Attached is my project 2 checklist.

Here's an online copy, a copy was also emailed to you Kevin.

CompGE's project demonstrates how to create navigation bars and buttons for use on web pages. Upon completing these quick and simple tutorials, you will be able to create these graphics for web use. Below, you will find the link to the Project Proposal and a like to the Usability Test. Attached you will find the instructions, revision memo, and another copy of the Usability Test.

Project Proposal:

http://www.digitalparlor.org/sp08/mckelvey3/node/1285

Usability Test:

http://www.digitalparlor.org/sp08/mckelvey3/sites/digitalparlor.org.sp08...

Our plans have progressing in a timely manner. We need to do our usability test on a peer group sometime this week and take the feedback from the group and try to implement it into our instructions. I need to add an introduction and summary to the instructions to make them complete and coherent. Currently, my partner and I have different seperate instructions. We are going to combine our instructions and have a similar format so it feels like the belong together more than they are currently. Other than that, it looks like it will be a good week and Project Two will soon be completed with success.

Our instructions are coming along nicely and on schedule.  We do need to do our usability test for a peer group either tonight of tuesday.  My portion of the instructions need to have a summary added to them since I plain forgot that I didn't have one.  Then we need to aggregate our instructions together and probably pick a format so that the whole document flows together well.  Finally we also need to integrate feedback from our test into our instructions.

Here we go, trying to shake off the spring break laziness and get back to work.  Surprisingly, a lot was accomplished.  I got down to business and did reading assignemnts on Monday and got started with completing what is assigned for Wednesday.  My partner and I got contacted eachother via AIM and got down to completing the drafts for the instructions.  We also completed the usabality test so that we could let others test our instruction drafts and receive feedback. Hopefully we will receive good feedback so we can make corrections where needed.

I had a very productive week this week.  I finished up what was left of the instructions, and I proceaded to do a massive overhaul of the formatting.  When I had finished the instructions it looked like someone had just barfed words and pictures on a page.  I went back and eliminated some of the more conversational aspects and made discrete, bulleted points.  This made it much more professional.  I also made some conventions for bolding and italicizing so that users could find things easier.  Then Nate and I put our parts together for the draft.  I realized after reading the reading responses that I had completely neglected to include a summary.  I will certainly have to rectify that situation if I want people to know what they are getting into.

Attached you will find the complete instructions draft of how to make web buttons and navigation bars in Adobe Photoshop along with the usability test. Your feedback is greatly appreciated.

This week in our project, my team member and myself made individual instruction drafts for the illustration instructions project. Since we are covering two different tasks that can be done in photoshop, I took the task of making menu buttons for web use and my team member took making a navigation bar for web use. We will use the feedback that we receive to improve and complete the drafts. We made a usability test for our individual illustration drafts to test if what we have done can acutally be followed by someone that looks at it. We will also use the feedback that we receive to improve and complete the usability drafts. Compared to the past, it seems like this week has been the most work that I have put into this course. I'm sure I will say that again as the semester continues, but I hope not too often.

Another productive week for the team. I worked on the draft of the instructions, at least the first part of them. The rest will come over the break. We certainly will meet the minimum and most likely go over. We've had great communication and teamwork thus far and we should prove fairly successful at finishing the project. We also worked up a test of usability draft to show how to test our instructions. I hope that our instructions help someone out, I know that they could come in quite handy.