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Found on Smashing Magazine: Free Wireframing Kits, UI Design Kits, PDFs and Resources. This is a very large collection of templates for creating wireframe documents for an assortment of platform, including mobile devices. Useful for the WDIM student planning out that big interactive project. Exerpt:

“In this post, we’ve prepared an overview of useful web and mobile user interface kits, handy PDFs and resources that you can use in your projects. We’ve carefully selected the most useful kits and resources to get you going in the early stages of a project.”

Description

This project is more conceptual in nature and seeks to challenge (and possibly exploit) traditional notions of storytelling. The story generator plays on humans’ natural tendencies to create stories out of the world around them. This isn’t storytelling in the traditional sense. The user is the “storyteller” and we are creating the pieces-parts they need to tell the story.

The goal for this project is to create an interactive story generator that builds a story as the user moves through the piece. Each time the user interacts with the generator a different story is formed. This is not “Choose Your Own Adventure” but something more conceptual. “Testimony: A Story Machine” and the Story Wiki are possible examples. Classic Dungeons & Dragons might also be an example. read on »

Found via the Webby Awards:

• HBO’s It’s More Than You Imagined: http://www.hboimagine.com
• We Choose the Moon: Celebrating the 40th Anniversary of the Lunar Landing: http://wechoosethemoon.org/

These are two interesting examples of using interactivity and interface design to tell a story. Thanks to Dustin for pointing these out to me. There are other interesting sites at the Webby Awards. You should check them out.

Pay special attention to Testimony: A Story Machine.

1. the London Underground one: 253
2. Boris Savitskiy’s Fromhellville Anthology: http://www.imagineboris.com/web/fromhellville/index.htm
3. Testimony: A Story Machine: http://www.myballoonhead.com/storymach.html

Next week we will begin discussing narrative as it relates to visual and interactive design. For next week’s class, please read:

• Boxes and Arrows Use of Narrative in Interactive Design: http://www.boxesandarrows.com/view/use_of_narrative_in_interactive_design
• A List Apart: Beyond Usability and Design: The Narrative Web: http://www.alistapart.com/articles/narrative/
• Boxes and Arrows: Visible Narratives: Understanding Visual Organization: http://www.boxesandarrows.com/view/visible_narratives_understanding_visual_organization

This week’s wiki words:

Week 6

• Capstone
• Inspire
• Smothering

For the complete list of wiki words, see the Story Wiki assignment post.