Final Designs Starting off The image above is the basic background templates which I designed, I placed these first as I knew that the images and text would be easy to implement into. This also allowed me to compare my website design to my example design made in Adobe XD previously. Overall, I think this…Continue Reading IXD 304: Design Overview

Week 12: Final Critique Today marked the final day of lessons, we were required to have a final design of our website to present in class, I was happy with my design and was excited to see the feedback of my website design. As expected, I did prepare for my website to display this screen…Continue Reading IXD 304: Week 12

Week 11: Refining website design Before our final critique, I wanted to address the optimisation of my website, as I had designed most of my interactions within 1920×1080 I think it was in the best interest to restrict my site to this aspect ratio, in doing this, I implemented an overlay which would block content…Continue Reading IXD 304: Week 11

Week 10: Storytelling in Design This week we were greeted with a lecture by Big motive, this talk was based around the use of storytelling. This talk started off with an overview of how we can implement storytelling into our designs, The benefit of this was to allow us to better communicate with our target…Continue Reading IXD 304: Week 10

Week 09: Amplifying Data What is data storytelling? Data storytelling is the best way to use data to create new knowledge and new decisions or actions. It is an integrative practice that incorporates knowledge and skills from several disciplines, including communication, analysis, and design. It is practiced across many fields and is used to address…Continue Reading IXD 304: Week 9

Week 08: Guest Lecture · David Henderson Design This week we were introduced to David Henderson who is the owner of DHD design studios. They are a digital design brand studio located in Northern Ireland, their main functionalities are developing web, brand identity, film, photography, social strategy and animation In the beginning of this talk…Continue Reading IXD 304: Week 8

Week 07: The Story of eBooks What is an eBook This week’s lecture covered the story of eBooks and the many styles they can be designed in. eBooks can be used to tell a story in a book format and this can be made easier for someone to read when compared to a website, this…Continue Reading IXD 304: Week 7

Week 6 Group Critique The feedback on my project was generally positive view points, I agree with the recommended changes people are mentioning and I have taken these into account, the button sizes on the home page required a change as well as the text sizes. Old design By increasing the background border on my…Continue Reading IXD 304: Week 6

Week 05: Narratives and Print and in Film The blurring of the lines Based on feedback which kyle provided us about the Netflix logo, it appears that there is a background to this animation, as we can see that the N creates itself into a stand of books or cover flow design, this is known…Continue Reading IXD 304: Week 5

Week 04: Journeying Immersively Macro Interactions To begin the lesson for this week, we were introduced into macro and micro interaction and their use on the web. Based on what we were shown, we can see that micro interactions work on a page to page and section to section bases. These can be a useful…Continue Reading IXD 304: Week 4