Here is the photo I edited
Here is my Flash Project http://www.globaljournalist.org/stories/2009/06/01/independent-journalism-at-stake/
Before I started this project, I already spent a lot of time thinking about how to design it. There is a lot of information, with seven journalists and very long chunks of text for each of them. It would thus easily get boring. One idea was using the names of the journalists as links to the interviews with them, but I dropped it right away, as that would add more text and make the viewing more cumbersome. Another idea is using their photos. However, as the Egyptian journalist used an alias, I could not use her image. Also, the photos that I managed to get were very inconsistent in quality and different in color tones, one was even black and white. Therefore if I grouped all the images together, they would look disorganized.
I finally settled on the idea of the little maps of the countries from which the journalists came from as the buttons. They made the flash project more attractive while also giving adding information to the story. It gave readers some imagination about the countries where the journalists come from.
I made various measurements to make sure that the screen of the flash was suitable and not stretch beyond the computer screen. It could not be too small, as less text could be put on the screen, while it could not be too long, as it would stretch beyond the computer screen and viewers could not see the whole structure of the flash layout.
From this project, I felt that my vision in designing seemed to be improving markedly compared with when I began working at the Global Journalist. I have a better way of combining colors and of putting little details into the flash, so that it can be user-friendly while looking good. Examples are the maps with the name of the countries changing color when readers hover the mouse over each of them. Or the arrows will stay in the same places in each story. Also, the colors choices are consistent and complement each other.
RESEARCH:
I had to put some changes into my survey and Web sites. Khoi To, a statistics student, remarked that my mentioning in the introduction that there were as many as 69 questions would deter people from completing the survey. He recommended that I should cut down the questions which I was unwilling to do. Ngoc Vo, who worked as a web evaluator at the IE lab of School of Information of Science and Learning Technologies, said that I should make the introduction shorter, as most people will tend to skip it anyway and go straight to the survey. She also pointed out that I should not put the button “Next” inside my Web sites, as this will confuse the readers. They might assume that it belongs to the Web site and not that it is in fact a button of the survey. She recommended that I should put the button outside my Web site and make it look exactly like the one in the survey pages. I followed her advice about the changes.
http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=bP_2blR_2f2MQRi7GvsVry2H1g_3d_3d
I plan to try out the survey on some more of my friends to see if I could improve further and then launch it later this week or early next week the latest.
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