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As I am designing for kids and not for adults, I must reset my mental intuition roughly about 12 years in order to think like a child. Asking myself simple questions such as “If I was a child, how would I engage or want from an app?” This is beneficial but nowhere near enough and…Continue Reading IXD301 – The Definitive Guide to Building Apps for Kids

Storytelling has been present throughout the ages and the digital surge of the 21st century has created an evolution in the mode and nature of storytelling. With technology now prevalent in the majority of households and classrooms, alongside it’s increasing ease of use and affordability for users, storytelling tactics have seen a rapid expansion. Important…Continue Reading IXD301 – The Effectiveness of Digital Storytelling in Children Article Review

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Optional Choice Teenagers or Children? What have I picked Children? I have stood on this question for a short while – figuring what pathways I could take for either children or teenagers. Since Kyle announced this deliverable, I have been swaying towards creating this project for children as it can be seen by me as…Continue Reading IXD301 – Element Project Idea Generation – Brainstorming & Mind Mapping Ideas