JUSTINAS PREKERIS FINAL PRESENTATION
This presentation covers the most important parts of the research/designing/testing phases.
Research is mostly retrieved from the group and individual work, but I have also done additional research while designing.
For more elaboration visit:
https://girlsgaysandtheys.hotglue.me/?mappingtheuser
https://girlsgaysandtheys.hotglue.me/?mapping%20the%20collection
https://girlsgaysandtheys.hotglue.me/?research_justinas/
https://girlsgaysandtheys.hotglue.me/?justinastesting/
IMPORTANT RESEARCH FINDINGS:
1. Queer games are really community-driven, but there are not enough safe spaces for queer gamers available.
2. Queer gamers (10 percent of all gamers) needs safe space, because the non-queer gaming community is toxic and homophobic, and queer gamers do not feel safe there.
3. Web archive is not user-friendly at all. It is not intuitive and it does not have clear guidelines.
MAPPING OF THE SELF // MAPPING OF THE USER
50 SIGNS COLLECTION
FINAL INTERFACE: Queeria
Queeria is a mobile phone application for queer gamers. In this application, you can find a collection of fan art communities where queer gamers used to take shelter from the homophobic and toxic non-queer community. In this application, the homophobic non-queer community is portrayed as villain Goombas. In the application, you are exploring different fan art communities with the guidance of Mario. Mario is educating you, telling you important facts about certain communities, and guiding you through the journey. User experience is gamified.
In this archive, you have two levels:
1. Community forums (desert land)
2. Community blogs (grassland)
To pass the level, you need to collect the coins by exploring the communities. When the coins are collected, you are going to a next level, where you also need to collect the coins. In the end, when the coins are collected, Mario thanks you for the journey of exploring the communities.
ADOBE XD LINK:
https://xd.adobe.com/view/94f67f84-d2d3-475c-8c74-f9291cdca8a7-c1a5/?fullscreen&hints=off