E-waste-+Consumption+and+Accumulation

=E-Waste: Consumption and Accumulation=

For this project, I decided to look into the consumption of ICT per capita (2000 and 2001) and accumulation of e-waste (2003) in Canada, China, Switzerland and the United States. These 3 countries were addressed in my website, which was my reasoning for choosing these 4 particular countries. I thought it would be interesting to see the differences between North America, Asia and Europe in terms of E-Waste.

Process
My initial concept was slighty different from the final product. I originally had a more illustrative feel, but I felt that it didn't give enough technological feeling. I started off will brainstorming some features after I decided what information I was going to work with. I then drew up a rough idea of the layout, which was inspired by arcade buttons.

I then drew up some more detailed sketches. The red squares with images within them were suppose to represent the numbers in the graph and were suppose to be incorporated in the bar graph. I originally wanted to have a pixel effect and wanted them to light up.

The last 3 images were orginally what I planned to execute. The first image represents the default layout. The second image represents the change of layout when the title from the navigation is clicked. Last image shows what happens when the yellow button that represents Canada is pressed.

This concept is still similar to the final, but the final is much simpler. Here is the wireframe of the this concept: [|e-waste-module (functional aspects).swf]

Final Result
My final concept for this project was to give an electronic kind of feeling. I decided to communicate it through LCD typefaces, slot-like effects, buttons, and with a simple grey and red palette.

Here is the default setting. When the swf loads, the title, subtitle, map and numbers light up. When you hover over the red arrow button it will light up red.



Onclick the subtitle will change with a slot like effect, and it will also load a new layout. The graph bars will shoot up, everything else remains the same until the buttons the graph are pressed.

This is how it will look like after everything loads onclick. The numbers will gradually appear in a slot-like effect. The map zooms up and a graph info box will fade onto the map.

Here is the link the the final swf file: [|2005p_pro03_08_dkien_V2.swf]

__E-waste Guide__. 05 Feb 2008. 5 Feb 2008 
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