In accordance to my last critique, I will be re-designing both my logo and my colour scheme. Development of New Logo I want to create something that stands out more, and can be linked back to the app. I really liked some of the logos that people had designed in class, where people had made…Continue Reading IXD303 – New Logo & Colour Scheme

Today’s critique class allowed me to look at my own work in a new light, through a new pair of eyes. I don’t know if I really like the direction my app is taking. I was really excited about using an interesting and unique colour scheme, but I really don’t think it works well with…Continue Reading IXD303 – Updating My Brand

During Kyle’s lecture today, he spoke about using physical resources such as magazines and newspapers as inspiration for our work, and how Vogue uses such a great layout that would be interesting to see on screen. I decided to look into this further, and investigate both what Vogue magazines looked like in July 1969, and…Continue Reading IXD304 – Research: Vogue Magazines

In today’s class, Kyle talked to us about the story of eBooks, involving what an eBook is, how to create one, an InDesign eBook walkthrough and storyboarding. What is an eBook? An eBook is a non-editable reflow-able book that is converted to a digital format to be read on any digital device such as computer…Continue Reading IXD304 – Week Seven: The Story of eBooks

For today’s class, we were asked to create a PDF slide deck on our health app project so far. In this slide deck, we had to include our: brand name logo user personas brand guidelines initial wireframes three screens demonstrating final design The following is the link to my presentation: donnan_jessica_IXD303 During today’s class, we…Continue Reading IXD303 – Week Seven: Group Critique

Today in Paul’s class, we got into groups and did a miniature version of a design sprint, for which we creating a solution to busy a&e departments in hospitals. Design Sprints A design sprint is a time-constrained process that uses design thinking, when creating a new product. Th process has five stages, and five separate…Continue Reading IXD303 – Week Six: The Design Sprint

Our next step in the process of creating our websites is to create a prototype on Figma, which I have been building and working on in the previous weeks through my research, sketching and mock-ups. I used these mock-ups on Figma to begin adding animations and interactions, and placed my designs into a suitable frame…Continue Reading IXD304 – Prototyping

In order to get a better understand  the needs, goals and behaviours of my target audience – those suffering from IBS – I am going to create a set of fictional characters that will represent these sectors. These will be my user personas. Before beginning, I need to think about all the things I want…Continue Reading IXD303 – User Personas

Today in Kyle’s class, we explored how narratives can be used in print and film. We explored: The Blurring of lines… We looked an animated intros and how these can be used to set the scene Creating a World We looked at work by Simon Wild and Annie Atkins who design assets in graphic design…Continue Reading IXD304 – Week Five: Narratives and Print in Film

Today’s class was all about content design, and how to properly use and map out content within a site or app. Everything is Content Typography shapes words Loren Ipsum serves no one gov.uk VS gov.ie Creating an easy user journey Users can easily find what they are looking for Government Digital Service start with needs…Continue Reading IXD303 – Week Five: Content Design