And so it begins. Choosing an angle for the app. You’ve got to look at different elements of who you’re designing it for, what they would require and how best to present that information. So I did just that in a brainstorm like all the cool kids do.
There’s plenty of obvious places for a mobile app to be implemented – think The Gadget Show Live or the Tate Modern gallery – where there’s more information that needs to be gathered on a personal level. But why would anyone need or even want to use a mobile app while they’re pottering around Legoland Windsor?
A new term, a new brief. It’s something a little different this time by way of a mobile app. The brief’s pretty lenient in terms of what you can do for it and what platforms it’s made for, so long as it’s done for visitors to an event which doesn’t already have it’s own app.
I came to the conclusion a while back that Microsoft’s newest toy the Kinect was the way I wanted to go for my major project in the third year. I thought I’d do something different and create something actually physical and playable by anyone rather than doing yet another web page. I can do those any time.
What turned out to become part of our site implementation of Spangles Speed Sprint started out as a little experiment of mine. Following suit of sites such as DailyBooth, how hard can it be to grab an image from your webcam using Flash and add a watermark to it? Turns out, not too difficult at all.