GRADUATION, I’M COMING! part 1
November 6, 2010
This is supposed to be a serial-postings several months ago. I just don’t have enough time, energy, and dilligence to write. But now I do…
Well, after I have been confused and panicked and prayed all nights to get topic for my final project, it seemed that God led me to research autism as a theme. (you may ask : “How did you know?” and I’ll answer : “I just knew.”)
So, there I was, wandered around Bandung, looked for some Foundation that treat autism problems. Until finally, my lovely lecturer told me to go to her psychologist, named Fridia. She is a psychologist that apply Floor Time as a development approach to the autism children.
What is Floor Time? Check it out in www.icdl.com.
I consulted the main focus, background, aim, and media of the Floor Time with Mrs. Fridia, the psychologist, and my lecturer, Mr. Alfonzo, who guided me as the advisor. The first main idea was “How to solve autism problems with multimedia” but then it got more spesific to the crucial problem which is ”How parents handle the autism interferance that their child have”. The reason why I choose the topic is because this is the first problems that comes when a child detected as a autism. Some parent may get confused, sad, and emotionally reject the reality. I know this is a sensitive case, so I have to take it seriously.
Well, after I have collected datas from internet, read books, and seen the crucial problem about autism, I picked the title. It is Guidance to Apply Floor Time as A Development Approach to Parents Who Have Autism Children Through Interactive Website (In Indoenesia : Panduan Penerapan Pendekatan Pengembangan Floor Time untuk Orang Tua dengan Anak Autis Melalui Website Interaktif).
It may sounds like difficult topic, but I have book “Children with Special Needs” to help me arrange the details, I have strict but kind psychologist to guide me with the accuracy explanations of Floor Time, I have wise and supporting lecturer who always gave me good advices and entries, and above al,l I have superpower God who always beside me, blessing my job, and make it perfect.
Days went by…
The concept was fixed. I choose house as the main concept because I want the user feels comfortable, relax, and knows that they are accepted (feels like in their own house). I targetted parent as the audience, the user, because they are the one who need helps. I want parent with autism child learn to accept their children just the way they are. I want they know that their roles are very important in children development. The main problems is not the autism children, but the parent themselves. So I just want to help parent handling the children interferances and make progress in their treatments.
I made the web interactively (which means the user can interact with other users), so they can share experience, stories, and give advice or comments. This is based on the opinion that tells people help anyone who sit on the same boat. I personally think this is good idea, because they can improve each other abilities to handle their kids.
Well, then I drew some sketches and started to design the web.
These were some first several drafts of the web layout…
I consider 30-45 years old parents as the audiences, so I choose the simplest web layout with a single-click. The layout is pretty clean and well- ordered. I prepared the informations in a good hierarchy and grid.
