once I had a rough idea of what I wanted my webpage to look like, I decided to play about with the colours of each section. I wanted the colour scheme of my essay to be blue so I alternated the background colour of each section to be a dark blue and a light blue. […]

our goal for this week was to finish our essay webpages and then upload them to Github for Kyle and Pauline to view. I found this quite a stressful experience as I wanted my webpage to look as nice as possible without being too much and I think I am eventually happy with the final […]

I wanted to expand my research of UX/UI companies around the world to gain knowledge of the career field I plan on going in to. As of December 2020, Clay is considered the number 1 UX/UI Design Agency. Clay is a UX/UI design and development agency based in San Fransisco. Their key clients include Slack, […]

Todays lecture was on the “Brief History of the Future”. Kyle told us about ways in which technology is constantly is improving, and how we can now purchase products that we didn’t even know were possible to create a few years ago. Products like this include, wearable smart watches, such as an Apple Watch or […]

Our task for Friday is to finish typing our essay and then use our coding skills from ixd101 to create a website for our essay. To do this I used the structure of our ixd101 ‘Baskerville’ task to help me create the correct layout. I thought this task would be very difficult as I have […]

For todays class we explored how to add a Grid of pictures or information onto our websites. I struggled with this in the beginning as my HTML and CSS file would not link together, meaning the whole page wouldn’t work on the server. however once we got that fixed it became a bit easier. the […]

as our essay is going to be formatted on a website, it is very important to create a wireframe and help plan what the website will look like and how the essay is going to work. I chose a very simple navigation so that is flowed easily and made it very easy to read. there […]

This week we were able to start adding tables and images to our Baskerville webpage which was exciting as it further made its come alive and begin to look like a proper webpage. by adding images and tables to the webpage, it spaces the main body text more, making it more visually appealing as well […]

For our next task, we have to write an essay based off an influential person of our choice from a list of designers. I chose to write about Tim Berners-Lee  as he created the internet and I felt there was lots to research and write about as I am genuinely interested in the subject. I […]

Once I had researched some artists and found that I liked Paula Scher’s bold typographic style the best I decided to start designing my own lyric poster. First of all, it was important to select the lyrics from the song which I wanted to feature on. I decided to choose the chorus of  “The Nights” […]