Me designing a website in time lapse
Categories: Design, Information Architecture, Open Source
This was an interesting little experiment for me. It was an idea I got from filming myself take a motorcycle apart and playing it at 3x normal speed.
I found CamStudio which very effectively recorded all my on-screen movements, and in Movie Maker (I’m a web designer, not a video guru), I stitched it to some video from my Sony Handycam. Threw in some nice music and put some titles and credits in.
Here’s the result.
what program are you using to mind map?
Nice video. What mind mapping application did you use?
This is great!
What’s that 1st piece of software you’re using? (for the IA)
Very interesting! Thanks for sharing!
Hey everyone, thanks for the nice comments.
The mindmapping software is called Freemind – http://freemind.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/Main_Page
This is awesome. What I really want to know is did you have to cut out a lot of parts when capturing all your movements? Like when I’m working I will do a little, check an email, do a little more, answer an IM. Do some more, check Twitter. Did you do that or were you totally focused when working on this?
Hey Brad, yeah I normally operate like you mention. For this exercise however I did it in one bash. It was really done balls to the wall. Otherwise the file size of the video is huge!
Looking at the design (I did this a while ago and only published recently) it’s also a bit unrefined and hastily done. Embarrasing really
Regardless I still follow a similar process. Sometimes the paper doesn’t get involved, but most of the time it does.
Its great to see how you work the magic. Amazing.
Great work, is there a link to the final comp you produced?
Thanks.
Hi Max, not at present. No reason for me not to I guess. Expect an edit some time soon.
Excellent workflow in Fireworks, i didnt notice layers-menu
Thanks Mikko. Yeah, oddly enough, in Fireworks I tend to work blind to a degree. I’ll always clean it up when passing it on to a slicer dicer, but while designing, I tend to use CTRL+UP and CTRL+DOWN to arrange layers. SHIFT+CTRL+UP brings to front, and SHIFT+CTRL+DOWN sends to the back. I can work hella faster that way.