Wireframes, Mockup, assorted updates
So I'm still not exactly sure what I want my thesis to be or what the purpose of it is :/ I really just want to create a beautiful data vis of a baseball game that shows the symmetry and rhythm of a game while providing an easy to understand view of the games outcome. In order to do that I need to provide a way for users to get to the exact game they'd like to view. This process could be as simple as compact menu or several screens of options. While considering this I also realized that there is a large amount of season based data available that may be interesting to users, possibly moreso than individual games. Today I did some simple stuff I needed to do like update my data for the 2009 season in MySQL, but I really dived into some actual layout stuff as well, something I've been avoiding mostly due to the fact that I'm not exactly sure what I'm doing. I feel like this has been encouraged by the thesis process, talking about things until you hate them and never really doing anything, and I also feel like thats not the way that I work. I'm really excited to just make stuff even if I'm not sure where exactly its going, because I tend to have my best ideas while working on ones I'm not crazy about.
Below are wireframes for a basic interface for my application, as well as a simple design of what this might actually look like once it is styled. The wireframes are an important step that I tend to skip sometimes, and they help me to concentrate on the layout and interaction of the data vs the actual design. This saves time because I can see obvious issues before I waste time designing them for real and realizing they're not working. I'm not crazy about these so far, I need to dig into them further, but it is a nice feeling to actually have touched the pen to the page (metaphorically speaking) and got something started.
Below are wireframes for a basic interface for my application, as well as a simple design of what this might actually look like once it is styled. The wireframes are an important step that I tend to skip sometimes, and they help me to concentrate on the layout and interaction of the data vs the actual design. This saves time because I can see obvious issues before I waste time designing them for real and realizing they're not working. I'm not crazy about these so far, I need to dig into them further, but it is a nice feeling to actually have touched the pen to the page (metaphorically speaking) and got something started.
