Critical Review

Critical Review;

I feel my project was an overall success but there are a few areas I would have liked to improve. If I was given the opportunity again, I would have contacted the school system earlier than I did, which would have possible secured a meeting before the one I attended, this would mean the extremely important input from the school children was received with more time to implement them.

 

This extra time would have enabled me to longer in the design process, rather than the delay I experienced leading up to the Christmas break. Despite this I believe the project completed to a high standard through-out and tight deadlines were met. I would have liked more time to improve and perfect my project but the time controlled aspect of project restricted that. 

 

Technology was probably the biggest problem I had as Adobe Edge removed JQuery which was a fundamental part of the applications build, this required a switch to Animate CC although this helped with getting the application onto an iPad, which was the original plan I needed to learn a completely new software program which knocked the project back a week. The use of Xcode as a replacement for Adobe Edge was not recommended due to the complexity of it. 

On further reflection, I would improve the software element of the project as the switch to Animate CC hindered my progress. Animate CC was quite outdated and didn’t have the required support needed to move at the speed I intended to. Although the software was not the best, I was still able to finish all tasks on time and to the expectations of the target audience, but a more supportive software may have given me extra time.

 

To summarise, the project was finished to a high standard and there are many aspects I am happy with, and others I hoped would be better. More time would have enabled me to finish to an even higher standard but Adobe losing the JQuery support mid project requiring me to learn a new software restricted this. I am happy the application worked and it was for the benefit of the children users.

100 Words

100 Word;

A digital Story book that shows children the different types of colourblindness, while letting them understand it in a fun creative way.  Through a series of challenges they help the people of Woogleton return the colour to their world while learning about the different types of colourblindness.  Challenges ranging colouring in the bakery to repairing the toys in the toy shop.  While doing these they are being told about the different types of Colourblindness and helping the people of Woogleton also understand what has happened.

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The Toy Shop Challenge

Second Challenge;

So for the next part of the story we are taken to Ella's Toy Shop where the reds have been removed from the store and what the children are going to be doing here is a simple drag and drop style game where they have to rebuild the destroyed toys.  By rebuilding the toys they also manage to fix the colours.

This was something I had never done before and was actually surprizingly simple to accomplish, what I did was first of all in Illustrator I created the different toys, and then selected sections of the toys for grouping and splitting from the rest of the group, allowing me to create a type of jigsaw puzzle.  This was a complished by turning the different parts into symbols and then naming them for the code.  I then had to activate the button mode so that if used on a desktop the you can see when you have it selected.  Once this was all done I had to create variables for the start and finish points so that if you dont get it in the right place that it snaps back to where it started off, but because no one can get the exact pixels correct I also added in an offset so that it didn't need to be exact it just had to be in a certain range, in the case of the app 20 pixels.

once the toy is rebuilt a button appears which allows you to fix the colour on the toy returning it back to its former glory.

on the left we have the drag application, and on the right animate showing a section of the code