Week 7 (Summary)

2 week summary

• Redrawn the decorative element in flash.
• Keyframe erase animation complete. (I could not do a build keyframe because most of the drawing is curves. If I didn't draw the whole curve in one stroke then it would land up looking choppy.)
• Changed arrow animation by doing a keyframe erase.
• Completed new structure of tutorials with a title before tutorials.
• User study / testing.
• Redesigned the tutorial animation to make it easier to understand based on one user testing session. (User was having trouble understanding the tutorial, user could not find an easy visual cue as to where the 5 and 2 came from, in squaring 25.)
• Figured out out menu animation - functions properly with menu click, triangle moves on a curved path and also rotates. (Now, I need to update the code to coordinates of my design layout.)

Currently working on

• Detailed spec for the progress meter.
• Remaining tutorials.

Questions

• It would be great if you could go through that one 25x25 tutorial to see if it's easy to understand or not. If not, how else could I improve it? I have added a layer with the number 25 on it and when I am using the digit 5 it is enclosed in a rectangle.

All the files have been updated in the progress section.
I think at this point since I am done figuring out the main menu, my main worry is to make sure that the tutorials are understandable. The style of calculation is easy and I hope to create tutorials that are equally easy to understand. This is what is left in the project:

• Detailed spec for the progress meter.
• Tutorials
• Integration of tutorials with each other so clicking next will jump to the next one.
• Intro animation
• PreLoader animation
• Finalize menu

After my user test, I realized it might be a good idea to add a quiz solely related to the current tutorial (for example: squaring numbers ending in 5) after that set is done. But this quiz will have just about 2-3 questions and then it jumps to the next tutorial set.