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Adobe SDK Interface

Main page when the CD was inserted and launched. Clicking the arrow in the lower right corner of the screen moved to the main menu.

SDK Main menu. Each node of the spiral represents a content area.

SDK page. The main menu is repeated on every page for easy navigation from one section to another. The page menu links to PDF documents.

Assignment: Design a front-end interface to a series of Software Development Kits. Each interface was built in Adobe Acrobat and allows the user to access FAQs, White papers and other PDF documents relating to a particular peice of software.

Approach: Since these documents are the blueprints for building software I felt that architecture and related imagery would make a good theme.
Architectural blueprints, golden section diagrams and photographic images from my own library were collaged together to create the main illustration.

The main menu is the golden mean curve spiral which symbolizes perfect proportion particularly when building things. The main menu is repeated on every page for easy navigation from one section to another. The page menu links to PDF documents. The overall layout and architecture is very simple.

Front end in PDF format (378 K)