For my thesis I would like to develop a Flash-based website that contains a step-by-step Design Your Own Floor Plan interface that users can use to fully customize and completely control what they desire in a home floor plan. It will be dynamic and fully responsive every step of the way so that the users can see what changes they’ve made at anytime and change whatever they want at anytime. There will be a Design From Scratch section and a Modify An Existing Design section. With this thesis project, I will show that it is possible, over a web based application, to develop a fully interactive and pliable system that lets a user create a viable and structurally sound architectural floor plan.
Here's a little background into it. Last summer, I took an online class in Interface Design. Pretty standard class. Nothing too intriguing in it. Since it was online, I didn't feel I got as much out of it as I could have. But anyway, the thesis came from there.
It's the idea from the comprehensive project in that class. We had to come up with a unique idea that used some type of interface. Very open-ended kinda thing. So this idea about a build your own floorplan site just popped in my head. I'd never seen one before and after visiting that acclaimed Converse Customize Your Own Shoe site, I thought, why not?
So, I developed the idea further, drew some sketches, wrote down new things as they came to me and came up with an interface design (a template, I guess) that did a satisfactory job and got me a decent grade. But it was no one near where I wanted it to be. So I just thought I'd hold on to the idea for some future date and kind of put it into the back of my mind.
Cue a couple months later and the requirement of thinking up a permanent thesis comes up. So I naturally pulled out the idea of the Architecture Site. I'm glad too. I was sweating earlier this year. Now I just gotta follow through with this and make something worth a damn.
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