Digital Media Thesis

“But what about your original idea”

Those words, or others similar to them, were said to me in the past few days when one of my “test subjects” (AKA Kate) was looking at one of the things I had built. I had described my original idea a while back, and she remembered it… and (thankfully) was willing to tell me she was not finding what I had build to meet that goal.

I say thankfully because it was a great impetus to re-evaluated all of them and ask myself if I was meeting me original goals. It’s pretty easy for me to stray from the original point when building these sorts of enviroments in SL – I really find the building and scripting to be fun, so it’s similar to a big canvas and a fresh piece of charcoal.

But, again thankfully, many of my peices are on target, it was just the “HTML tunnel”  that needs some reworking. Which was the “original original” idea, so its not surprising that I’ve expanded and changed it a bit. But I reigned it back in and am QUITE happy I did…. it’s  immesurably better in it new (refocused) form.

More user testing is planned after everything is all put together. These will be the purest “here’s the SLURL tell me what you think” tests… which I hope won’t yeild too many questions!