Description
Inspired by "Ana Galvañ. There is surveillance on the road to ensure public order and personal safety; cameras are installed in shops to prevent the loss of property; cameras in communities are installed to ensure that there are no suspicious persons who enter and exit. in the online world, we are also being monitored. All kinds of information and speeches from users have been used by technology companies to research user behavior and getting controlled. Based on that, I got an idea of creating a chat platform to help people talk freely on the internet.
Design Process
When started to do this project, I thought about the function that 4chan has, the function that makes the comment only stay on the page for a few hours or a few days. It seems that is a good way to get away from surveillance. Thus, I implemented something similar to my project. When opening the chatroom, any click will bring the user to a colorful box. When user typing on the screen, the words will ben hidden to a large number of tiny colorful codes. The background color was inspired by op art, use the 3 dimension shape color change hide the text. I used four arrow keys on the computer to allow the user to change the background color, which also increased the difficulty of others to see the current words. However, of of the keys will able to let the background color become ligher and allows the user to see the words. The user who wants to let other see the conversation, he/she needs to press the key before writing text. Once the other see the message, he/she needs to press any other arrow key to hide the message. It can make sure that only the right person see the text in a very short period of time.To make this function run, I used different blendMode for four keys,
↑ Upwards Arrow (The one can see text )
Blend mode LIGHTEST. When you want other to see text. push this button first to make the background lighter. After the background change, you can insert your words to make them show on the screem.
↓ Downwards Arrow
Blend mode DIFFERENCE. When clicking on this key, it will instantly loss some part of the color, which makes the background color too bright to see the text (since the text color is white as well).
← Leftwards Arrow
Blend mode MULTIPLY. This will multyply all colors together, which definitely makes the background darker than before. It will increase the diffivulty of reading the text.
→ Rightwards Arrow
Blend mode BURN. This mode will increase the contrast and ignoring the light colors. Aslo add some difficulties for reading text.
Reflection
I really enjoy doing this project, which is inspiring and also essential to the current internet world. However, The one thing I would like to ass probably is to add a password function to makes the conversation more private.