Using Figma, I began creating my wireframes and components of my app screen designs. As I said previously, it was at this point I decided to go back and rethink the look of my travel app as I wasn’t completely happy with the outcome. However, this process was still very useful as it showed me what worked and what didn’t, which was usually what I thought would work best. I found that my first design lacked some colour and was quite boring. I wanted to add some colour and keeping with the Ireland theme I felt green would be the best option. Using Adobe colour I created the colour palette for the new app design, keeping the golden colour from the harp as a secondary colour.
I explored the idea of using the gradient to act like a pint of Guinness settling, but I didn’t like the outcome of it as I felt it didn’t look that professional. But I also felt the plain white background was boring so I explored the idea of have different coloured buttons. My initial idea was purple, but I saw too much of a similarity to Dairy Milk so felt it would be best to change.
For these app screens I looked at using existing photography and adding filters on them on Photoshop to see if it created any interesting compositions. But after receiving feedback, I found that it wasn’t obvious what they were so this was one of the main reasons I decided to redesign. Also, I really felt that the over all look of the app looked vague and needed extra colour.
Taking a more illustrative and pulled back approach I took the previous idea of the Guinness settling and decided to have a pint glass split through two screens. The user would open the first one and then scroll down, similar to the drink settling, and the on the top is where they would start the ID process.
I am much more happy with how these designs turned out. Adding the extra colours gave me more options within my design and I feel it brings it to life more. The one screen I’m still not too sure on is the map screen as I am not sure if the composition works and if it matches in with the others as they are more simpler.