project two: an interface for interfaces...

Our second project is now fully completed, so it's time for a recap.

First, the directive given by Denise:

Project 2
Design an Interface for Interfaces

1. Select a genre of (designed) interface.
2. Parse the genre into a taxonomy.
3. Represent the taxonomy of the genre in some form.
4. Design an interface for accessing the taxonomy.
   
5. The outcome should foreground a point of view or commentary on the genre.

We took some time to decide on the genre of interface we wanted to work with, had a discussion about some of the different options, and began to further define interface (the definition is still in a pretty constant state of flux.) I decided to work with Navigation Interfaces (think GPS, online maps, atlases, navigation systems on websites).

Then we did another round of super-free-word-association-funtime on iChat. I created two compositions with the results from the prompts about my genre in an attempt to organize my thoughts.





From here we went off to define, parse, categorize and make sense of our genre of interfaces in the attempt of making a taxonomy.