multimedia experience: task scenario

Expanding upon some of the ideas I wrote down in this post, here's a little website scenario.

So we start at the main screen. The script I have seems to allow you to define an image where you want the scroll to begin, so I think I'll have it start at the most recent point of the timeline. (This obviously isn't the most recent part of my design timeline, just an example of course.)



Hovering over the ziba milk images will let me know that clicking on them will get me a certain group of images. In this case it's the final designs of the ziba milk project.



Clicking this will bring me to a full screen image, with a little bit of information in the box on the left.



These images will also use a hot-spot scroll, except full screen instead of partial screen!



So it basically "enlarges" the images that are on the timeline.



I also thought that it could be done vertically...



But that's a pretty minor detail and I'm not sure what the significance of that change might be. Also, not sure how the script is going to respond at all to these overlapping scrolls, but I'm hoping positive thinking will make it work how I want it to!



You'd also be able to filter the images you're seeing, right now I have that being filtered by media, with the images on the timeline lined up by class. I'm not quite sure yet how I want to divide the site, but filtering them by media will basically take them off of the timeline if you don't have them selected on the bottom left.



And of course, the site scrolls horizontally along the timeline with a hotspot area, so you can easily move left or right. Clicking on the hotspot will make the site scroll faster.




Lining up the images, it's pretty easy to see how this might be a lot of scrolling if there's a good amount of work on the site, so I'm wondering if maybe some anchor links might help the user jump around more efficiently. I'm also not sure yet about the original "overlapping" of images I was doing in my original prototype, as it seemed to be contributing to the fact that I had all this extra scroll space on the end of the timeline, but it's just a matter of figuring out the problem.

Another feature I noted on the script was the ability to have more than one scrolling area, so I could have a bunch of timelines that scroll left and right. In terms of dividing the information like I talked about above: It might be interesting to be able to compare three different years, and be able to scroll left and right on all the timelines (you can compare October 2008 to October 2009). What do you think?