Concept Planning and Development
- Questions to ask yourself
- Issues in concept development
- Development steps
- Site metaphors
taken from Creating Internet Entertainment
slide: Concept Planning and Development
Questions to ask yourself
- Should you build a site?
- Do you know how to use the Internet effectively?
- Is your industry/business online?
- Low cost or high cost?
- Is the concept practical?
- Who will create the site?
- Who will develop/maintain the content?
- Who is the audience?
- Does your site fit within a community?
- Is access unlimited or members-only?
slide: Questions to ask yourself
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?
slide: Issues in Concept Development
Development Steps
- Proposal - short summary
- Description of purpose - economic model
- Concept - type, site, metaphor, multimedia
- Implementation facilities - CGI, Java, Shockwave
- Cost - hardware, software, support
- Time-table - research, production, development, launch...
- Maintenance and upgrades - personel
- Expansion options - programming and administration
- Appendix - flowchart and demographics
- Business plan - funding and marketing
slide: Development Steps
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)
slide: Metaphors for Sites