Art Organizations

As I am doing my client project for Prime Cuts, I thought I'd look at some art organization websites to get some inspiration and ideas.

Shape



Arts Council



Institute of Contemporary Arts


Paddington Arts

Research - Interactivity=Sales

Interactivity = Sales

• If you can draw your reader’s eye and successfully get them to do something, you are on your way to winning new customers.
• Be interactive, because when your customers feel compelled to do something, they are one step closer to buying!

"Interactivity=Sales" [online]
http://www.thunderdata.com/thunder_bits/importance_of_interactive_websites.html
[Accessed 20 October 2011]

Research - Importance of Interactivity in Web Deign

Importance of Interactivity in Web Deign

• Interactivity has increasingly become one of the central themes of web design.
• A truly successful website is able to encourage any level of interaction.
• A good single user interaction should be able to provide the user with an engaging element on the website’s content.
• A positive interaction will encourage a good relationship between the user and the content.

“Importance of Interactivity in Web Design” [online]
http://www.nethu.org/2011/07/importance-of-interactivity-in-web-design/
[Accessed 20 October 2011]

Research Project Topic

I haven't said anything about the research project here yet :/

So I had several ideas at the beginning, and they were all based on the idea of Interactivity.
I looked at some articles on the internet like this one is about being interactive on commercial websites in order to gain more customers. And this one is about the importance of interactivity in web design.
I came up with this question after considering different topics:

How interactive websites help commercial companies build up a brand compare to ordinary websites?

And after talking to my tutor and looking at some more articles on this journal, I've moderated the question to:

Does different interactivity on a website affect users’ perception of a brand?

I've already submitted the Research Top Form and now in the process of reading articles and books. Will be updated soon!

Touch Screen Electric Guitar

So I came across this touch screen electric guitars and thought they are really cool to share - The Misa Digital Guitar



So you can make a whole lot of different sounds from this guitar just like an electric piano but with a guitar. Creating special sound effect doesn't seem so hard now:)

And with the technology improving everyday, I believe daily object with the need of interactivity will become bigger and bigger.

Music Video - Even Now by Sung Si Kyung

Hong Kong!
Some how it made Hong Kong looked so beautiful. I feel unfamiliar with my hometown...

Anyway, I like how the way this music video was shoot.

Simulated Client - Final Design

So I made it. But I think it looks plain and too simple. So I go and searched for some more cancer-fund websites and then I had the idea of adding some colours into the paragraphs from this website- http://www.cancer-fund.org/en/index.html

I like how the colours in the paragraphs highlight some key words and makes the page less dull.

So here's the improved version-