Month: February 2021

We’re having a group critique next week on our first 3 travel app screens so it made sense that this week ‘s lecture was all about tying everything things together app wise. We first looked at all the principles of user interface. We also looked at important things to consider like touch screen target sizes…Continue Reading IXD104 Week 5: Lecture Reflection

Research I learned a lot about interfaces from week 4’s lecture. I would still have to do some research before developing my travel app screens though. I started by looking at the anatomy of different app components and when to use them on material.io. This gave me a good understanding of what bars, buttons, menus…Continue Reading IXD104 : Developing my first 3 travel app screens

Digitising Monograms Before we went into the lecture content we were given a quick illustrator demo and tasks with digitising our monograms (and word marks if there was time). We were given the afternoon to work on this and then we all came back and uploaded what we did to padlet for critique. Here is…Continue Reading IXD103 Week 5: Lecture Reflection

Since I want my app to have a fun and playful feel to it, I thought I would try to incorporate cute faces into my icon designs. Based on my initial sketches for my travel app I decided that I would include icons spread across the bottom of the screen for the five main sections…Continue Reading IXD104 : Designing my travel app icons

During this week’s lecture we were given a quick tutorial session for illustrator and were tasked with digitising our monograms. I found this tutorial quite helpful as even though I’ve already gotten quite familiar with illustrator over this term already, there were still a lot of things I had yet to learn that we covered…Continue Reading IXD103 Week 5: Digitising My Monogram

This week’s lecture was all about illustration in UI. We looked at what it means to illustrate, tips for sketching interfaces, what illustration in ui should be as well as the different practices of it and some of the different types o illustration for ui. We also to a look at some of the past…Continue Reading IXD104 Week4: Lecture Reflection

Visual Identity This week’s lecture was all about developing visual identity/ marque. One of the first things that was touched on was the importance of being unique and distinguishing yourself from other designers with the traits that set you a part. There were some things I hadn’t considered before like how this can actually help…Continue Reading Ixd103 Week 4: Lecture Reflection

  During Monday’s lecture time we were given 2 tasks . Task 1 The first was to sketch listed objects using the drawing techniques we had looked at in the lecture. The objects listed were an iPad, laptop, camera, sketchbook, pencil, browser, usb stick, paper, television and a radio. Here is what I did:  …Continue Reading Ixd103 Week4: Sketching Tasks

Illustration Reproduction Task  This week we were tasked with another master/apprentice exercise but this time with a city illustration instead of  travel icons. This time I used illustrator as I’m better at using the pen and curvature tools on there than Figma. Here is the original that I tried to reproduce: and here is what…Continue Reading Ixd104 Week 3: Reproduction task + travel app illustration inspiration board

Here is the mind map I did to start together my brain to come up with a good travel app idea: From this  I decided to base my travel app around food since I had the most ideas for it. When I go on a trip abroad I love making plans around what cool restaurants…Continue Reading IXD104 : Travel app mind map + my concept and initial sketches