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For Project 3 – Experience Website we had to create a brochure-ware website for a bookable and customisable physical experience. My chosen topics for the experience were science + punks. The website is to be accessible both on desktop and mobile browsers.
I’ve been finding it hard to track projects every single week since I usually break them down into smaller project parts. Perhaps, I’m also too of a perfectionist. That lead to procrastination. Now we are here in week 9 writing about both weeks 4 & 5, and the rest of them.
The tasks for the fourth and fifth weeks:
- brief break down
- audience and theme research
- experience websites research
Example of a experience website
This is the partial sitemap of the Magic Mike Live website. I think it is a well-designed experience website by the Brackets Digital agency. I took note of the pages and elements I thought worked well and found helpful. This sitemap served more or less as a blue print for my website design.
Audience Research
I chose quite a challenging theme-audience combination. For the science part, I looked at scientific diagrams and formulas. Then I looked at video experiments to try and capture the action and get a sense of potential kinda safe activities. For the punk part, I looked at album covers, Andy Warhol’s work, and just google images. Then I stumbled upon an inspirational punk website called Days of Punk.
Competitor Analysis
The idea for my experience is an intellectual type of rage room. A place were you could come with friends share drinks and learn whilst playing around with chemicals and different equipment. I researched rage rooms websites, some of them had well-designed elements I thought of incorporating. But mostly they were all poorly designed, either having way too many clicky things on the home page, long lists to get lost in or really confusing redirections.
miro link: Project 3 / Experience Website / Maggie