We looked at user interface design, and to help understand this we did an UI Card to make us think about the guidelines that make up a good interface, meaning we had to consider, text, images and icons and understand their function in an interface and present these in a clear and easy to understand manner. To begin our card were based on song tracks, this had to contain an image for the song, the track title, the artist, a description of the song and buttons as well as icons for social media and a like/favorite icon. This was verily simple to do as much of it was finding the appropriate content for the card. The main design aspects I had control over was the colours, font and alignment of the content, which was simple to do as there wasn’t too much content to play around with as we were limited to the amount of info at this point. For the colours I simple chose a green colour that closely resembles the colour in the image, so that there’s consistence in the design of the card, to help with this I also tried to each a similar font to the one used in the image, it wasn’t exact however it was still appropriate to the song as it was scientific themed.

After this we were tasked to expand our cards to the feature the album and this involved much more design as it was to include more features, such as a play bar. Although I had a pretty clear idea of how I wanted it to look, I still went and looked at YouTube music and Spotify to see their interfaces, as this helped me understand what an actual designers thought was the most appropriate aspects to include and how they deemed the most understandable layout to look like. Looking at other interfaces also helped me with including small but helpful details that they include that I hadn’t thought of, like a shuffle button near the top for users to easy just shuffle songs, rather than having to go through and select a song. For my design I added more colored part to clearly contain certain parts such as the title and play bar and overall make it more visually appealing. I had to design with the idea that the interface was being using hence I included details the play time and a bar to visually show this. Another was highlighting a song with a light colour to show that it is that particular song being played.