I love this idea very very much :D The only thing thing that throws me is the color choices since they're kind of arbitrary, but otherwise I like it a LOT!!
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I love this idea very very much :D The only thing thing that throws me is the color choices since they're kind of arbitrary, but otherwise I like it a LOT!!
What do you mean? I was trying to stick with the color choices I have seen you guys using already... :hrm: ...maybe I missed the point of the blue/gold badges (the colors on those seemed arbitrary to me)?
But to me personally, blue says "completed" and yellow would be "in progress"...green could also be "in progress"
Originally it was just a solid text for a completed course, and whatever that color it was, half of it set to ~50% opacity to indicate that it was 'in-progress'. Professors' courses taught, though, were going to be gold- just to signify the expertise/topic taught. I'm just mentally in the mode where that makes sense, so your new colors threw me a bit hehe I still think that prof's should have their courses written in gold, just because people almost always consider gold as representative of "BEST". White for chalk would look good, or blue for DV, depending on if you want to go the opacity or the different colors route.
One more thing that I've just remembered is that with the forum upgrade we should have the ability to display the badges and things automatically through the site. I see still no word on when that update should occur, but as much as I love your design I'm not sure which would be easier/preferred as far as integrating it. Also, that way we could have icons linking to their explanations for people who have no idea what it means. We could just do this with one image via html linking to a thread w/ an explanation, though. I really do like your designs though- with a bit of tweaking I think it is much more aesthetically appropriate. I'm not sure what all the possibilities are, but if form vs function is not an issue, I love it :D
Aquanina, Great work. I really like the idea as well. The colors are a bit changed but Shift already covered that.
If there is a picture for each of the possibilities, there are many ! Especially when all the color changes come in. If there's a way to program the site to write on the picture by itself, it's possible, otherwise I guess it's just a incredible amout of work.
Ah ok Shift...yeah I had NO idea what those colors were originally representative on the original badges.
I wasn't thinking about the graphic in terms of, only listing classes someone has taken, but rather that everyone would start with the same image with all the 7 classes listed...and then when you completed a course it would sort of be "checked off" by being represented in a different color. I thought about adding tiny little checkmarks right next to the completed courses as well.
Sadly, I agree that it doesn't seem very functional, but I really just wanted to give a better idea of what I was envisioning because I knew I wouldn't be able to properly explain it without visuals. I am just not a fan of seeing a cluster of icons under someone's avatar...at least not unless they are really really well done. I don't have much experience with pixel art though, or else I would shut up and make some myself. :P
Maybe we should directly appeal to any pixel artists on the forum and beg them to make us some really sexy icons...otherwise I'd probably prefer them to be located elsewhere than under the avatars.
But hey, maybe we could use the chalkboard graphic for something else in the future. ;)
Aquanina, I think most of what you presented was great - we shouldn't throw it away just now. Maybe with some advice from programmers would help.