Links to the Original Website

These are the links to original pages of the TMMC website, related to my wireframes' examples:

http://www.tmmc.org/juniormembership/mystery.html

http://www.tmmc.org/juniormembership/rs.html

http://www.tmmc.org/juniormembership/kids.html

My Wireframes' Development

With everyone's comments, My work has been improved...

I fixed my disadvantages and added some features as you can see. :)

Class Feedback "Presentation"

I'm pretty happy about my feedback last class.
I got lots of good critiques and suggestions to improve my website's visual.
It's really encouraging.

Thank you everybody. :))

My Wireframes

Homepage

Scrapbook Page

Learing 4 R's Page


Kids Helping Seals Page

Do It Yourself Page

Class Feedback

I just wanna tell that for a person, like me, who has never had any background knowledge for using Photoshop before, it's really hard to achive the goal. Even though we study a lot through Lynda.com about how to use photoshop for the website, it's still hard. Since I don't know how to use very basic tools. Therefore, I took long time, trying to create something. Finally, I gave up and decided to use Illustrator to draw my wireframes. I really hope that the teacher would teach us how to create a website deeply in the class instead of having presentations... :((

My Site Map

This is my site map for the "Kids for Seals" website from the marine mammal center. It is very detailed but I abbreviate it in order to look easily. :)

My Connection Between Personas

Since I got a contact from the Marine Mammal Center, I have changed my mind about the connection between the personas. Jim, my point of contact, said that the website ((my project)) will change its name from "the Marine Mammal Center: Just for Kids" to be "Kids for Seals".

I think my focus will be on kids...more than adults. So my three personas are gonna be kids who love marine mammals and wanna know more about them and kids who are suggested by their parents and their school teachers about the marine mammals through the website. Of course the website is still sophisticating enough that can make the parents and the teachers think that it's gonna provide their children or students much of knowledge as well as fun for kids. :)

Class Feedback

I have a little problem from last class because I did not understand the homework very well. I did my three personas extremely different so I couldn't find some connections of them. However, through the critiques and time-spending until the rest of the class to figure out the connection, I finally found it. :)

I think the connection would be all of my three personas, a kid, a mother of a child and a elementary school teacher, love activities, seeking for fun and wanna spend their free time usefully.

"Kids for Seals" Poster

Mood Board for 3 Personas

3 Personas ((Redo))

Billy is a chubby boy, aged 8 years old. He is a big bully at school. He likes to pick on weak students to call for attention. His parent is divorced and now he lives with his alcoholic dad. He needs to be responsible for himself and needs to help some of his dad's work. Only one thing can help him relaxed is to play with secretly raised homeless cat that always comes to his backyard. Deep down, he loves animals. He dreams of being a veterinarian someday.

He lives in San Jose and he has heard a lot about San Francisco and its very famous place, Fisherman's Wharf, Pier 39. He's never been there before, even though it's not to far. So he went to the school library, surfs the Internet to find pictures of it. He founds pictures of cute sea lions and a link to lead him to "the Marine Mammal Center" website.

Michaelle and Magan, living in Sausalito:

Michalle, aged 36, is a single mom and a business woman who doesn't have much time for her housework. She earns over 500,000 USD a year and have a house maid to take care of everything in the house, including taking care of Magan. However, whenever she has a spare time, she will spend it with her kid. Since she doesn't have enough time to bring Magan out, she always teaches things such as why birds can fly, why fish needs to be in water and so on to Magan through the Internet. She finds many sources to teach her kid: for example, Google, YouTube and the Marine Mammal Center. Besides, Michelle is a ver clean person who takes time for washing hands for over 5 minutes and love to eat French food in shiny restaurants.

Magan, aged 5, is a smart girl. She knows how to use computer very well, mostly from her mom. She loves to chat with her friends online and loves to type rather than write. She even types faster than some of adults. She loves to eat cereal, loves to collect expensive dolls and loves to create customized stuff such as cards for her mom. She dreams of being Aurora, the sleeping beauty from a Disney fairy tale because she wants to meet a prince charming someday.

Benjamin is a primary school teacher aged 52, living in Sacramento. He teaches the subject of Social Sciences. He is a quite strict teacher but actually he is kind. He is married but doesn't have any children. His routine is the same in everyday. He quite have a boring life. He loves to spend time for reading books and watching TV with his wife. He goes to a church every Sunday. He has been living in the same house for over 22 years so every one around there knows him. He is pretty friendly and always volunteers for public social work. He doesn't like cats because his wife is allergic to them but he raises a talkative parrot.