Mind maps/Ideation processes I always forget the power of a mind map until I create one and then have that eureka moment. Mind maps mean you can visualise thought clutter and allow your brain to process it in a way that stewing in your own stress just doesn’t. This is what the inside of my…Continue Reading week 8 – (11th-18 Nov ) – User Scenarios | Site Maps | Wire frames

Displaying Content This week we touched on content strategy again, specifically the planning, creation, delivery, and governance of content. Kyle brought to light how Youtube, Spotify, Amazon, Apple, etc display so much content? We took a look at how they organise it. If we look at youtube they use a grid layout with side nav…Continue Reading Week 8 ( 11Nov-18th ) Designing with content | Displaying Content | Elements Research

Grids, Fonts, and Responsive Design Fonts It was good to take time away from the portfolio website design and come back to it with fresh eyes. Learning from the elements project, I feel I can take some of what I’ve learned and apply it to my site. Things like reading over the Heuristics have offered…Continue Reading week 10 – 25/11/21-2/12/21 – Portfolio Website Revisited & Conclusion

Research for Hill St. Belfast Brand Representation Project   Similar location brand representation sites Looking at similar site designs to decipher what they proposed and in turn what I will propose Cathedral Quarter Belfast I created a general content audit (below) for the Cathedral Quarter Belfast site to give me an idea of the framework…Continue Reading week 7 – (5/11/21-12/11/21) – Creative Entrepreneurship | Research for Hill St. Belfast

Research/Plan   research>plan>text design (content)>sketch>visual design (brand)>discuss>test>prototype/build   Deepa Mann-Klerr looked at using AR in a case study called ‘Talking Sense’ which ‘is an augmented reality conversation training tool that uses artificial intelligence technology to enable dynamic machine learning conversation processes with the aim of supporting parents to better understand the behavior of their children…Continue Reading Week 7 (4th-11th Nov ) Designing with content | Research & Plan

Elements Project Overview   I never thought I’d hear from the periodic table again after GCSE and yet here it is haunting me in the shiny new form of an interaction design task. The periodic table, though extremely useful, is extremely boring. It’s a table of chemical elements organised from lowest atomic number ( hydrogen)…Continue Reading Week 7 ( 4th-11th Nov ) Designing with content | Elements Project Overview | Task

Where I am with my Portfolio Site   The Plugin that I am using to capture this screenshot is not showing that the side nav at all times takes up the full length of the screen as it responds to the scroll ( this assumption is for each of the pages ). Compared to the…Continue Reading Week 5 (21st-28th Oct) Designing with Content – Portfolio continued/CSS Grids

Promotional Strategy This week we discussed how to use social media for storytelling, build relationships via content, and how to break our portfolio up into digestible content for a design social media. Social media is not only a way to engage with audiences and network but also a great way to show the process as…Continue Reading Week 6 (28th Oct-4th November) – Designing with Content – Promotional Strategy/Social Media/Heuristics

HTML & CSS – What is it?   While continuing with my portfolio design on webflow, this week we went over the basics of HTML & CSS as well as responsive web design. HTML stands for hypertext mark-up language and is a language for browsers. I don’t have much HTML experience but I have been…Continue Reading week 4 – (14th Oct-21st ) – Designing with Content – HTML & CSS

Salaries, Pricing, Invoicing In weeks 1-5, we discussed getting a job i.e perfecting our CV. The next step is to explore how to get a job and get paid for that job. From reading the proposal chapter last week I learned that the proposal document is an outlined approach to the job as well as…Continue Reading week 6- (29/10/21-5/11/21)Creative Entrepreneurship-Salaries | Pricing | Invoicing | Proposal Brief