Coda was my final project for Dynamic Persuasion Design. Our assignment was to create a viral site that would offer a service, have a reason to make people come back, and be passed around. My idea is a site that you tell it your favorite bands and musical artists, and it tells you of any recent releases. To do so, it has to use information from Amazon.com, so I had to learn how to use the Amazon API. I ran into a bunch of technological snags in this project, and maybe that’s because I’m not really a hard-core programmer. I wrote a little case study that explains some of the problems I encountered, so if anyone else runs into them maybe that can help.

Project 2 for Dynamic Persuasion Design, we had a week to make a site that let users upload photos. Mine allows people to submit a photo, then based on points they place calculate how symmetrical they are. There is a theory that the more symmetrical a face is, the more ‘beautiful.’ A better way to do this would be to compare bitmap data by overlaying half the image over itself and compare using a difference blend mode, but that would be more ideal for a longer term project.

Project 1 for Dynamic Persuasion Design, a quick two week project that allows users to upload text to a database. A person can submit a dream they have had, look at others, and send their ‘post’ to a friend via. email.