http://www.dp2007.eric-decker.com Projects and research from New Media Dynamic Persuasion 2007. Thu, 29 Nov 2007 22:46:36 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Since Dynamic Persuasion is over, I'll be no longer updating this blog. You can view my other projects from the quarter, plus any new ones I am working on at my other WP blog: http://labs.eric-decker.com.  The layout and design it temporary, for when I redesign my portfolio site I'll redesign ... http://www.dp2007.eric-decker.com/?p=69 Case Study: Using Amazon’s WSDL First I downloaded the package from Sephiroth.it that handles all the SOAP, which you can get here: http://www.sephiroth.it/file_detail.php?id=112. You’ll get a few files, the most important ones being the PHP files, since that includes all the SOAP stuff that I vaguely understand, let alone be able ... http://www.dp2007.eric-decker.com/?p=68 Wow I just realized it's been almost a month since the last post, well, not really but whatever. Project 3 is 'complete' and working. There were lots of issues, such as getting the correct information from Amazon and the royal pain of security settings. RIT seems pretty fucking anal about ... http://www.dp2007.eric-decker.com/?p=64 Here's the prototype for Coda: http://www.eric-decker.com/projects/coda/proto.html This prototype allows you to submit a list of artists, as well as optional Last.fm data, to Amazon. You'll be returned a list of albums by those artist from within the however many last months you tell it to (6 by default). I ran into ... http://www.dp2007.eric-decker.com/?p=59 Another set of comps for project 3. Audience & Appearance: Ideally the audience for this website would be any age that prefers any genre. But most likely, the demographic will be mainly 18-25 year olds who's musical taste probably falls somewhere in the indie rock, folk, alternative category. This assumption is based ... http://www.dp2007.eric-decker.com/?p=55 Here are some comps for project 3. The user will be able to pick from one of four color schemes. The navigation is handled thought the wheel, which is abstracted off of a record, or "compact disc" to today's kids. There are three sections: View, Manage, and Change Colors. Manage ... http://www.dp2007.eric-decker.com/?p=48 Here is the basic flow chart for project 3: I have two ideas for project 3 as far as design style goes. The first one is that the user can scroll through a list and on the left there are CD jewel cases that move in 3D space. Here is an ... http://www.dp2007.eric-decker.com/?p=44 Project 3 concept The Problem: It can be difficult to keep up with all your favorite bands, sometimes it is not until a moth or so after they release a new album that you find out about it. The Solution: My website will allow users to create an account, for which they ... http://www.dp2007.eric-decker.com/?p=43 The concept for project 2 was changed to make it more doable in the time frame we had to work on it (which was more or less one week). The concept was that studies show that people find faces beautiful based on symmetry. We of course know that is ... http://www.dp2007.eric-decker.com/?p=41 The requirement for project 2 is to have users upload an image. Now make something cool with that. My project will have two stages, the second one will be implemented based upon time to complete the first one. Additonally , stage 2 requires stage 1 to be in operation on ... http://www.dp2007.eric-decker.com/?p=36