jw_speakup_architecture

=Architecture=

5 Ideas of Website
1. a collection of podcasts to listen to 2. an ongoing history of meaning (an editable dictionary of slang (eg cockney rhyming slang) 3. how to listen (a guide for university students to take lecture notes) 4. conquer time and space (an instructional guide to skype) 5. proper speech (an editable list of bad grammar - e.g. ain't)

Personas






SCENARIO AND SITE MAP






Wireframes
The first wire frames, I experimented with an 'unveiling grid.' Home page was one column, one row; about page went to one column, two rows, then the next page went to two columns, two rows, etc. It didn't turn out very good though: The strongest idea was to have header and main navigation, and side-sub navigation, and then the main content. These wireframes seemed to have structure the previous one lacked. I finalized this version, adjusting the lining and reducing the mock text:

=**Houston, We Have a Problem**=

So apparently, this website it not interactive enough. Back to the drawing board. Tears.

After re-evaluating my concept (step 1), I was entertaining an idea of a unviersal blog where people can post funny/awkward spoken antidocts they have overheard in public. I got this idea from Western University's student group, located [|here].

Although this was funny and a great time waster, I chose to keep to podcasts. I think this is a very valuable medium (the spoken word that is preserved through time and transmitted through boundaries) and although it can be abused/misused or just pointless, I think my passion lies in creating a website that hilights the strengths of podcasts/spoken word. This epiphany came after watching Saul William's performance at Def Poetry Jam, called [|Coded Language].

A Synopsis of new research/new perspective:
//Medium// - Voice //Aided in the Form of// - Podcasts //Current Leader// - Apple //The Problem with Apple:// [|Full article] [|another source: Open Secrets]

//The aims of my website:// LIST an accurate reflection of the listener's opinion of podcasts main page will be 3 top 10 lists of the website's users; this is will serve as a quick access to 'good' podcasts FILTER the podcasts to interesting podcasts; not open-platform for banal rants

//So, why is this version of my website interactive?// A user-opinion ranking of podcasts are generated by the website, snap-shotted monthly, and released as an RSS feed for users. (the ability to find and rate other podcasts will be available on the website too).

Some crazy quick sketches: