Design for the User Week 9

This week I have continued working on my site in flash. I have added all the content for the site and have given all the place names on the map buttons for the user to click on to take then to a link or pdf of a walk in that area. I decided to change the white boxes that contained the text to Aplha's so you could still see the image in the background but could still read the text. Below is how site looks now with a Home, Guided Walks, Book a Tour and Contact Us pages.

The next will be to do some user testing on the site. I intend to ask family and people I know in the 60+ age group to test my site. Then from the results of the user testing I'll be able to see what needs changing and what doesn't

Designing for the user week 8 22/4/10

This week I started getting my site created in flash after finishing the logo design. I also decided I wanted a map of the dales so the user could click the relevant location on the map and info on walks in that area and a map would come up. I found a map on the internet of the Dales which I imported into Illustrator and drew around it with the pen tool. I then added the place names and red dots next to each name that would be transformed into buttons in flash. Below is what the map looked like after I had finished it in Illustrator.

After I had drawn the map out in Illustrator I imported it to the library in flash along with pics of the Dales I had found on the internet. I then started designing my site in flash using the rough layout I had drawn out of how I wanted it to look. Below is my first flash design for the site:

I created a home, guided tours, book a tour and contact us pages in a green nav bar underneath the header that displayed the Grandays Out Logo I designed and the Yorkshire Dales official logo. Underneath the navigation was the main content which would be text on top of a faded out pic of the Dales.