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 * Week 9: exercise 1**

My Word and dictionary definition:

comfort noun 1 a state of physical ease and freedom from pain or constraint : room for four people to travel in comfort. • ( comforts) things that contribute to physical ease and well-being : the low upholstered chair was one of the room’s few comforts. • prosperity and the pleasant lifestyle secured by it : my father left us enough to live in comfort. 2 consolation for grief or anxiety : a few words of comfort. • reassurance : they should take comfort that help is available. • [in sing. ] a person or thing that gives consolation : his friendship was a great comfort. • a person or thing that gives satisfaction : I felt a great comfort in the relationship of the moon to my astrological sign. 3 dialect a warm quilt.

My mood board

Sketches



So I decided to go with more of a home comfort feel with a playful touch. I attempted to make it look like a doll house to further emphasize the home like feel to things because I have fond memories of home time comforts with my doll house. The version that I have up here isn't my final one I have to make some touchups to the front page to make it look less ugly and more like a cartoon-y doll house. Also the fireplace sketch isn't working and I don't suggest clicking on it because it crashed safari every time I try to test it there are obviously some things that i need to try and fix. I also need to add what types of interactions they act have below. Current Prototype

FINAL PAGE HERE Best viewed in safari =]

So this is my final page. I tried to achieve a feeling of homey comfort with my splash page and sketches. I had some difficulties with processing, especially the fireplace sketch. It would only work sporadically and when I exported the sketch and opened it in safari it would crash the browser. I wasn't able to get the sketch to work while I was recording my screen so I had to settle with taking the video and just putting that in the popup window. I also couldn't get HTML 4 to put in a quicktime player properly so I had to use the video tag from HTML 5 so it only works in safari. I was also playing with the concept of the splash page being like a doll house which is why everything has a very illustrated look to it because I felt photography was too sterile and as a child I really enjoyed my doll house.