Concept Planing and Development


Concept Planning and Development

taken from Creating Internet Entertainment


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Questions to ask yourself


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Issues in Concept Development

  • Choose a name!
  • Choose a class - micro or macro?
  • Choose a metaphor - literal is possible!
  • Develop a flowchart - navigation
  • User-centric - adaptive (cookie)?
  • Interactivity - email, form, bulletin, polls, chat, ...
  • User evaluation - is it effective?

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Development Steps

  1. Proposal - short summary
  2. Description of purpose - economic model
  3. Concept - type, site, metaphor, multimedia
  4. Implementation facilities - CGI, Java, Shockwave
  5. Cost - hardware, software, support
  6. Time-table - research, production, development, launch...
  7. Maintenance and upgrades - personel
  8. Expansion options - programming and administration
  9. Appendix - flowchart and demographics
  10. Business plan - funding and marketing

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Metaphors for Sites

  • spatial - cities, solar system, room, backyard
  • representational - train, ship, radio
  • person or entity - home, tax-wizard
  • time or event - camera, mechanical arm, fishcam
  • literal - functional control (tables and lists)

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