PNCA Thesis Completed…

My formal design education at PNCA has come to a close and as of May 25th I will be a college graduate. Each student at PNCA creates a thesis work for their last project in school. We have to present a proposal describing what we intend to do then over a 16 week period create the work. For my thesis work I created a web site about the experience of fighting testicular cancer, something that I went through over the last year. While the experience of going through cancer was no fun the work I created about that process was. Check out the work at www.fightingtesticularcancer.org.

The site is intended to help men that face testicular cancer find their way though the treatment process. The information I included was less of a medical nature and more about what a man could expect. When I found out I had cancer I found a lot of useful information about the treatments I would go through but little to no information about what it would be like. I took on the challenge of creating a site that explained that in more detail.

As a part of the thesis process I did a presentation about the work to a group of my teachers and peers. I spoke about the work for about 45 minutes then answered questions about it for another 30 minutes.

Speaking in front of people has never been easy for me but in this case I was very comfortable. I talked a lot about the over all design of the site and the different decisions I made when creating it. On the whole the speech went very well.

I had a great time creating this web site. It was very difficult at times but the outcome was worth all the hard work. The site was created entirely in flash and this was my first time creating a site in this way. If you know anyone with testicular cancer, send them here. It could really help them through their difficult experience.