Interactive Design

Interactive design was another project that I was looking forward to. I have enjoyed it much more than I was expecting this year. The brief was to create an interactive quiz that was enjoyable and fun. At the start of the project I thought about what I wanted my quiz to be about and what I wanted to be in the quiz. Initially I thought about having a “guess the intro” as this would be fun but also include lots of media, which would make the quiz challenging for me to create. I then thought that creating a pub quiz would be a better idea by having different rounds and making it more general knowledge. I thought about what I wanted the rounds to be and I decided on having a sports round, a history round and a general knowledge round. This means that the user has to have a good general knowledge to be able to do well in the quiz. I spent lots of time finding and researching the right questions. I looked through lots of online pub quizzes and general knowledge quizzes. When I started designing the slides I wanted to keep it simple, as the questions are quite hard. I wanted to make it a quiz rather than a gimmick so I went for basic red text and simple buttons. I thought about the buttons and wanted to keep it easy for the user so I just have buttons, which get you to the next round, and the start. I also had to think about how I wanted to end the quiz, I thought about having different endings for the different scores you got but thought that would be too difficult so I decided on just having a normal “this is your score ending”. The brief also states that the user must be able to see the answers so I also included a “cheat” button, which gives you the option to view the correct answers. To fulfil the including sound deliverable from the brief I have put a sound track over the top of the quiz. It gives a sense of suspense so gives the user a better interaction. Overall I think that the quiz turned out quite well. I think that it’s entertaining but at the same time it challenging. It is quite simple and I think that if I could do this project again I would include some animations and make it more fun and vibrant.