FYI-Net Network Resource Kit

To the right is the main menu to one of FYI-Net's first commercial ventures, the Network Resource Kit. I was Project Lead, part of the interface design team, and the primary programmer on this project.

The program's objective was to teach the user about networking in an immersive and engaging environment while providing convenient web links to hardware and service vendors. This Authorware program included a high-resolution movie player supporting the latest Quicktime codecs and an Active X web browser. (This was actually very impressive at the time that it was done.) The Web Browser is shown to the lower right, displaying FYI-Net's homepage at that time.

Upon entering any lesson section the user was greeted by a visually stunning movie which introduced the basic lesson concepts, and provided with an exploratory environment where they could click on different components of a scene (which glowed and were identified at the bottom of the screen when hovered over) in order to get more detailed information. One of the clickable environments and resulting informational popup are shown below.

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