In order to refine my initial sketches and ideas, I want to look into some visual research and inspiration. I’ve decided to create a Pinterest board focused on infographic designs that appeal to what I want my own to be styled similarly to, that I can take influence from. What makes a good infographic? Here … Continue reading “IXD104 – Infographic: Design Research”
After coming up with a variety of ideas and mind maps, I have decided the topic on which to focus my infographic on. Violence Against Women I feel very personally attached to this topic, being a young woman myself and growing up with many female figures in my life who have faced violence and harassment. … Continue reading “IXD104 – Infographic: Chosen Idea & Research on Topic”
Style guide The physical or digital document that represents the styles, patterns, practices, and principles of a design system and teaches how to use it. Pattern library An organised set of related, reusable components, often containing code examples, design guidelines, and use cases. A Pattern Library ensures a consistent user interface. Big sites are developed … Continue reading “IXD103 – Style Guides”
During Monday’s class, Daniel tasked us with compiling an inventory of elements of an interface of our choice. A list of items we were asked to include were: Navigation – Primary, footer, interactive component controls, etc. Images – hero banners, logos, illustrations, photographs, thumbnails, backgrounds, animations, Icons – static, interactive, social medias, etc Buttons Headings Advertising Colours For … Continue reading “IXD103 – Interface Inventory”
For this Master/Apprentice exercise, we were tasked with reproducing two bar charts of varying styles. Out of the two, I much better enjoyed the look of and the production of the second bar chart, as I feel it matched the kind of style that I want to go for in my infographic – professional and … Continue reading “IXD104 – Master/Apprentice: Bar Charts”
During Monday’s class, we took a look at portfolio sites, and the components that are necessary to make up a portfolio site. We were also given several tasks to complete to begin the development of our portfolio sites. SWOT The SWOT task was used to determine our strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats in terms of … Continue reading “IXD103 – Portfolio Sites”
During Monday’s class, another one of our tasks was to choose five words from our personal branding, and sketch out ways to represent them visually. This would help us define a visual marque, which we will be using in our brand. Here are the sketches I managed to come up with: Professionalism Creativity Passion Reliability … Continue reading “IXD103 – Visual Marque”
For this new project, we must create an infographic based around a specific world-related subject. Essentially, it could be anything. I have a few ideas already that I want to begin jotting down in the form of a mind map. The brief is as follows: With a focus on raw data, facts and figures, your … Continue reading “IXD104 – Infographic: Mind Map & Ideas”
Research We were asked to produce our own business cards using the monograms and overall branding identity we had created over the past few weeks. I used Pinterest to create a board around business card designs. I chose to include a variety of minimalist business card designs, as that is the style and feeling that … Continue reading “IXD103 – Business Card Research & Development”
Our next task was to begin development of our wordmark. To begin, I first wanted to research and find some existing examples of wordmarks that I could take inspiration from. I created a Pinterest board based around wordmarks that I liked the look of. I tried out a variety of fonts to display my name. … Continue reading “IXD103 – Wordmark Research & Development”