LV3X Project 4 – Task 3 research

Research:

www.windhillorigins.co.uk. (n.d.). Bradford Canal history. [online] Available at: http://www.windhillorigins.co.uk/familyhistory_files/bateson/bradfordcanal.htm. 

This link will go to a website which has information that is related to a location that I am using in my project. 

disused-stations.org.uk. (n.d.). Disused Stations: Bradford Exchange Station. [online] Available at: http://disused-stations.org.uk/b/bradford_exchange/index.shtml [Accessed 30 Mar. 2023]

This link will take you to a website which has relevant information of the Bradford exchange railway station that I can use in my project 

‌c20society.org.uk. (n.d.). Listing saves pioneering Bradford Sports Centre from demolition – The Twentieth Century Society. [online] Available at: https://c20society.org.uk/news/listing-saves-pioneering-bradford-sports-centre-from-demolition [Accessed 31 Mar. 2023]. 

This like will take you to information about Richard Dunn which I am including in my project. 

CK Architectural Leeds. (2020). History of Bradford Architecture. [online] Available at: https://www.ckarchitecturalleeds.co.uk/history-of-architecture/history-of-bradford-architecture/ [Accessed 31 Mar. 2023]

‌This link will take you to a website that explains the history of centenary square 

I have used these research sources to help me to avoid historical inaccuracies with the locations that I have chosen. Not only this I have made sure not to use sites such as wikipedia to gather research as those types of sites can be changed.

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/07370024.1997.9667241 This link will take you to an article on what makes a good effective map design that people could use. The reason why I have used this as research is because it will help me in creating a design that isn’t cliche but is designed to an industry standard that people could use. This is a positive because its discussing how to avoid a bad map design and ways to make the map design more effective.

Create HTML5 Canvas documents in Animate, https://helpx.adobe.com/uk/animate/using/creating-publishing-html5-canvas-document.html. This link will take you a website which has insiteful information about using the format HTML 5 in Adobe Animate and also the key terminology that is needed to understand the programming its self. The reason why I am using this site for research is because it is helping me to understand what key phrases are as well as how to use the format correctly to get the best out of the application.

Best way to create an interactive map with clickable icons https://community.adobe.com/t5/animate-discussions/best-way-to-create-an-interactive-map-with-clickable-icons/m-p/10033022 This link will go to a forum where they discuss the best and most effective way on creating a map with clickable icons. This has is relevant to my project as it also discusses the appropriate sizing of the buttons that they want to make interactive. In addition to this, the forum also discusses the best format to use to create the interactive map.

https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/2037373.2037458 This online article discusses how effective an interactive map can be and also explores how creating an interactive map easily accessible for people. The reason why this article is relevant to my research is because it discusses the many ways to present the interactive map and also the disadvantages of only using one format of media to present it. I have made this relevant to my project because it has helped me in choosing the form of media I want to use to present my project on.

https://dl.acm.org/doi/fullHtml/10.1145/238386.238438 The same webiste alos has a page which discuesses the different forms of interactive maps and compares them to other mas. This is relevant to my project becuase the site discusses how to make an effective interactive map that is easy to use but also with insiteful information on them.

This video continues discussing how to embed ing interactive maps into Adobe Indesign. This is relevant to me because I have had issues publishing my project through Adobe Indesign and this video is relevant to my project because it is discussing how to link the map and how it responds within the application to ensure it works before exporting the project for use online.
This link will go to a video which explains how to create an interactive map. I used this tutorial to help me understand how Adobe Animate works as well as what format to create my map with E.G. HTML 5. The reason why I have used this tutorial to help me in creating my project is because of the way its been explained as well as being easy to understand. This video is relevant to my project as it will help me understand HTML 5 format as well as understanding the basic of Adobe Animate for creating an interactive map.
This video is relevant to my proeject as it discusses how to create a map using Adobe Animte, Adobe Illustrator and also exporting the application in a different format to get the best quality from the export. The reason why this is relevant to my proejct is because its helped understanding motion pathing as well as making the buttons the correct size on the project. In addition to this, the project is relevant becasue it is showing me a different process to export the project correctly and also showiing how it works online.
This link will go to a video where they explain how to export HTML 5 formats to the web. This is relevant to my project as it will help me understand how to export my project from Adobe Animate to Adobe Indesign to then make it compatible with the web as well as being able to function on the publishing website.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=2FVbYuJq1fM

This video is a tutorial of how to create buttons using Adobe Animate as well as how to link them. The reason why this tutorial is relevant to my project is because it will help me with understanding how buttons work within Adobe Animate. In addition to this, this tutorial is relevant to my project because it is explaing as well as showing how to create buttons within Adobe Animate.
For this research after creating my project I took it back to the same people and got them to give me feedback on the project. A positive of this is that I am able to see where improvements can be made for example making it more obvious that the project is about the history of Bradford. Another positive about the map that I made is that I fopund that people found it easy to use this is a positive because it means it can be easily used by anyone who wants to find out about the history of Bradford. However, a negative of the feedback is that some people didn’t know it was about Bradford because of the postion of the title of the map as well as tagline. Another negative of the map that I got from the feedback is that the images are too close together menaing that sometimes the images would pop up if the mouse was near more than on of them. To overcome this issue if I was to do it again I would scale the hitbox down on the images to make it look more organized.