HOW DID IT START ? 

RESEARCH 

SOME FIRST IMPRESSIONS FROM OUR QUESTIONS TO THE GAMERS 

DURING THIS RESEARCH I FOUND PRETTY INTERESTING THINGS THAT I CAN USE IN MY INTERFACE.
FIRST, I'M SHOWING SOME OF THE ANSWERS THAT WE RECEIVED FROM AWESOMESPACE IN UTRECHT. AFTER THAT 5 OF THE GAMERS THAT REPLIED WANTED TO PARTICIPATE IN OUR TESTING.

THESE ARE OUR FIRST REACTIONS TO THE
TASK FROM THE VERY BEGINNING. AT FIRST, MY SUGGESTION WAS TO GO WITH THE "CREATURES OF THE NIGHT", BECAUSE IT SOUNDED MORE FAMILIAR THAN THE OTHERS AND I THOUGHT THAT WE COULD HAVE DONE BETTER INTERFACE CONCERNING THIS TOPIC. LATER ON, WE DISCUSSED IT IN DEEP AND WE DECIDED TO GO WITH THE GAMERS AND THE WEB ARCHIVE, NOT BECAUSE IT WAS INTERESTING, BUT BECAUSE IT WAS CHALLENGING AND NOT REALLY CLEAR FOR US. WE CHOSE IT WITH THE IDEA OF DEVELOPING OUR THINKING AS DESIGNERS.
AND TO BE HONEST I'M GLAD FOR THAT DECISION.

FOR ME PERSONALLY WAS A BIT UNCLEAR WHAT IS AN INTERFACE EXACTLY AND HOW WE CAN TRANSLATE IT. WE STARTED TO APPLY DIFFERENT TERMS AND IMAGES REGARDING THE MAIN TOPIC- THE GAMER.
YOU CAN SEE THE DETAILS IN THE TABS:
MAPING THE COLLECTION AND MAPPING THE USER.
THEY ARE IN THE MAIN TAB OF OUR HOTGLUE SITE.

AFTER THE CLASSES WITH GABRIELLE ABOUT THE INTERFACES, I FOUND FOR MYSELF REALLY INTERESTING POINTS. I ASKED MYSELF QUESTIONS LIKE: WHAT COULD BE AN INTERFACE ? AND IF YOU THINK ABOUT IT EVERYTHING COULD BE AN INTERFACE DEPENDS ON THE POINT OF VIEW.

ME AND GABRIELLE DISCUSSED SOME OF MY INTERFACES AND SHE WAS IMPRESSED BY MY WAY OF STRUCTURING THE INFORMATION FOR EACH INTERFACE.
THEN I DECIDED TO CREATE GROUPS (OF 2) AND TO COMPARE THEM. FOR EXAMPLE YOU CAN SEE THE IMAGE BELLOW. COMPARING BETWEEN THE ELEVATOR AND THE METRO AND HOW THEY ARE ALMOST THE SAME. THE ONLY DIFFERENCE IS THE FUNCTION.

AFTER ALL WE DECIDED OUR USERS TO BE RETRO GAMERS AND GAMBLERS.

THE FIRST ASSESSMENT WITH MARK AND ROGERIO WAS QUITE GOOD AND HELPFUL TO UNDERSTAND WHICH PARTS ARE GOOD AND WHICH AREN'T.
THEIR FEEDBACK WAS OVERALL POSITIVE EXCEPT THE THING "RETRO GAMERS PLUS GAMBLERS" ?? FROM THERE WE STARTED TO CONSIDER WHETHER THE GAMBLERS WOULD SUIT WELL INTO OUR FUTURE PROTOTYPES... ?