the collection website featuring my dad’s model trains and my little doodles is now complete. check it out here.
all aboard the collection website
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website group mid crit
-unpin sun on laps page, make transparent
-rollovers!
-show order some how on sorting pages
-figure out vertical scroll issue
-love illustration style
-pixely rollover nav box
-tree growing out of car?
-change up hierarchy of info graph with title of train
-color? NO.
-tracking, mile marker?
-add about and info graph index to navigation
-home is a personal blurb, pictures, maybe conductor doodle
collection website beginnings
after photographing the trains on their actual scale tracks, i created some doodles to contrast with the realistic photographs. the drawings bring in the whimsy and quirky feeling that i intended for the feel of my collection website.
infograph sketches + wireframes
infograph sketches//
wireframes//
sitemap //
sorting
in class sorting activity//
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- type of car
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- manufacturer
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- manufacturer location
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- age
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- model scale
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- rail company
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- color
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- per$onal value
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- length
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- laps around christmas tree
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- crashes
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- purchase location
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- type of assembly
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- favorite ranking
“that’s my life savings”
next for information architecture, time to construct a website around a collection of items. i’ve got my hands on some of my dad’s model train collection. i sat down with him and wrote out some facts for each train.
