Interactive
Coral reef
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Role
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Research
Visual research
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Design
responsive website and emails
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Development
responsive emails
No water, no life. No blue, no green.
Sylvia Earle
What
An illustrated interactive experience about coral reefs, human ecology and collaborative structure built through user-generated design.
The coral reef project is an interactive project that was born out of my curiosity about aquatic enclosures in zoos. Part of the ocean is basically presented and contained in “box”. This triggered my interest in the relationship between humans, animals and the ocean.
This project required me to study Marine Biology and Ecology as well as Interactive Media and Design, Programming and User Experience Design.
On my first round of exploration, there seemed an emphasis on companies rather than what the individual can do. This led to the following research question
How can interactive media be used to effectively educate and how can it be used to bring awareness to coral reefs in a more engaging manner?
How can researching existing campaign sites, information graphics, other interactive media and user experience design be used to come up with an appropriate style, structure, and feeling for this interactive experience?
Overall there is a lack of awareness about oceans and coral reefs as habitats. And thus the aim of this project is to educate and bring awareness of corals, coral reefs as habitats and the impacts of human activity on reefs through interactive design.
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