Concept Board of Interactive Application

This is the concept board of my interactive application

Project Execution: Screen Design and Layout

Intro

Homepage

What is Joss Stick?

Story of Mr. Lee

The Process

Find Mr. Lee

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Some storyboards for the pages

Changes when mouse rollover to the buttons

When rollover to "chapter selection"

Example when the story playing

Content progress development:Design issues and treatment: Ideation and sketches

This is my ideations and idea development

Content progress development: Application’s Flow & Navigation

This is a rough idea of how my application's flow.

This is the final application's flow and sitemap

Mindmap & Background Research: Visual Gathering

This is all the photos that I taken during my trip to Penang. I combine all 94 photos into 1 image so that I do not have to upload the photos 1 by 1.

Mindmap & Background Research: Field Research

This is the interview of Mr. Lee. I record our conversation using sound recorder. The conversation is in mandarin and hokkien languages. So I transcribe it in English as shown below:

The sound recorder run out of battery after 34 minutes of recording. I continue to interview him by writing down the important points that Mr.Lee talked on the papers:

All the above is the research information I got when I interviewed with Mr.Lee. The information above is quite messy and some of it is repeated. Some of the information I got is not related to my topic, so I had reorganize all the raw data information above by typing them in the microsoft word.

Below is the organized research information:

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About Mr.Lee

Lee Beng Chuan
83 Years Old, born in 1928
Traditional Handmade Joss Stick Maker
Born in Penang
Making joss stick and selling outside of his house
Had been interview by a lot of magazines, newspaper and even showed up in Discovery Channel.

His Story:

His story started when he was studying in Han Chiang Primary School. When studying half way, Japan came to our country. He had to stop studied because of the war. At the age of 12, he and his mother had to constantly seek shelter from danger. After the war ended, because of financial problem, he can’t proceed his study. So he decided to start a small business. He saw people in the temple making joss stick, this catch his attention and he is interested in it. But no people willing to teach him how to make joss stick, so he observe and learn everything all by himself. He is his own master, he experiment himself on making joss stick. Through many trial and errors, he finally master the skill. His joss stick is different than the factory made joss stick, his ingredients consist of mainly sandalwoods powder. This is why his joss stick will give out a fragrant smell when burned. His joss stick is more expensive instead because of his ingredients, and also because of his joss stick is handmade. Making joss stick can’t make a living for him, as most of the people will choose to buy the factory made joss stick. And he can’t compete with the factory mass production. At his age of 81, he is requested by Teochew Association to make a 12 foot tall dragon joss stick. The joss stick is use for the celebration for the Han Chiang Teochew Ancestral Temple (which functioned as Han Chiang School before the war) during Chinese New Year. He accepts the offer since he knows this might be his last dragon joss stick. He feels very happy as he don’t know he will have the chance to contribute to his old school. But due to his old age, he know that he will face some difficulties when making this dragon joss stick. 12 foot height is too high and dangerous for and old man likes him. So he seeks for help from a joss stick factory in Penang. The boss of the factory asks one of his top workers to assist him in making the dragon joss stick. Both of them start to make the joss stick pillar. The joss stick pillar requires 3 layers since it has to be thick and strong. After making the pillar, Mr. Lee has to make the dragon sculpture on it. He took out his dragon sculpture he made when he is young, he observe them and reimprove them. At last, the dragon joss stick had success and in time for the festival. He is satisfy and very happy because he know that this will be the last dragon joss stick in his life. Until today, Mr. Lee still making joss stick outside of his house. He enjoys talking about his story, showing of his traditional crafting skill to the visitor. He said he will keep on making joss stick until the end of his life

About His Joss Stick

- Consists mainly of sandalwoods powder.

- High quality ingredients.

- Thicker diameter

- Different length, 6 inches, 12 inches, 20 inches.

- Give a very nice fragrant smell when burned.

- 100% handmade

- Different from factory made which only contain sawdust.

The Process of Making

1. Mix the sandalwoods powder and teja powder together.

2. Add some water and start to knead it.

3. Knead until it becomes dough.

4. Take a lump of the dough and put in on a bamboo stick.

5. Hand takes a little bit of water and start sculpting the joss stick.

6. Pull and sculpt by using the palm, not the fingers.

7. While the other hand constantly rotates the bamboo stick so that it will be even thickness.

8. After each joss stick is completed, let them stand in a tray.

9. Roll the joss stick one by one so that the surface will be even.

10. The joss sticks are then baked under the sun for 2-3 days.

Address of Mr Lee Shop House
No. 1 Lorong Muda
(Off Steward Lane)
Penang

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Mindmap & Background Research: Precedent Studies

Below is some of the Interactive Information Design Website:

http://explorer.monticello.org/
This website is about Monticello. Users can interact with the website to understand the about Monticello.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/interactive/timelines/british/
This website is about the history of British. Users can interact with the timeline below and check out what had happened in the history.

http://www.army.mil/gettysburg/flash.html
This website is about the battle of gettysburg. Users can know the information about the war, about the people who involve through the interaction with the website

http://www.wefeelfine.org/wefeelfine_pc.html
This website is about people posting their feelings. Each of the feelings is represent by a circle with different colors. User can read about other people who post about their feelings by clicking at the circles. A lot of interesting interaction happened when users click at the screen.

http://agencynet.com/
This website is about a company. But it is not just a plain company website. It is a very nice n strong concept website. The preloading screen is interesting too. User can interact with it and will not feel bored. The website is using the concept of a working office, user can click through the 1st and 2nd floor. We can click on the workers to explore the website.

http://ecodazoo.com/
This website is promoting eco-friendly. The website is an eco zoo. Users can explore the zoo "built-in" in the website and understand about animals and how to be eco-friendly. The interactions is fun and the design concept as well.