Wednesday, June 6, 2007

Search Engines

Try this:

Open Google.

Type failure into the search box.

Hit "I'm feeling lucky".

Tuesday, June 5, 2007

Mood board and Territory

At the same time as a look at the first template wireframes we also got a sneak peek at the mood board for our creative direction. Did I tell You about the Territory - if I didn't I should have. Sorry.

The territory that we have for the project is perfect. It addresses exactly what we need from the site. This is a public blog, so I can't go into too much detail, but you can feel comfortable that we have a territory and it's the right territory.

Anyway - we saw the draft mood board and it was spot on for our target consumer Paul but I'm not sure it worked for Antonella and we need something that will work for everyone.

I think it just needs a few tweaks but it goes back to gender differences and the fact that men and women want different things from a web experience.

First template

Yesterday we took a look at the wireframes for the first template.

It's looks good, I think.

I discovered that it's really difficult for my brain to work with wireframes. I need pictures to make it come alive. To be honest, I need moving pictures.

We have a plan for something that's dynamic and interactive and static wireframes displayed in PowerPoint just don't do the plans justice.

Choose-O-Matic

Now over my dead body will we actually call this application Choose-O-Matic, but at the same time as we saw the Navigation we saw the thinking behind the Choose-O-Matic (a working title only - honestly).

The Choose-O-Matic will help users who are new to us, and unfamilar with the range.

It's interesting. It's definitely different. And secretly...I would like to call it Choose-O-Matic. But don't tell anyone I said that.

Monday, June 4, 2007

We have a winner!

We have a name: ENGInE – European Next Generation Interactive Experience

Congratulations to Inga Nordby at Wunderman. A prize will be winging its way to you.

Gender research presentation

Tuesday, May 15, 2007

Navigation

We went through the draft navigation proposal this week.

What we saw was different but conventional, if that makes sense, which it probably doesn't.

It was similar to the current nav. but also very different.

I think that's a good solution.

We'll have the surprise of something that's new but the comfort of something that's familar.