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HTC Sense Stories
Launch Site
Fi became the global digital Agency of Record for HTC in late 2010. One of the first projects they created together showcases the innovative features of HTC phones with the help of several small illustrated stories.
Agency: Fi
Year: 2011
Role: Flash Development
Team: Fi's dev team
Interactive Stories
Fi wanted to showcase the innovative features of the new series of HTC phones in the most emotional way possible. A series of interactive stories lets the user interactively experience those innovations rather than just being told about them. Part of my role on this project was to take the Flash illustrations made by an animator and then add the interactive layer to it. Each HTC innovation has its own unique interaction, like flipping a phone to mute its sound or for example smoothly dragging a map across the phone's screen to showcase HTC's unique map features.
HTC Sense World View
The HTC Sense stories live in their own little world, that we created for this project. In order to get to the individual stories located in different parts of that miniature world the user can spin the globe. Not only was this a cool and emotional way of navigating to the different stories, it also allowed us to create an XML based method of easily adding more stories and locations that could seamlessly integrate into the site and its design without affecting any of the existing animations and their functionality.
Localization
Being the innovative leader in the global market that HTC is, the site needed to work in a multitude of languages. Producing voice over narration for each story would not have been the smartest choice, so Fi created the stories in a way that they could work without narration. On the one hand this is achieved through the stories' concepts, that are self explanatory and work on a very visual level, but on the other hand it also is achieved by the text that can be seen in the stories. This text can easily be localized, but the difficulty (and part of my job) is to time the text correctly within the story so that the user has enough time to read it comfortably, but without the text feeling like it's delaying the flow of the story.