The user testing on this project was an ongoing process as the website was built. I had several testers on the website after the functionality was set up but before the design was even started. As I designed and built interface elements they would be able to tell me if it worked or not. By [...]

The target audience for this project will be “gamers,” mainly males between the ages of 16-30. A gamer is someone who plays video games, as quoted from “Historically, the term “gamer” usually referred to someone who played role-playing games and war games. More recently, the term has grown to include players of video games. While [...]

The site will have to be user friend as the user will be the one to enter the content, I have devised several methods for the site to be automated when content is added, for example if an image or image gallery is added light box will be applied to the images. Another issue I [...]

The navigation design will mainly focus on the social network aspect of the site, the main focus of the home page may be on video game news and article, but at its core this site is about social networking. This main navigation will be placed at the top of the page and be accompanied by [...]