Prologue After getting feedback I went back and made any changes needed. I finished up the remaining pages I had yet to do and finished the eBook with 23 pages.   eBook Progress With 23 pages completed, I looked back over them to make sure the feedback I was given, was taken in. I had…Continue Reading IXD 304 – eBook Progress

Prologue This week was dedicated to a one on one feedback sessions on the Friday. I was very eager to show Kyle the progress on my eBook and get feedback on if it was going in the right direction.   The eBook Here is the link for the work in progress eBook. Apollo 11 EBook…Continue Reading IXD 304 – Week 11 Feedback

Prologue To quicken up the process, I plan to use illustrator to make each page in, then I’ll export them and place them into each page on InDesign. This way I can more control over each page. Title Page For the title page I tried to mimic the style of the field manuals produced by…Continue Reading IXD 304 – Making the eBook Pages

Prologue After reading up what eBooks where and the history about them, I looked at how to make one. I asked myself, what tools do I have at my disposal? I will start with the last question I asked myself, what tools are there out there to make eBooks? eBook Creating Tools I don’t really…Continue Reading IXD 304 – How to make an eBook

Prologue This week was all about how we can manage data and how we can display it in a manner that is pleasing to look at. There are many ways to display data the most basic forms include, pie charts, bar charts, tables, etc. As a designer we want to display this data in a…Continue Reading IXD 304 – Week 9 – Amplifying Data

Prologue This week was a little different than normal, as this week we had a guest lecture by David Henderson Design about storytelling. Why is Storytelling Important in Design? Storytelling describes the social and cultural activity of sharing stories, sometimes with improvisation, theatrics, or embellishment. Every culture has its own stories or narratives, which are…Continue Reading IXD 304 – Week 8 – Storytelling

Prologue This is an article covering many topics related to ebooks, the opening lines We live in the age of electronic everything. eCommerce, eBanking, eTickets, eGift Cards, eCigarettes, and the list goes on. It really shows how everything is becoming electonric in one way or another. As the writer says people love the idea of doing…Continue Reading IXD 304 – What is an eBook?

Prologue This week we looked at Ebooks, as we are now onto the second leg of our module, we where now tasked with either taking our immersive prototype and making it a full fledged website, or we had the option of an ebook. I have never actually attempted to make an ebook so I decided…Continue Reading IXD 304 – Week 7 – The Story of Ebooks

Week 6 Feedback Session This week we did our group feedback session. The session was done in the lecture threater. Here is the newer version of my prototype, seen in the feedback session.   Here is the feedback I received Add more Imagery Continue to Add more content Play around with adding a help menu…Continue Reading IXD 304 – Apollo Programme Feedback

Prologue From my initial ideas, I wanted to focus on the idea of a computer screen, either in the mission control room or onboard one of the spacecrafts. I choose to do about the Apollo 11 mission specifically as it was the first time we set foot on another terrestial body in our solar system….Continue Reading IXD 304 – Apollo Programme Prototype