04/10/2012
Over the past 2 weeks we have been creating our Human Computer Interface using flash. Lately we have been creating our HCI icons and adding them into flash as fully interactive buttons.
These icons will be used to identify key points of interest along the routs used by our client for their Multi-Story Water Project.
Because these HCI's have to be accessible to anyone in the public we needed to make sure that the ideas and concepts for our icons were easy to identify and not too complicated. This meant designing them to follow basic recognizable elements used in icons on other forms of software and websites, such as Audio Control, which is usually shown as a speaker with several lines coming out of it to show whether there is sound coming out and how high the sound is. Or a back button in the form of an arrow or symbol that is identified with the previous page such as an image of a map to identify the back to the map icon.
The designs for my icons and HCI follow a dark industrialized theme, hence why i named the design 'Dark' and was to symbolize the dark technological boom in society that was Britain in the time of the industrial revolution.
Converting the icons to buttons has been the most difficult part of designing our HCI's thus far, as in many cases we had to recreate our icons in flash after drawing them by hand then editing them in Photoshop Also applying the coding to the buttons to make them work and successfully interact with the different scenes and buttons inside the HCI's.
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