Kenny J Smith

My redesigned mediazone can be found here -> http://kennyjsmith.com/mediazone/mediazone.html

The best way to demonstrate my ideas for the website were to experiment with the layout and saleability of the web page.
It ending up becoming a bit of an extreme example of no blank space and has ended up looking too busy and a bit tacky.

Perhaps the ideal website would be inbetween my busy dynamic tacky concept and the current dull empty yet usable mediazone.

To spice up the new website a bit, I steered away from the original design and developed a new layout based on the golden section.

The current mediazone website’s underlying systems work fine, so I focused on giving it a new visually dynamic look.

The main features of my design are

• no blank unused space
• a more interesting navigation system
• a rss feed for news

While research different avenues to consider in redesigning mediazone, I have been reviewing other websites.

Modest Mouse
http://www.modestmousemusic.com/ 

• Has a very dark colour palette.
• Uses elements of flash to give it some interactivity.
• Advertising in important focal areas.
• Content is html so it is searchable.
• To much information on one page.
• One long column no framed areas.

2Advanced studios
http://www.2advanced.com/

• Entirely flash.
• Intensely interactive.
• Different colour schemes on each page
• Style resembles a contemporary video game
• Content fits on the page with no need for scrolling
• Many frames with no clear hierarchy.
• Information overload, too many links and buttons.

Digital Media at AUT University (a competitor)
http://www.autdigitalmedia.ac.nz/

• A similar grid of squares to mediazone
• One tall skinny blogy column with wasted space on the sides.
• All the content on one page, stacked one on top of another.
• Simple site, focus is put upon the work.

University of Berlin
http://www.digital.udk-berlin.de/en/

• Has a login on the first page.
• Very empty and dull.
• it takes too many clicks to see anything

Kaliber 10000

http://www.k10k.net/

• A good colour palette.
• Well framed
• not too much scrolling.
• An up to date newsfeed.
• A running theme of pixelated patterns.
• Iconography simplifies the navigation.

Telematics is a new social form. Vlogs, Podcasting, txt msgng, rss, i-reporting are designed by the Use and by machine technologies that have found a need and an application: re-informing the experience of social events from the ground, the local horizontally.