Jeremy Ku's Project Journal

some colour mixes i was not as satisfied with when they dried....

Tue, 11 Sep 2012 15:19:25 +1000

some colour mixes i was not as satisfied with when they dried. more similar to the more vintage pop art colours, i was aiming for more modern brighter more saturated tones

Colour theme to my artbook. My artbook will be guided by one of...

Thu, 06 Sep 2012 10:44:00 +1000

Colour theme to my artbook.

My artbook will be guided by one of the complimentary palettes in on of the quadrants. It will be compiled of 6 images on separate pages (4 shown in image) so there will be some variance and combinations to make the other 2 pieces.

Photo

Mon, 04 Jun 2012 03:14:26 +1000

Chalkd app

Mon, 04 Jun 2012 03:05:00 +1000

Chalkd app:

Optimized for Firefox

About #chalkd

Mon, 04 Jun 2012 03:04:19 +1000

Chalkd is a social way to find and play sport with people in your community. As someone who enjoys sport and friendly competition, there is very few opportunities to play socially within my social network. Therefore an app was conceived to expand my network to local members to play socially. By combining the data sources of Google Maps, Google Places and Twitter API

For best results, send a tweet with the #chalkd hashtag from your twitter smartphone app.

How to use Chalkd?

To find players near you, share your location when asked and click and drag on the chalkd icon on he chalkboard to the area you would like to to play. You can expand and retract your radius to maximise or minimise your search results. When you’re happy with your area hit ‘Search’ in the top panel. You can narrow your search query by adding phrases after ‘#chalkd’ in the field bar such as soccer, basketball or football. Your results will come up on the pinboard and the thumbnail on the stickynotes will correspond geographically to the thumb on the chalkboard.

Microsoft BOB Like the very familiar interface we use everyday,...

Sun, 03 Jun 2012 18:53:00 +1000

Microsoft BOB

Like the very familiar interface we use everyday, there is a design metaphor that was adopted to represent how we organise and find files and folders on our desktop computer. The interface has since evolved to a more simplified and aesthetic form, however the initial analogy still holds true.

Design Mock-up

Mon, 28 May 2012 01:04:00 +1000

Design Mock-up

My inspiration for my design interface. Taking the design...

Sun, 27 May 2012 20:04:00 +1000

chalk & cork board

black, white and cork board

My inspiration for my design interface.

Taking the design principles of the humble community notice board used in households, offices, school and in communities alike is the hybrid integration of the 2 most practical ways of leaving messages to yourself and others. By using a chalkboard as a canvas to write or draw mental reminders and a cork board as a spread to attach small memos and notes.

This design analogy was utilised to embody the key elements of my website interface. Chalkboard represents the graphical representation of the locative map while the cork board represents the feed where requests are fielded and displayed.

Google Maps Issues

Sun, 27 May 2012 12:11:00 +1000

So I’ve been having difficulties getting my Google Places and DistanceWidget markers to show up online, however my page locally through firefox seems to work after i installed a manual geolocation add-on.

CHALKD LOGO I have created the concept of my logo combining the...

Sat, 26 May 2012 15:46:00 +1000

CHALKD LOGO

I have created the concept of my logo combining the following elements

∆ Blackboard background (for obvious reason) to contrast the white chalk
∆ Chalk tally to represent the “HA” in “CHALKD” and also to symbolise the social competition between users
∆ Megaphone outline symbolises the open platform of the service
∆ Speech bubble outline represents the social media input of Chalkd and express the requests of everyone and anyone
∆ Jersey font is aesthetic of typefaces on football jerseys to give the logo that sporty edge

professional blarg: Fake your geolocation in Firefox 3.5

Thu, 24 May 2012 21:01:55 +1000

professional blarg: Fake your geolocation in Firefox 3.5:

blargasm:

There are many reasons why you would want to fake your location in firefox. One good reason would be “un-faking” your location on computers with no wlan cards, e.g. at work, or where there’s no data available for the WLANs around you. All you need for faking is a text file (eg. ...

i decided to switch from yahoopipes to using google maps to...

Sun, 13 May 2012 18:25:00 +1000

i decided to switch from yahoopipes to using google maps to incorporate google places as a third data source (not yet implemented in this version).

Still trying to work out how to filter feeds via sport. I intend to have the tabs function to filter certain keywords (ie. hoops, basketball, bball). Alternatively I think i may offer suggested sport searches as a dropdown.

Recreational Park Activites

Thu, 10 May 2012 11:10:00 +1000

Recreational Park Activites:

a possible candidate for my 3rd data source if GooglePlaces isn’t as effective as desired. still keeping with the social aspect of sports are activity programs that are generally FREE. to access my target market i will narrow search result to young adults and higher, an omit childrens

hopefully will be able to use rss feed to map out key locations around brisbane if no #chalkd request have been posted.

chalk textured background icons for different category...

Sun, 06 May 2012 20:51:00 +1000

chalk textured background icons for different category searches

just photo-shoppped some some action shots for football, basketball and soccer
- haven’t decided if i’ll include any other sports. (there will be an ‘other’ category to search for other sports)
- i endeavoured to use action shots that were passing (advocating team sportsmanship) rather than shots of goal/jumpshots to emphasize the social aspect of the service

WIP - twitter/map api still some bugs even with the first mock...

Sun, 29 Apr 2012 22:37:00 +1000

WIP - twitter/map api

still some bugs even with the first mock being very temperamental

playing around with mashing up multiple yahoopipe sources. got the basic idea of my interface so far, just a matter of creating more customisation.

checklist of things yet to do

modify detail descriptions on map flag/ list notes
link list to centre on map
categorize list into separate sports (soccer, touch, basketball, SEARCH)
arrange list into square thumbnail icons
style css

for pdf version access via Cloud

Fri, 06 Apr 2012 00:33:29 +1000

for pdf version access via Cloud

Wireframe Inspiration

Thu, 05 Apr 2012 02:17:18 +1000

Concept Ideas

Wed, 04 Apr 2012 16:31:50 +1000

Hoops.Turf.Net - An integrated website using GoogleMaps and Local council information to find local sporting fields, parks, courts and more. An extensionand/or alternative of this service may offer users the option of creating open-community games for anyone in the area who are interested in playing with others.

The Creative Commoner - is a search engine that aggregates images from various databases such as flickr, gettyimages and xchange for licence-free images

Preview.Review.Buy - A search tool used to source items of interest where users can:
view Youtube previews of the product;
visit review sites (cNet, ProductReview);
and then purchase the product (eBay, GumTree)

7 Cool “Mashup” Websites - What Are Mashup...

Wed, 04 Apr 2012 00:56:07 +1000

7 Cool “Mashup” Websites - What Are Mashup Websites?

Thousands of web mashups with new updates daily

Wed, 04 Apr 2012 00:55:09 +1000

Thousands of web mashups with new updates daily