- Conduct task
analysis amongst the textile design staff to determine which features
could be incorporated into a collaborative textile design tool.
- Integrate findings
from the survey concerning Information Technology. Discuss implications
of the research with regards to the culture of artists and designers.
- Design an application
which will support the marketing and design process between designers
and buyers of design incorporating the functionality examined above.
It will be able to interface with suitable video-conferencing and
application sharing product.
- Design a functional,
yet distinctive interface that reflects Central Saint Martins. It
is important to retain the main Windows conventions but to substitute
the traditional 'grey' components with more inventive features.
It should have an appreciation for the technophobic attitudes of
art & design culture and should contain metaphors that closely
mirror the studio environment thus relying on familiarity rather
than an understanding of how to use a computer application.
- Develop the
application and interface described above using Microsoft Visual
Basic.
- Report the
above research at a suitable conference and/or journal.
- Release the
software into the public domain or hand over the prototype for development
by interested software developers.
- Examples of
the user-interface as it currently is configured:
- Working tools
include: selection tools, zooming and scaling, draw and paint. Repeat
functions for textiles, colour reduction and replacement, palette
building.
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