Research Before I started creating my wire frames for my website, I decided to do some research on some other single-paged websites. I chose three websites to review. The first website was called Kocha Studio (https://www.kocha.com.au/). At first glance, I was automatically drawn to the bold header which took up around 50% of the screen…
Group Presentation
Group 5 Presentation For this second project we would be put into groups in which we had to develop a Design History Presentation based on one of the topics we were given. I was in a group with Emma, Sarah and Laura. We had decided that we were going to choose the Design Systems for…
Pocket Profiles – Week 6
Pentagram Design Studio (Giorgia Lupi) Giorgia Lupi is an Italian information designer and a partner at Pentagram based in New York. She has a master’s degree in Architecture and PhD in Design. She co-founded Accurat and is a co-author of Dear Data and Observe, Collect, Draw – A Visual Journal. She is also a public…
Pocket Profiles – Week 03
Una Kravets Una Kravets is a Brooklyn-based web developer. She is a Developer Advocate at Google Chrome and was previously the Director of Product Design at Bustle Digital Group and worked on building maintainable design systems as a UI Engineer at both DigitalOcean and IBM Design. She also co-hosts two web development podcasts called…
Pocket Profiles – Week 02
Jakob Nielsen Jakob Nielsen, Ph.D., is a User Advocate and principal of the Nielsen Norman Group which he co-founded with a former VP of research at Apple Computer, Dr. Donald A. Norman. Before starting NNG in 1998 he was a Sun Microsystems Distinguished Engineer. Dr. Nielsen founded the “discount usability engineering” movement for fast and…
Follow the Rhythm Project
I had decided that my project was going to based on lyrics from a rap song because rap is one of my favourite genres of music. Before I decided on the lyrics, I wanted to research some graphic rap design to get some inspiration. I had looked at different types of graphic design related to…
Follow the Rhythm Research
For this project I have to take a song that I like, and I am required to present the lyrics in a manner which is appropriate to the music and singer/group in question. For example, if the song is punk-influenced the style would be similar that of the Dadaists, Jamie Reid or Barney Bubbles. If…
Week 05 – Introduction to User Interface Design
UI Card Exercise This was the UI card which I created during class. I used Figma….
Week 04 – Typography and Colour
For this class exercise we had to redesign a single letter, two-letter combinations and the Ant Middleton text. For the single letter I chose an S because it is the first letter of my name. I used the font Righteous. I added white triangles to the ends of the letter and put a white stripe…
Week 03 – Core Principles
In week 3 we looked at a range of core design principles which we can use to develop the foundations upon which we can build. This included the Golden Ratio which is a prime example of the Fibonacci sequence. The Fibonacci sequence exhibits a certain numerical pattern which originated as the answer to an exercise…