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Prentice Hall asked Cortex to develop and design a three-piece product, focused on American history, for an audience of middle school children. This product would accompany their current textbook and would be comprised of an in-depth review of the U.S. Constitution, a simulation game focused on passing a bill through congress, and a library of important primary sources throughout U.S. history. In the early stages this product was to be delivered via CD-ROM, but would migrate to online delivery through the Prentice Hall website. We kept this need in mind and housed the product within a custom built browser, based off of the Mozilla browser code, to better fit Prentice Hall’s needs. There were several design iterations and we discovered many functionality hurdles to overcome, but I feel that Prentice Hall received both an extraordinary and unique product that best fit the audience’s needs.

 

 

Exploring Primary Source’s in U.S. History could best be summed up as a card catalog of influences in U.S. history. We saw an asset and organizational challenge that incorporated everything from historic speeches to influential photographs. A scalable template design and a unique approach to navigation help the successful development of this product. My hats of to the programmer, or scripting genius, who calmly worked though my proposed navigation system. This piece also included flash based interactions to test the user. We used portions of templates designed for a previous project to help meet Prentice Hall’s desired timeline.

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Launch Constitution Beta

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