
I believe that an interface that delves into this notion of the degrees in which you can reveal information besides icons to maneuver through the layers would change the user’s position. It means they are provoked into an investigational role rather than one of a director.
Going back to the content I intended for my concept - to teach students about illustration this is exactly what I want them to do. To search and analyze without the interface speaking loudly to them – directing them where to go or what they can decide.
And then I find myself asking again - how do I achieve this?
Or perhaps what I am really asking is how is the content revealed? How do users search?
~ Some inspiration ~
Rather recently I have been introduced to yet again another website:
http://www.eisenmanarchitects.com/
Looking at this website what I find fascinating is how the layers of information are seemingly integrated- they are part of one another. The planes of information appear to zoom in and out of the previous one - and if you click fast enough you get you can see them move simultaneously.
The page functions around the use of iconic buttons but it is the transitional action between each piece of information that fascinates me when I look at it.
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