Now that I have a clear understanding of what direction I want my elemental app to go in I can now focus on sketching the first wireframes for it. Below you can see sketches for my brand and wireframes. The Brand For my logo, I tried to think of things that are all symbolic with…Continue Reading IXD301 – Logo Development, Element Wireframe Sketches and User Flows
IXD302 – Proposal Written Content
Project Proposal Title Page Client Company Name: Hill Street Belfast—- LOGO (Use if have permission or ideal) —- Project Title – Brand & Website Design of Hill Street Belfast Document Type – (UI/UX Proposal Version – 1 Submission Date – 04/11/2021 Company Name – CormacIXD Proposal Authors – Cormac James McCann Project Reference Number – 01 Confidentiality…Continue Reading IXD302 – Proposal Written Content
IXD302 – A Project Guide to UX Design
Beginning our new proposal deliverable, Daniel told us to read a book called “A Project Guide to UX Design”. For this project, we have to design a UX proposal (Website & Brand) for a nonexisting company which is Hill Street. What is the purpose of having a proposal? A proposal is a document that is…Continue Reading IXD302 – A Project Guide to UX Design
IXD301 – Sketching Elemental Stories
I created sketches showing the gradual story of each character. For this, I want to show them all interacting with their corresponding elemental object, e.g, Helium Heather plays with her balloon. My purpose is to interact with kids through immersive storytelling and personifying characters to create a compelling learning experience. I decided to create a…Continue Reading IXD301 – Sketching Elemental Stories
#IXD302 – Proposal Competitor Analysis
One of the deliverables for IXD302 is to create a website and brand proposal for a non-existential company named Hill Street which is a real location in Belfast located near the cathedral quarter. To begin my research I must analysis and dissect other local competitive websites in order to get a better contextual understanding for…Continue Reading #IXD302 – Proposal Competitor Analysis
IXD301 – Designing on Webflow
Before I start creating my website I have to create a few things to help make the process of building a website less sophisticated and more efficient. Thankfully, I have recently made a brand/style guideline for my website. I am using a lot of the material from last year such as colour scheme, typography and…Continue Reading IXD301 – Designing on Webflow
IXD301 – Instagram Task
For week 6, we learned all about promotional strategy and discussed things such as social storytelling. This brings us to our current task that Kyle has set for us which is to showcase our portfolio website on Instagram through stories and a post. Creating the story When creating an Instagram story I need to create…Continue Reading IXD301 – Instagram Task
IXD301 – Digitising Wireframes for The Element Project
With any project it is important for me to get a clear and straight understanding of the product that I am designing, for me, this means creating digital mock-ups or in this case digital wireframes to clarify each design choice of my interface is justifiable and reasonable. Colour Codes Turquoise – Elemental Backdrop Pink –…Continue Reading IXD301 – Digitising Wireframes for The Element Project
IXD301 – Elemental Symbolism & Character Development Moodboard – Pinterest
For my intended app, there is a big emphasis on the attributes and symbolic references of my characters meaning they will be all symbolic in everyday human-made objects e.g. helium = balloon. In order to present a visual representation of my ideas towards a certain element, I will be creating mood boards of each individual…Continue Reading IXD301 – Elemental Symbolism & Character Development Moodboard – Pinterest
IXD301 – Element Exhibit at Ulster Museum
In week 7 one of our tasks was to explore the recently composed elemental exhibit located on the third floor of the Ulster Museum beside Botanic. I decided to go to check it out as it could give me some ideas or extra knowledge about my project and the periodic table. Despite coming…Continue Reading IXD301 – Element Exhibit at Ulster Museum