PRP - 1st Artifact

Say a person with protanopia colour blindness viewed a red object. The shade of the object would appear different to them than to us. However they still associate the shade they see with as ‘red’. Everytime they see that shade, its red to them.

There are general rules in web design about the colour combinations not to display. Many people are colour blind and would not be able to see red or green text on a brown background. However, what if these colour combinations were desired by a designer, to fit in with a brand for instance?

For my first artifact, I have designed a page so that people with normal vision and people suffering from Protanopia, Deutanopia, and Tritanopia colour blindness can all view the same page and still read the text.

The page works using links for each specific colour blindness. When clicked the background and text colours of the problem section are changed to give the best contrast for the user’s vision.

Colour options for websites exist, but with multiple filters on a website, or even browsers - changing the colours to provide better contrast - would enable a better user-experience and company-user interaction for the majority of people suffering from colour blindness using the web.

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Research Project - 1st Artifact

I have found a colourblind filter tool which shows you websites through the "eyes" of people with specific types of colour blindness. http://colorfilter.wickline.org/
I will use this tool and apply it to webpages for the first artifact, rather than creating my own page. This will not just save me time, but allow the artifact audience to view many recognizable webpages under the position of someone with colour blindness.

This will help to show different sized company's approach to their whole audience.

Research Project

For my first artifact, I will be investigating the web experience of people with colour blindness. I will do this by creating a webpage that recreates how a normal page would appear if viewed by a person with colour blindness. I will show this to people the who don't suffer from colour blindness and guage their reactions and views via a questionaire.
The aim of this first artifact is gauge 'normal' people's reaction to how colour blind people experience the web. The artifact will also raise the issue of to what extent standards of web design take all people's experience of their webpages into consideration.

My Portfolio

Ive now got a domain name for my porfolio - www.greensky-creations.co.uk
I like greensky because green is associated with grass, so its kind of a twist on 'bluesky'. Its like turning things upside down (turning design on it's head).
Over the next few weeks I shall produce my own template and then start to upload my work. But in the meantime I will use one of the free templates provided with 123reg.co.uk

The Dark Knight


This is the first trailer of the sequel to Batman Begins and it look like its going to be another corker! Only 6 months to wait :(

I love the way this film looks. Its dark and colours are saturated - makes it look slick.

My Portfolio

Ive recently bought some web space with 123-reg.co.uk and am in the process of picking a domain name. This sounds easier than its prooving to be. Because my name isn't particually 'catchy' Ive been thinking of an allias to go under.
Everything Ive thought of (and googled) so far is taken. Most recently being '9th design' - http://www.9thdesign.co.nz/

I'll keep you posted when I come up with something good thats available. 'You' being anyone whose's reading this - just me I'm guessing!

Call of Duty 4
Ive been playing call of duty alot over xmas. What a fantastic game! I would say im about half way through the single player game. But I havn't played that for a while.
The online multiplayer mode is where its at! Theres servers with up and in excess of 50 players and it hardly ever lags!! Im up to lvl 35, which is Corporal (i think).

Features

• Authentic weapons include assault rifles with laser sites, claymore mines, .50 caliber sniper rifles, M-249 SAW machine guns and more;
• Engage hostiles from above in a thoroughly modern aerial gunship;
• Rim lighting, character self-shadowing, texture streaming and physics-enabled effects add incredible realism;
• Rack up experience points to unlock new items and gain perks;
• Create-a-class options allow you to customize gear for the best chance of success;
• Ride as part of an armada of attack choppers delivering manpower to the battlefield;
• Take down enemies from the sky in well-equipped jets;
• Matchmaking and leaderboards provide the latest developments in tracking;
  

Review week

I had a feedback meeting today, which didnt go well. I was basically told that my work was crap and not worthy of merit.

Tutor's comments were fair and constructive and they had the following advise:

• Develop an online presence;
• Create some decent work;
• Best work in an online portfolio;
• Examine what field of web design I wish to go in to;
• Use blog for commenting on anything i find interesting or cool (doesn't have to be web);

So lets get started!...

Client Project

Ive come across this great website http://www.deviantart.com/
Its an online community of artists work which im sure will come to be invaluable for inspiration.
Especially http://browse.deviantart.com/designs/web/ which is specifically concerned with building an online community and displaying interesting web page interfaces.