Eric Decker : : Dynamic Persuasion 2007

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 upon the majority of the users on Last.fm, which has similar functionality to my site.
With that said, I made the site more geared towards the indie/folk/alternative crowd. Right now the site feels a little too feminine, and that’s due to having the pastel coloring and script font. However, it doesn’t bug me too much. I might like to still incorporate the pallet changer, so there can be options for people who don’t like it.

Image Issues:
Safety Cropping – Some images have random bordering, such as a 1 pixel thick line on the right. To compensate for this, I think I shall crop the image inwards by 99% to remove any garbage left over from cropping.
Making the program design randomly – Rather than just have things arranged totally randomly, I want there to be a loose grid structure. So there could be, for example, two rows of three. The items in the rows might have random rotation, but I will make it so that it looks less random by having it alternate the way it slightly rotates each image so they sort of zig zag. (For example, if there are four images in a row and the random for the rotation of them are 8, 6, 7, 5; then the images will be rotated 8º, -6º, 7º, -5º.)