Week 5B

Before class:

What I have ready for class today is about 80% of the storyboard for the conference. (screenshot below). I refined it from the sketched version and showed more of a breakdown of each individual motion. I changed the clock idea I had sketched along with the original map idea. The map idea is now an arrow and the clock is reminiscent of an old clock that is now on  some types of smart phones. The motion is now stopping towards the original middle from the sketched version.

The other work I had ready for class today was revised versions of my app logo. I got rid of more of the cutesy features of the owl so it would appeal to adults more. Most of the people I received feedback from last class felt that the global owl spoke more to my app, so where I just had a plain colored owl I switched it out to the global owl. A suggestion I had received was to try to show it in motion/flying and I had trouble depicting it with it still reading as an owl and not a hawk or another bird. I like the outlined idea in theory but I feel it got more detailed and may not read well small.

After/during class:

We discussed the readings and we did a round robin critique of our icon designs. My feedback was overall very mixed. Many people wrote that they liked multiple and a few had suggestions on cropping. I also received feedback that they were cute... This tends to be my drawing style but I am trying to stay away from that for my adult audience. For this reason, the ones labeled as cute by many, I will not be pursuing. 

For next class I am vectorizing the second one in the first picture. It received a lot of good feedback and fits well with my app. I may pursue a few others depending on how it turns out small.

I am going to have a completed/closer to finalized storyboard for next class. I am switching the arrow graphic to match the one from the back cover. I am going to revisited the smartphone section, possibly make it horizontal, since there is so much empty space around it. Also, I am going to decide how to show the actions done on screen. Finally the last screen will just have event information, not the conference name again, because it was decided it was too busy.